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City’s Harvey Recovery Map Shows Lake Houston Area Has Received Little Assistance

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:50:59 +0000

Five years after Hurricane Harvey, the City of Houston’s Harvey Recovery Map shows that in the Lake Houston Area less than 100 families have received some form of financial assistance. That’s out of 16,000 homes and 3,300 businesses that flooded in the Lake Houston Area during Harvey. Breakdown by Program To be more precise, the […]

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Why You Need Flood Insurance: Houston’s Long-Shot Harvey Reimbursement Program

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:19:32 +0000

The City of Houston’s latest pipeline report shows that as of the start of this year, Housing and Community Development’s Harvey Recovery Program had sent reimbursement checks to 150 homeowners out of 96,410 homes flooded during Harvey (see page 15). Quite the long shot! More than 1 in 600! Program Ended More than Year Ago; […]

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GLO Extends Deadline for Harvey Homeowner Assistance Applications

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:00:20 +0000

The original deadline for Hurricane Harvey Homeowner Assistance applications has been extended from this Friday to New Year’s Eve at 5 P.M. Applications do not have to be completed by then, just started by then. So if you still hope to receive aid, move quickly. Money is running out and eligible applications will be prioritized […]

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GLO Announces Homeowner Assistance, Reimbursement Programs for Imelda

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:11:31 +0000

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has announced locations of regional Homeowner Assistance and Reimbursement Programs (HARP) offices in advance of the application release for help from Tropical Storm Imelda. The Texas General Land Office (GLO) allocated $137.8 million of Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). […]

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GLO Reimbursement Program Helped Rebuild 2961 Homes While Houston’s Helped Only 119

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:06:19 +0000

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) announced last week that it has successfully completed its Reimbursement Program from Hurricane Harvey. It was a first-of-its-kind program and concluded after providing nearly $86 million to almost 3,000 Texas homeowners. The GLO also announced that it had reconstructed its 2,500th home under its Harvey Homeowner Assistance Program. Two […]

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City of Houston Couldn’t Even Give Away Harvey Aid Due to Bureaucratic Bungling

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:34:38 +0000

As a December 31st deadline expired, approximately $162 million – allocated by HUD to reimburse homeowners in the City of Houston for repairs they made after Harvey – remained unused. The City had worked on the reimbursement program for TWO years. Yet in all that time, the City’s Department of Housing and Community Development successfully […]

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