3 years after Harvey, some in Houston still waiting for help

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Three years after Harvey, some Houston residents feel angry and abandoned as their repair efforts were bogged down by a city program they described as slow and bureaucratic.

Construction workers continue Friday, January 31, 2020, repairing and cleaning up the Hurricane Harvey damaged home of Houston resident Lawrence Hester. Hester said he was unable to get help from a city program created to fix homes damaged during Harvey and had to endure hazardous living conditions for more than two years. He turned to a local nonprofit to fix his home. The city program has finished rebuilding less than 70 homes since beginning in January 2019.

The program has finished rebuilding less than 70 homes since it started January 2019. “The government is bickering over funding as far as who it belongs to, but it really belongs to the residents and the residents are still here waiting with hands empty,” said Julia Orduña, with Texas Housers, a nonprofit that works on housing issues.

In the Houston area, Harvey flooded more than 150,000 homes, with more than 16,000 residents identified as potentially needing repair help.

 

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