Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused us to begin to think about the way low-income people are treated as they are provided temporary housing and assisted with rebuilding their permanent housing. It is clear that existing government programs do not serve the poor well.
Texas Housers have taken on three initiatives to make sure that the next time disaster strikes a low-income population the response is better.
- Texas Grow Homes – developing modular housing to rebuilding the homes of low income families destroyed by hurricanes and natural disasters.
- Housing for Katrina evacuees in Texas. [2005 summit] [2006 summit]
- A new state and national policy for housing victims of natural disasters – developing the policy throughcollaboration on a wiki.
