The pieces are slowly coming together to answer the question, why were so many applications for FEMA housing assistance in…
Tag: Hurricane Dolly
TX Legislature seeks better homes, faster repairs for hurricane survivors
It has been almost a year since Hurricane Ike’s and Hurricane Dolly’s floodwaters rose above streets, and above doors and…
Texas will be forced to ration hurricane home repair grants
Texas should allocate the limited disaster funds so that they take care of the housing needs of Hurricane Ike/Dolly survivors…
Texas official in charge of disaster assistance refuses to state housing needs will be funded
I predicted the process for allocating funds set out in the draft ORCA Hurricane Ike/Dolly Disaster Plan will result in…
Put an end to FEMA trailers by moving people quickly into permanent housing
She says it far better than I can. We shot this interview with a woman whose home suffered major damage…
Texas disaster recovery plan is based on bad data and faulty assumptions
Today I continue the analysis begun yesterday of the draft plan developed by the Texas Office of Rural Community Affairs…
Texas disaster plan – an ill conceived pork barrel
Texas’ just released plan for $1.3 billion in federal Community Development Block Grant funds for Hurricanes Dolly and Ike fails…
Reforming FEMA alone won’t fix the problem
There are hopes that a structural reform and management reorganization of FEMA under the Obama Administration will solve the problems…
Stories of eleven Texas families document FEMA’s illegal and systemic discrimination against the poor
It has become abundantly clear that FEMA does not treat low-income disaster survivors right. Consider the stories included in a…