Port Arthur Archives - Texas Housers

Texas is offering $1 billion for cities to build resilience to prepare for the next storm. But the process could leave out communities that need it most.

(Photo: A lineman checks on a downed powerlines in Port Arthur) In the last blog on Port Arthur, we predictedContinue Reading

(Photo: U.S. Air National Guard rescues family trapped in home in Port Arthur) Port Arthur sits on the shore ofContinue Reading

Bill Minutaglio, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, the author of “City on Fire: The ExplosionContinue Reading

Everyone is horrified at the loss of life and destruction last night from the explosion of a fertilizer plant inContinue Reading

by Kevin Jewell January 31, 2011

HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released two audit reports on Texas entities last week. One report covered $503 millionContinue Reading