She says it far better than I can. We shot this interview with a woman whose home suffered major damage from Hurricane Rita. She describes the type of problems thousands of low income Texas families have encountered trying to get their homes repaired working with FEMA. [BTW - her house is still not repaired today, [...]
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Tag Archives: Hurricane Dolly
Put an end to FEMA trailers by moving people quickly into permanent housing
December 15, 2008
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Texas disaster recovery plan is based on bad data and faulty assumptions
December 8, 2008
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Today I continue the analysis begun yesterday of the draft plan developed by the Texas Office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA) for spending $1.3 billion in federal CDBG funds set aside to help Texans recover from Hurricanes Dolly and Ike. Yesterday I described how the ORCA plan proposed to turn over all the funds to [...]
Read moreTexas disaster plan – an ill conceived pork barrel
December 7, 2008
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Texas’ just released plan for $1.3 billion in federal Community Development Block Grant funds for Hurricanes Dolly and Ike fails to provide the type of plan required by federal law. The plan proposes an arbitrary, pork barrel style allocation of disaster recovery funds that will leave the critical housing needs of Texas families unmet. The [...]
Read moreReforming FEMA alone won’t fix the problem
November 26, 2008
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There are hopes that a structural reform and management reorganization of FEMA under the Obama Administration will solve the problems that emerged in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Dolly and Ike. There is a lot of important work to be done with reforming FEMA but even a perfect emergency management agency won’t provide the [...]
Read moreStories of eleven Texas families document FEMA’s illegal and systemic discrimination against the poor
November 20, 2008
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It has become abundantly clear that FEMA does not treat low-income disaster survivors right. Consider the stories included in a lawsuit filed against FEMA in Federal District Court in Brownsville today by attorneys with Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid (TRLA). The lawsuit cites the tragic stories of eleven low-income hurricane survivor households denied assistance by [...]
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Bo McCarver’s housing news clips for May
- Mitt Romney at private fundraiser: I might eliminate HUD – The Washington Post
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Bo’s housing news clips: Study finds zoning segregates lower-income students in lower-scoring schools.
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Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months
- Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas – NYTimes.com
