There are many critical housing needs facing Hurricane Ike survivors of all incomes. Our focus is on the area of housing for low-income families. This is our ten point plan to rehouse low income Hurricane Ike survivors. We learned a lot about how low-income families fare in the wake of natural disaster through the Hurricane […]
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The toll from Hurricane Dolly is not in and we’re not prepared for a low income housing disaster
July 24, 2008 
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At this hour we still don’t have a full account of damage from Hurricane Dolly which hit Brownsville and the Texas Rio Grande Valley head on. Regardless of the final damage tally Dolly should be a wake up call and a warning. We are not prepared to deal with rebuilding housing of the poor after […]
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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