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City of Houston Re-evaluating Benefit-Cost Ratio on Lake Houston Gates Project Alternatives

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:20:25 +0000

According to minutes of the Coastal Water Authority (CWA) February 9 board meeting posted in March, work on the project to add more gates to Lake Houston was paused in January while the City of Houston updated the project’s benefit-cost ratio. CWA Board Minutes Give High-Level Overview of Concerns, Status Earlier, in December, the board […]

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Equity Myth Buster: “Rich Neighborhoods Get All the Flood-Mitigation Funding”

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 03:28:05 +0000

A myth being promulgated in the Harris County Courthouse and certain low-income watersheds these days goes something like this: The FEMA Benefit/Cost Ratio used to rank grant applications for flood-mitigation projects favors high-dollar homes. That disadvantages poor, inner-city neighborhoods compared to affluent suburbs. Therefore, poor neighborhoods get no help and the rich neighborhoods get it […]

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