It’s been 10 years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the Gulf Coast, and in subsequent years other major hurricanes have devastated Texas’ coastal communities. Our…
Tag: Hurricane Katrina
Still waiting for help: The lessons of Hurricane Katrina on poverty
This article was originally published on The Conversation, and is republished here in accordance with their Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives license.…
Austin case study: Postdisaster housing policy and low-income survivors
Several very smart people from the University of Texas and myself just had a paper published in the Journal of…
Katrina Cottage pilot program woes due to failure at all levels
How many times do we have to hear the story before it sinks in? Let’s sum up the government response…
Watch “The Old Man and the Storm” on-line
In case you missed the broadcast, I urge you to watch the Frontline film, The Old Man and the Storm…
PBS film documements role of race, class and politics in rebuilding hurricane damaged homes
Watch the trailer for the PBS Frontline film, “The Old Man and the Storm.” Several of President Bush’s top aides…
Is federal disaster assistance an entitlement?
The back-and-forth between the Texas governor and the US Secretary of Homeland Security over who will pay for the removal…
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…
Slow expenditures, questionable priorities plague Houston and Harris County administered hurricane relief efforts
We have been critical of the decisions of the City of Houston and of Harris County so far as their…
Lessons from Kartina and Rita about rebuilding permanent housing for low income hurricane survivors
We learned valuable lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita about providing post-disaster housing assistance to low income families. This is…
A New Orleans obituary has lessons for Galveston
They have their hands full right now, but someday before the plans for rebuilding are set the city leaders in…
Three years after Katrina: from compassion to racist stereotypes
Today marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The images of the suffering poor left behind in New Orleans caused…
Houston’s fair housing failure segregates Katrina evacuees in SW slum apartments
Today’s dangerous housing problems in the Southwestern part of Houston have been greatly exacerbated by the actions of Houston city…
Katrina evacuee’s Habitat success story greeted by cheers and jeers
Reading the story in the Houston Chronicle on July 4 about Andrea Lee who moved to Houston after Hurricane Katrina…
FEMA and HUD: not who you would want to depend on to throw you a life preserver
The House Financial Services Committee called HUD and FEMA to testify about when the lead federal agencies for hurricane relief…
We have not learned the lessons of Katrina
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)…