By Pacific Island Times News Staff
Guam will receive $500 million in federal assistance for Typhoon Mawar recovery.
Del. James Moylan said the fresh funds will come from the Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery
allocation for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The grant is authorized under the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations
Act of 2025, which was enacted last Dec. 21.
“The funding from HUD will undoubtedly address the continued recovery from Typhoon Mawar while helping many families in Guam and
stimulating our economy,” Moylan said.
Typhoon Mawar hit Guam in May 2023— the strongest to hit the island since 2002— leaving trails of destruction. Significant damage to utility infrastructures left Guam without power and water and cut off communications systems in several parts of the island for months. The government of Guam estimated the damage at nearly $500 million.
Typhoon Mawar destroyed several facilities at Andersen Air Force Base and Naval Base Guam. The Department of Defense estimated the damage at $10 billion.
“With all the major natural disasters nationally since 2023, disaster relief funding has constantly been exhausted, resulting in Guam’s unmet needs being adversely impacted,” Moylan said, adding that “supplemental relief funding was inevitable.”
Moylan told the House Committee of Appropriations that the breakdown consisted of $435.5 million for unmet needs and $65.325 million for mitigation supplements.
The HUD funding is administered by the Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority, the respective state disaster response office.
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