Above: Leaders of the South Tower Power campaign at the City of Alamo Wastewater Treatment Plant. A Rio Grande Valley community is one step closer in their search for relief from a noxious smell produced […]
A long-simmering controversy over a planned arena in downtown El Paso that would displace a historic neighborhood and its residents erupted into a confrontation between the community and a contractor hired by property owners earlier […]
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 […]
