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Houston residents with homes damaged by Hurricane Beryl or the derecho wind event last year could receive financial assistance in the coming months. The need is greater than the available funding — a problem the city has faced in the past.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/09/17/531097/houstons-recovery-funds-for-beryl-and-the-derecho-unlikely-to-meet-need/

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Houston residents with homes damaged by Hurricane Beryl or the derecho wind event last year could receive financial assistance in the coming months. The need is greater than the available funding — a problem the city has faced in the past.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/09/17/531097/houstons-recovery-funds-for-beryl-and-the-derecho-unlikely-to-meet-need/

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Houston residents with homes damaged by Hurricane Beryl or the derecho wind event last year could receive financial assistance in the coming months. The need is greater than the available funding — a problem the city has faced in the past.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/09/17/531097/houstons-recovery-funds-for-beryl-and-the-derecho-unlikely-to-meet-need/

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Houston residents with homes damaged by Hurricane Beryl or the derecho wind event last year could receive financial assistance in the coming months. The need is greater than the available funding — a problem the city has faced in the past.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/09/17/531097/houstons-recovery-funds-for-beryl-and-the-derecho-unlikely-to-meet-need/

#CityOfHouston #Housing #Houston #Hurricane #Local #News #DisasterRecovery #HoustonDerecho #HoustonHousing #HurricaneBeryl #HurricaneHarvey #TexasGeneralLandOffice #TexasHousers

Houston residents with homes damaged by Hurricane Beryl or the derecho wind event last year could receive financial assistance in the coming months. The need is greater than the available funding — a problem the city has faced in the past.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/09/17/531097/houstons-recovery-funds-for-beryl-and-the-derecho-unlikely-to-meet-need/

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Jamaica Beach, located on the west side of Galveston Island, is receiving 61,000 cubic yards of new sand to help protect the shoreline from erosion.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/galveston/2025/06/11/523737/jamaica-beach-in-galveston-to-receive-over-5m-in-additional-sand-regrading/

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More than $26 million in federal disaster recovery money – which was previously allocated but left unspent – is being newly awarded to a series of affordable housing developments in the Houston and Galveston areas.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/2025/05/19/521748/houston-galveston-areas-getting-26-million-in-reallocated-disaster-recovery-funds-for-affordable-housing/

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The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/03/25/516862/federal-investigators-were-preparing-two-texas-housing-discrimination-cases-until-trump-took-over/

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Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey aid in 2021, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development affirmed this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/hurricane-harvey/2025/01/17/511299/feds-refer-texas-hurricane-harvey-funding-discrimination-case-to-justice-department/

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Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey aid in 2021, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development affirmed this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/hurricane-harvey/2025/01/17/511299/feds-refer-texas-hurricane-harvey-funding-discrimination-case-to-justice-department/

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Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey aid in 2021, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development affirmed this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/hurricane-harvey/2025/01/17/511299/feds-refer-texas-hurricane-harvey-funding-discrimination-case-to-justice-department/

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Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey aid in 2021, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development affirmed this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/hurricane-harvey/2025/01/17/511299/feds-refer-texas-hurricane-harvey-funding-discrimination-case-to-justice-department/

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Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey aid in 2021, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development affirmed this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/hurricane-harvey/2025/01/17/511299/feds-refer-texas-hurricane-harvey-funding-discrimination-case-to-justice-department/

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About 200 Houston households impacted by Hurricane Harvey, which brought widespread flooding to the region in 2017, will receive up to $125,000 in assistance toward down payments, closing costs, subsidized interest rates and principal buydown.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2025/01/15/510881/houston-households-impacted-by-hurricane-harvey-to-receive-down-payment-assistance/

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More than six years after Hurricane Harvey flooded thousands of homes and killed more than 80 people on the Texas Coast, the city of Houston has yet to allocate $200 million in federal relief funds to victims, according to the state's General Land Office.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2024/01/08/473773/six-years-after-hurricane-harvey-the-city-of-houston-still-hasnt-allocated-200-million-in-relief-funds/

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More than six years after Hurricane Harvey flooded thousands of homes and killed more than 80 people on the Texas Coast, the city of Houston has yet to allocate $200 million in federal relief funds to victims, according to the state's General Land Office.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2024/01/08/473773/six-years-after-hurricane-harvey-the-city-of-houston-still-hasnt-allocated-200-million-in-relief-funds/

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Houston's new mayor and Texas' land commissioner both have expressed a willingness to work with each other, which could spell relief for Houston residents who are still trying to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2024/01/05/473671/houstons-new-mayor-texas-land-commissioner-pledge-to-work-together-to-disperse-remaining-hurricane-harvey-relief-funds/

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