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Tag: Texas GLO

Five Years After Harvey: Disaster Recovery In Texas Is An Ongoing Disaster

Harvey Recovery, Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 26, 2022

In a series of blogs, Texas Housers is observing the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Harvey by examining the responses from…

Tags: Hurricane Harvey, Texas GLO

Texas GLO must enter Voluntary Compliance Agreement or Southeast Texas communities of color will continue losing livelihoods and lives

Harvey Recovery, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted August 25, 2022

In March of 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development determined that the Texas General Land Office was discriminatory…

Tags: CDBG MIT, HUD, Texas GLO

A Little Louder Episode 45: Texas GLO and Discrimination

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 19, 2022

This week, HUD released its final determination that Texas GLO discriminated against Black and Hispanic Texans in its distribution of…

Tags: A Little Louder, CDBG MIT, Civil rights, Disaster recovery, Texas GLO

HUD finds that Texas GLO discriminated against communities of color in $4 billion CDBG-MIT program

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 8, 2022

In a historic victory for communities of color in Houston and the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban…

Tags: CDBG, CDBG MIT, Disaster recovery, HUD, Texas GLO

HUD stopping State of Texas’s misuse of federal disaster mitigation funds is not about paperwork or politics, it’s about saying no to discrimination

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 14, 2022

There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigation…

Tags: CDBG, HUD, Texas GLO

Texas GLO boasts about the PREPS Program while Harvey Survivors live in homes in dire need of repair

Harvey Recovery, Local issues, State issues•by Julia Orduña•Posted August 27, 2020

Co-written with Ben Hirsh of West Street Recovery and the Harvey Forgotten Survivors Caucus In a Houston Chronicle op-ed last…

Tags: Harvey Forgotten Survivor Caucus, Hurricane Harvey, PREPS, Texas GLO

Here is how Texas GLO must address systemic racial inequity through CDBG-MIT planning and disaster mitigation

National issues, State issues•by •Posted June 30, 2020

Racial prejudice is not simply expressed through interpersonal bigotry, but it is a systemic issue that has been intentionally built…

Tags: drainage, Racism, Texas GLO

The distribution of Texas’ disaster recovery funds exemplifies inequity. Here’s how we told the State to fix it.

State issues•by •Posted January 16, 2020
Texas GLO Office

There is a painful misconception in disaster recovery that is sometimes used as an excuse to maintain the status quo:…

Tags: CDBG, Texas GLO
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