Over the past 10 years, Texas Housers and our legal and organizing partners have advocated equitable recovery through four major hurricanes. (See here, for example.) The process for survivors to seek relief is sometimes long […]
Pictured above, Professors Walt Peacock and Shannon Van Zandt of the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction and Recover Center at a field trip of the Texas Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee (chaired by Senator Eddie Lucio) to […]
Texas Housers is teaming up with attorneys from Texas RioGrande Legal Aid to produce a series of short videos providing the advice of legal services attorneys familiar with all aspects of disaster recovery. A web […]
Our Houston co-director, Chrishelle Palay has worked disaster recovery before and has worked with low-income communities so that they have a voice in recovery after Hurricane Ike. She’s a devoted housing advocate and says Harvey […]
(This photo above is a typical open drainage ditch in the African-American Houston Sunnyside neighborhood before Hurricane Harvey.) The City of Houston has known for several years that neighborhoods of color were inadequately protected from […]
The job ahead in Hurricane Harvey recovery from Texas Housers on Vimeo. The National Weather Service called the flooding from Harvey devastating and unprecedented. Houston has been inundated with floodwater, with some areas seeing four […]
The National Hurricane Center projects that Tropical Storm Harvey is now expected to be a major hurricane by the time it hits the Texas Gulf Coast late this week. Counties are handing out sandbags and […]
