HUD：波多黎各七笔恢复资金支出仍偏慢

On September 10, 2026, for those covering housing and infrastructure recovery in Puerto Rico, the primary document is not a Fortaleza press release: it is the CDBG-DR Grant Expenditure Report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as of February 1, 2026. The PDF is published by the Office of Community Planning and Development through the Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting System (DRGR). HUD's reporting page (hud-partners/community-cdbg-dr-reports) describes this product as the list of active CDBG-DR grants, with balances and classified as On Pace or Slow Spender; in January 2022, the Department changed the methodology for that pace. What the journalist can then cite are the columns of the report itself — Grant Award, Balance, Disaster Year, Grant Age in Months, Expected Spending %, Drawn %, Spending Status, and Amount Behind Pace — not an invented “total spent” calculated blindly.

In the Puerto Rico section, the February 1, 2026 snapshot lists nine grants. Seven appear as Slow Spender. Two more recent grants, both from 2022, appear On Pace with Drawn % at 0.0%. That snapshot does not say that the money “disappeared.” It says that HUD measures the pace of drawn against an expected spending % based on the grant's age. Drawn ≠ obligated (FEMA) ≠ awarded (HUD) ≠ allotted (Congress) ≠ disbursed to the final beneficiary. Mixing up those labels is the most common mistake in Caribbean coverage of CDBG-DR.

The largest grant in the block is B-18-DP-72-0001: Grant Award of $8,220,783,000, Balance of $4,497,926,361, Disaster Year 2017, 72 months old, Expected Spending 54.0%, Drawn 45.3%, Slow Spender, Amount Behind Pace $715,098,735. It is the large grant for Maria/Irma recovery in the DP nomenclature. The Award is the grant amount according to HUD; the Balance is the balance published by the report; the Drawn % is the percentage that HUD labels as drawn. We do not rewrite these three columns as “$X billion in roofs have already been built.”

Next in size, within the same category, B-18-DE-72-0001: Grant Award $1,932,347,000, Balance $1,833,805,226, Disaster Year 2017, 42 months, Expected 28.0%, Drawn 5.1%, Slow Spender, Behind Pace $442,708,598. The Drawn % of 5.1% at 42 months of age is the data that a desk editor should underline: it is not a total work, it is the pace that HUD places in the Drawn column. The grant B-17-DM-72-0001 shows Award $1,507,179,000, Balance $327,499,541, 89 months, Expected 84.9%, Drawn 78.3%, Slow Spender, Behind Pace $100,636,132. There the Drawn % is closer to the expected, but HUD still marks it as Slow Spender because the difference exceeds the threshold of its 2022 methodology.

The medium grants from the same block are not anecdotal. B-19-DP-72-0001: Award $277,853,230, Balance $234,087,366, Disaster Year 2017, 55 months, Expected 58.1%, Drawn 15.8%, Slow Spender, Behind Pace $117,555,728. B-21-DZ-72-0001: Award $184,626,000, Balance $174,234,442, Disaster Year 2019, 43 months, Expected 30.4%, Drawn 5.6%, Slow Spender, Behind Pace $45,660,898. B-19-DF-72-0001: Award $36,424,000, Balance $28,048,831, 2019, 49 months, Expected 43.5%, Drawn 23.0%, Slow Spender, Behind Pace $7,483,841. And the oldest grant of the lot, B-08-DI-72-0001 (Disaster Year 2008, 197 months): Award $29,982,887, Balance $2,917,446, Expected 95.0%, Drawn 90.3%, Slow Spender, Behind Pace $1,418,272. Citing 2008 next to 2017 avoids the myth that “the problem started with Maria”: HUD already carries an eighteen-year grant in the same table.

The two On Pace grants for the cut are B-23-DN-72-0001 (Award $165,645,000, Balance $165,644,837, Disaster Year 2022, 19 months, Expected 0.0%, Drawn 0.0%) and B-23-DN-72-0002 (Award $667,000, Balance $667,000, same 19 months, Drawn 0.0%). On Pace with Drawn 0.0% and Expected 0.0% is not a performance compliment: it is that, at that age, the methodology still does not require a drawn percentage. Whoever titles “Puerto Rico is already On Pace” based on these two lines is lying by omission.

How to use the PDF in the drafting of San Juan, Ponce, or Mayagüez: (1) download the file with the cutoff date visible —this is 2-1-2026— and do not recycle an Expenditure Report from 2024 as if it were this week's; (2) copy Grant Award, Balance, and Drawn % with those labels in English, because they are from the DRGR system; (3) do not sum the nine awards and call it “the CDBG-DR of Puerto Rico,” because each grant has a different public law, action plan, and activities; (4) do not turn Amount Behind Pace into “stolen money”; (5) cross-check the grant number (B-18-DP-72-0001, B-18-DE-72-0001, B-17-DM-72-0001) with the Housing Action Plan and with the QPRs in DRGR, not with a tweet. The report does not break down municipalities or repaired roofs; for that, you have to go to the Action Plan and the grantee's performance reports.

The same HUD hub updates the package on the first day of each month — Grant History, CDBG-MIT Financial, CDBG-DR Grants Financial, 2008 Grants Targeted for Closeout, Affordable Rental Housing Expenditures, and DREF. In October 2025, the site notes that there was no publication due to lapse of appropriations. That institutional note matters in 2026: a one-month gap in the series is not “HUD hid Puerto Rico”; it is a break that the portal itself documents. This note uses the Expenditure Report of February 1, 2026 because it is the primary PDF with Puerto Rico rows visible, not a cabinet tally. Cousin: none. Topic: economy. Primary source: CDBG-DR Grant Expenditure Report, February 1, 2026, on hud.gov.