The Galveston County Daily News is reporting Galveston Housing Authority Executive Director Harish Krishnarao resigned effective immediately during an executive session of the housing authority’s board of directors. Krishnarao has come under criticism for the slow process of the planning process for rebuilding 569 public housing units demolished by the housing authority after Hurricane Ike. […]
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Tag Archives: Disaster housing rebuilding
A conversation series dedicated to developing a disaster housing reconstruction program for low income homeowners
January 15, 2010 
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The Texas Grow Home Conversation Series will consist of eight meetings held every third Wednesday from 4pm – 6pm (location to be announced). Each meeting will discuss and develop recommendations for various topics associated with low-income homeowner recovery. Recommendations developed during each meeting will be used to inform the work of the Natural Disaster Housing […]
Read moreDisaster rebuilding, celebrity style, solution or problem?
December 3, 2009 1 Comment
Brad Pitt’s Make it Right Foundation is planning to build 150 homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The housing effort was designed to help former Lower Ninth residents return to their community after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The houses are built to be “affordable,” state-of-the-art green, sustainable, and hurricane resistant. […]
Read moreFirst homes complete, Texas Grow Home Project website launched
November 27, 2009 1 Comment
The first two Texas Grow Homes in Port Arthur have been completed by Houston-based CDC Covenant Neighborhoods and the new homeowners have moved in, just in time for Thanksgiving. Thanks to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs and all the project partners for making this possible. We have launched a web site that […]
Read moreHUD Rejects State of Texas CDBG Disaster Recovery Plan
November 16, 2009 1 Comment
HUD has rejected the State of Texas Plan to spend $1.7 billion in CDBG disaster recovery funds for Hurricane Dolly and Ike recovery. In rejecting the plan HUD mirrors concerning that we have expressed over the past months. We applaud HUD’s decision. More analysis will follow. Read HUD’s letter to Governor Perry rejecting the Texas […]
Read moreFEMA and HUD: not who you would want to depend on to throw you a life preserver
June 4, 2008 Comments Off
The House Financial Services Committee called HUD and FEMA to testify about when the lead federal agencies for hurricane relief are going to get the 2005 Hurricane survivors out of temporary and into permanent housing. The result: lots of agency mumbling and stammering. Listen to excerpts from the hearing in this NPR story. Also appalling is the failure of […]
Read moreWe have not learned the lessons of Katrina
May 31, 2008 Comments Off
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1) advocate on the behalf of the housing needs of the Katrina evacuees; 2) work with the State of Texas to try to come up with a good plan to help the victims of hurricane Rita […]
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