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Tag: FEMA

Texas Housers calls on FEMA and HUD to act quickly and equitably with Hurricane Fiona recovery in Puerto Rico, as future storms loom

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 28, 2022

On September 18, on the 33rd anniversary of Category 3 Hurricane Hugo and two days before the 5th Anniversary of…

Tags: Disaster recovery, FEMA, HUD, hurricane fiona, Puerto Rico

Read Texas Housers’ comments to FEMA on the efficiency and equity of their aid distribution

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 22, 2021

Comments by Julia Orduña When the Biden Administration took office in January 2021, among the first executive orders issued from…

Tags: Disaster recovery, FEMA

Episode 19: Disaster recovery is leaving out renters

A Little Louder, Harvey Recovery•by •Posted November 8, 2019

When a disaster hits, flooding and fires might not discriminate, but the systems and funding intended to rebuild our communities…

Tags: Aransas Pass, Disaster recovery, Fair housing, FEMA, Housing, Hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, lawsuit, Podcast

Low-income households disproportionately denied by FEMA is a sign of a system that is failing the most vulnerable

Harvey Recovery•by •Posted November 30, 2018

For some, Hurricane Harvey is now a distant, if not unpleasant, memory. Looking back on 2017, many Texas families will…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, FEMA, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery

Texas Housers calls on state to amend Harvey recovery action plan to be more equitable and inclusive

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by •Posted May 3, 2018

The state must commit to an equitable, inclusive plan that will make new and repaired housing affordable to Texans with…

Tags: FEMA, GLO, Housing, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane recovery, State Action Plan, Texas

To achieve an equitable recovery, we propose a fairer way to determine needs of Hurricane Harvey survivors

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by •Posted February 21, 2018

When the methods used to determine needs of hurricane survivors favor higher income people and communities, the process of recovery…

Tags: FEMA, GLO, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, State Action Plan

FEMA contract keeps Texas from sharing its own data publicly about state-funded disaster recovery programs

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by •Posted February 15, 2018

Texans are in the dark about the State’s progress in administering short-term housing programs and whether the State is meeting…

Tags: FEMA, GLO, Hurricane recovery, Public information request, State Action Plan

The needs of low-income Hurricane Harvey survivors cannot be determined by FEMA data alone

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by •Posted February 14, 2018

To determine unmet need of survivors of disaster, the state relies heavily on FEMA data, an appropriate source, but one…

Tags: deferred maintenance, Disaster recovery, FEMA, GLO, Hurricane recovery

Tracking Harvey Recovery: Latest analysis highlights unmet needs, urges more data transparency

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by •Posted January 19, 2018

Point of Clarification: FEMA has since clarified that inspections are not ordered for all valid registrations received. Some of these…

Tags: FEMA, GLO, HUD, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, Texas

Harvey survivors tell Texas House Urban Affairs Committee that safe housing is long overdue

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by •Posted January 18, 2018

  Land Commissioner George P. Bush and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner mostly blamed Congress and Washington politics for the slow…

Tags: Community leaders, Community organizing, Disaster recovery, FEMA, GLO, Hurricane rebuilding, legislature

We want disaster recovery to be fair and just. Here’s a good place to start.

State issues•by •Posted September 14, 2017

Over the past 10 years, Texas Housers and our legal and organizing partners have advocated equitable recovery through four major…

Tags: Disaster recovery, FEMA, HUD, Hurricane rebuilding

Court rules for colonia residents over FEMA denial of post-disaster home repair help

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 23, 2017

Our friends at La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) have been waging a multi-year…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, FEMA, La Union del Pueblo Entero, LUPE, TRLA

An Austin designer’s interesting approach to post-disaster shelter

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 28, 2009

Austin designer Michael McDaniel has developed an alternative temporary housing solution to the FEMA trailer. He calls it the Reaction…

Tags: FEMA

Federal court orders FEMA to reconsider denial of home repairs to Hurricane Dolly survivors

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 10, 2009

Good news for the low income Hurricane Dolly survivors who were denied home repairs by FEMA! The United States District…

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane Dolly

Photos and costs of FEMA’s temporary housing units released

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 9, 2009

At yesterday’s hearing on the future of FEMA disaster housing before the House Homeland Security Committee the committee staff produced…

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane rebuilding

Getting closer to finding out why so many Texas hurricane survivors were denied housing assistance

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 17, 2009

The pieces are slowly coming together to answer the question, why were so many applications for FEMA housing assistance in…

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding

An encouraging sign of understanding by new FEMA administrator

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 16, 2009

I liked what I heard from new FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate in his June 9 testimony before the House Homeland…

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane rebuilding

Katrina Cottage pilot program woes due to failure at all levels

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 15, 2009

How many times do we have to hear the story before it sinks in? Let’s sum up the government response…

Tags: FEMA, Heston Homes, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane rebuilding, Katrina Cottages, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

TxLIHIS Karen Paup and NLIHC Sheila Crowley testify on housing disaster recovery

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 18, 2009

. Texas Low Income Housing Information Service co-director Karen Paup and National Low Income Housing Coalition president Sheila Crowley were…

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane rebuilding

Is federal disaster assistance an entitlement?

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 1, 2008

The back-and-forth between the Texas governor and the US Secretary of Homeland Security over who will pay for the removal…

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane Rita

Reforming FEMA alone won’t fix the problem

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 26, 2008

There are hopes that a structural reform and management reorganization of FEMA under the Obama Administration will solve the problems…

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane Rita

Stories of eleven Texas families document FEMA’s illegal and systemic discrimination against the poor

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 20, 2008

It has become abundantly clear that FEMA does not treat low-income disaster survivors right. Consider the stories included in a…

Tags: FEMA, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane rebuilding

What’s with FEMA’s high denial rate of Galveston area requests for help?

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 16, 2008

Anger is widespread over the fact that people are still living in tents in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.  Data…

Tags: FEMA, Galveston, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding

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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