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Tag: Hurricane Katrina

Video: What Texas must learn about disaster recovery and fair housing

State issues•by •Posted September 18, 2015

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…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Dolly, Fair housing, Hurricane Katrina, Ike, Rita, texas appleseed

Still waiting for help: The lessons of Hurricane Katrina on poverty

Local issues•by •Posted August 31, 2015

This article was originally published on The Conversation, and is republished here in accordance with their Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives license.…

Tags: Austin, Hurricane Katrina, Poverty, Republished

Austin case study: Postdisaster housing policy and low-income survivors

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 19, 2011

Several very smart people from the University of Texas and myself just had a paper published in the Journal of…

Tags: Austin, Housing policy, Hurricane Katrina

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

Watch “The Old Man and the Storm” on-line

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 6, 2009

In case you missed the broadcast, I urge you to watch the Frontline film, The Old Man and the Storm…

Tags: Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane rebuilding

PBS film documements role of race, class and politics in rebuilding hurricane damaged homes

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 2, 2009

Watch the trailer for the PBS Frontline film, “The Old Man and the Storm.” Several of President Bush’s top aides…

Tags: Hurricane, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina

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

Slow expenditures, questionable priorities plague Houston and Harris County administered hurricane relief efforts

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 13, 2008

We have been critical of the decisions of the City of Houston and of Harris County so far as their…

Tags: Houston, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding

Lessons from Kartina and Rita about rebuilding permanent housing for low income hurricane survivors

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted September 18, 2008

We learned valuable lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita about providing post-disaster housing assistance to low income families. This is…

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

A New Orleans obituary has lessons for Galveston

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted September 15, 2008

They have their hands full right now, but someday before the plans for rebuilding are set the city leaders in…

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

Three years after Katrina: from compassion to racist stereotypes

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 29, 2008

Today marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The images of the suffering poor left behind in New Orleans caused…

Tags: Hurricane Katrina

Houston’s fair housing failure segregates Katrina evacuees in SW slum apartments

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 21, 2008

Today’s dangerous housing problems in the Southwestern part of Houston have been greatly exacerbated by the actions of Houston city…

Tags: Housing segregation, Houston, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina evacuees, Substandard apartments

Katrina evacuee’s Habitat success story greeted by cheers and jeers

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 7, 2008

Reading the story in the Houston Chronicle on July 4 about Andrea Lee who moved to Houston after Hurricane Katrina…

Tags: Hurricane Katrina, 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

We have not learned the lessons of Katrina

Activities, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted May 31, 2008

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding, Katrina evacuees, Low income survivors
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