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Tag: Hurricane Rita

Houston Chronicle reports hurricane rebuilding fund diversion

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 11, 2010

Mike Synder of the Houston Chronicle this weekend picked up on the story about Governor Perry’s diversion of funds away…

Tags: Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane Rita

A confession: we’ve learned firsthand the reasons for disaster rebuilding delays

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 9, 2009

I have to fess up. Having pointed out in yesterday’s blog the unacceptably slow pace of rebuilding homes destroyed in…

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

A failed housing program will always come back and bite the responsible entity

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 20, 2009

One had to feel sorry for Michael Gerber Thursday morning. Appearing before a subcommittee of the Texas House Appropriations Committee…

Tags: Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Rita, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

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

Closer scrutiny will follow Texas expenditure of $1.3 billion in hurricane relief

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 29, 2008

HUD has allocated Texas $1.3 billion of the $2.1 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds that Congress has recently…

Tags: Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane Rita, ORCA, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

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

Lingering concerns about Texas Hurricane Rita home rebuilding

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 25, 2008

I am supporting the the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs Round 2 plan for CDBG housing assistance for…

Tags: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding, TDHCA

National fixes for post disaster housing programs

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 13, 2008

I have posted the testimony I presented to Congress regarding how the federal government can betterprovide long-term housing disaster assistance…

Tags: Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane Rita, Post-disaster housing, TDHCA, Texas Grow Home

At least we are better off than Mississippi and Alabama

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 11, 2008

Watch my testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Financial Service Committee, or, better yet,…

Tags: CDBG, Disaster recovery, Financial Services Committee, Hurricane Rita, TDHCA

Texas tempts fate and courts disaster

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 6, 2008

Is it that we Texans like living dangerously? Are we just slow to learn? Or are we the victims of…

Tags: Building codes, Hurricane Rita

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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