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Tag: Disaster relief

Texas Housers calls on governor to provide bold leadership to help Texans keep their homes amid health crisis

State issues•by •Posted April 2, 2020

Gov. Greg Abbott announced yesterday that he and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs have taken initial action…

Tags: covid-19, Disaster relief, Governor Greg Abbott, Renters, TDHCA

Disaster relief rolls out in the Rio Grande Valley; residents hope for just and fair process

Local issues•by •Posted August 1, 2018

(Home in Indian Hills colonia that experienced flooding after the June storms. Photo taken a week after the storms hit.)…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Disaster relief, drainage, Rio Grande Valley

We are looking for four people who want to work with us for a just and equitable disaster recovery

Activities, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 27, 2017

Texas Housers is looking for four talented and dedicated people to work for housing justice with our team. The job…

Tags: Disaster relief, Hurricane Harvey, jobs

Another epic, preventable disaster strikes the poor

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 13, 2010

Somilia, Katrina, Rita, Ike, now Haiti. Another epic disaster strikes a population of desperately poor people. Poor physical living conditions,…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Disaster relief

What the State of Texas must do to fix the Hurricane rebuilding plan (and what we plan to do to make sure it does)

Activities, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 23, 2009

People have asked me what we want from the Texas CDBG Disaster Rebuilding Plan that we have criticized and that…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Disaster relief, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding

ORCA’s public hearing for $1.7 billion disaster relief program crashes

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 13, 2009

Today’s web based public hearing conducted by ORCA to accept public testimony on the $1.7 billion Hurricane Ike/Dolly CDBG Disaster…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Disaster relief, ORCA

Confusion and delays plague temporary housing programs for Hurricane Ike survivors

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 30, 2008

I have been spending some time this week trying to understand the way the FEMA temporary housing assistance programs have…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Disaster relief, Hurricane Ike

The toll from Hurricane Dolly is not in and we’re not prepared for a low income housing disaster

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 24, 2008

At this hour we still don’t have a full account of damage from Hurricane Dolly which hit Brownsville and the…

Tags: Disaster relief, Hurricane rebuilding, Low income survivors, Post-disaster housing

FEMA and HUD: not who you would want to depend on to throw you a life preserver

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 4, 2008

The House Financial Services Committee called HUD and FEMA to testify about when the lead federal agencies for hurricane relief…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, Disaster relief, FEMA, HUD, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding, Katrina evacuees
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