Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Gulf Coast Hurricane 
Housing Recovery Act of 2007’’. 
TITLE I—COMMUNITY 
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS 
SEC. 101. FLEXIBILITY OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR ROAD 
HOME PROGRAM. 
(a) FLEXIBILITY OF FUNDS.—Subject to subsection (b) 
and notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the 
amounts previously made available to the State of Lou-
isiana under the Hazard Mitigation Grants program of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, $1,175,000,000 of 
such unexpended amounts shall be made available as pro-
vided in this section. The amount specified in subsection 
(c) shall be available as provided in such subsection and 
the remainder shall be considered to have been made avail-
able to such State under the terms of the heading relating 
to ‘‘Department of Housing and Urban Development— 
Community Planning and Development—Community De-
velopment Fund’’ in chapter 9 of title II of Public Law 
109–234 (120 Stat. 472) and approved by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development for use under the Road 
Home Program of such State. 
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(b) MONTHLY REPORTS ON PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The State of Louisiana shall 
submit reports under this subsection regarding the 
Road Home Program to the Committee on Financial 
Services of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of 
the Senate. Each report under this subsection shall 
describe and analyze the implementation, status, and 
effectiveness of the Road Home Program and shall in-
clude the following information, for the applicable re-
porting period and for the entire period of the pro-
gram: 
(A) The number of applications submitted 
for assistance under the program. 
(B) The number of households for which as-
sistance has been provided under the program. 
(C) The average amount of assistance pro-
vided for each household under the program and 
the total amount of assistance provided under 
the program. 
(D) The number of personnel involved in 
executing all aspects of the program. 
(E) Actions taken to improve the program 
and recommendations for further such improve-
ments. 
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(2) REPORTING
PERIODS.—The first report 
under this subsection shall be submitted not later than 
the expiration of the 30-day period that begins upon 
the date of the enactment of this Act and reports shall 
be submitted not later than the expiration of each suc-
cessive 30-day period thereafter during the term of the 
program. 
(c) NEW
ORLEANS
REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY 
PILOT PROGRAM.— 
(1) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—Of the unex-
pended amounts referred to in subsection (a), the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
make $15,000,000 available to the New Orleans Rede-
velopment Authority (in this subsection referred to as 
the ‘‘Redevelopment Authority’’), subject to paragraph 
(3), only for use to carry out the pilot program under 
this subsection. 
(2) PURPOSE.—The pilot program under this 
subsection shall fund, through the combination of 
amounts provided under this subsection with public 
and private capital from other sources, the purchase 
or costs associated with the acquisition of individual 
parcels of land in New Orleans, Louisiana, by the Re-
development Authority to be aggregated, assembled, 
and sold for the purpose of development by private 
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