Housing and Community Development - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/housing-and-community-development/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:09:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Housing and Community Development - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/housing-and-community-development/ 32 32 103504436 GLO Releases Status of Disaster-Relief, Flood-Mitigation Applications https://houstonnewmedia.org/glo-releases-status-of-disaster-relief-flood-mitigation-applications/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glo-releases-status-of-disaster-relief-flood-mitigation-applications Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:09:20 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=49456 2/28/25 – Today, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) released the status of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) disaster-relief and flood-mitigation applications from Harris County’s Flood Control District and Housing & Community Development Department. The grant applications cover almost $1.1 billion dollars in aid for Harris County relating to Hurricane Harvey alone, which the GLO […]

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]]> 911115 Why You Need Flood Insurance: Houston’s Long-Shot Harvey Reimbursement Program https://houstonnewmedia.org/why-you-need-flood-insurance-houstons-long-shot-harvey-reimbursement-program/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-you-need-flood-insurance-houstons-long-shot-harvey-reimbursement-program Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:19:32 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=31275 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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]]> 254829 Mayor Turner Points Finger at GLO in Latest Harvey Relief Dispute https://houstonnewmedia.org/mayor-turner-points-finger-at-glo-in-latest-harvey-relief-dispute/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mayor-turner-points-finger-at-glo-in-latest-harvey-relief-dispute Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:02:12 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=29705 Two months after Tom McCasland publicly exposed problems in his Housing and Community Development Department (HCDD), the Texas General Land Office (GLO) released the results of its investigation of McCasland’s explosive allegations. GLO criticized HCDD on five counts. It didn’t take long for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to return fire. Turner Fires Back Turner’s office […]

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]]> 208467 Mayor Turner Points Finger at GLO in Latest Harvey Relief Dispute https://houstonnewmedia.org/mayor-turner-points-finger-at-glo-in-latest-harvey-relief-dispute/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mayor-turner-points-finger-at-glo-in-latest-harvey-relief-dispute Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:02:12 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=29705 Two months after Tom McCasland publicly exposed problems in his Housing and Community Development Department (HCDD), the Texas General Land Office (GLO) released the results of its investigation of McCasland’s explosive allegations. GLO criticized HCDD on five counts. It didn’t take long for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to return fire. Turner Fires Back Turner’s office […]

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]]> 208466 Should City Be in Disaster Relief? For One Program, It Spent $3 Million to Get $3 Thousand https://houstonnewmedia.org/should-city-be-in-disaster-relief-for-one-program-it-spent-3-million-to-get-3-thousand/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=should-city-be-in-disaster-relief-for-one-program-it-spent-3-million-to-get-3-thousand Sat, 09 Oct 2021 23:49:24 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=28701 One of the more alarming facts that came out of Thursday’s City Council meeting is that Houston’s Housing and Community Development is spending far more on disaster relief than it gets back in reimbursements. In the case of one program, Economic Development, the ratio between costs and reimbursements to date was actually 1100 to 1, […]

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]]> 181733 Special City Meeting Thursday At 2 PM Will Address Multi-Family Housing Flap https://houstonnewmedia.org/special-city-meeting-thursday-at-2-pm-will-address-multi-family-housing-flap/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=special-city-meeting-thursday-at-2-pm-will-address-multi-family-housing-flap Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:52:06 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=28657 City of Houston called a special joint committee meeting for Thursday, October 7, at 2PM between Budget & Fiscal Affairs and Housing and Community Affairs. Mayor Pro Tem Dave Martin will chair the meeting. The agenda is scant. It entails a Housing and Community Development “Financial Update” with three speakers: Keith Bynam, Deputy Director, Housing […]

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]]> 179889 Chronicle, ABC13 Report Harris County District Attorney Opens Investigation into Mayor https://houstonnewmedia.org/chronicle-abc13-report-harris-county-district-attorney-opens-investigation-into-mayor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chronicle-abc13-report-harris-county-district-attorney-opens-investigation-into-mayor Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:22:40 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=28638 The Houston Chronicle and Ted Oberg, ABC13’s investigative reporter, both filed new stories Tuesday about the controversy surrounding Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and the City’s troubled Housing and Community Development Department. The story blew up on September 22 and immediately triggered a fraud investigation by the Texas General Land Office and the US Department of […]

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]]> 179233 Blowup Between Mayor and Housing Director Triggers Fraud Investigation over Harvey Funds https://houstonnewmedia.org/blowup-between-mayor-and-housing-director-triggers-fraud-investigation-over-harvey-funds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blowup-between-mayor-and-housing-director-triggers-fraud-investigation-over-harvey-funds Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:05:09 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=28402 Yesterday, City of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Houston Housing and Community Development Director Tom McCasland got into a verbal brawl over alleged improprieties in the distribution of Harvey relief funds. The trigger was the award of $15 million to build a Clear Lake multi-family housing complex in which the Mayor’s former law partner, Barry […]

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]]> 172147 GLO Reimbursement Program Helped Rebuild 2961 Homes While Houston’s Helped Only 119 https://houstonnewmedia.org/glo-reimbursement-program-helped-rebuild-2961-homes-while-houstons-helped-only-119/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glo-reimbursement-program-helped-rebuild-2961-homes-while-houstons-helped-only-119 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:06:19 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=24040 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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]]> 105391 City of Houston Couldn’t Even Give Away Harvey Aid Due to Bureaucratic Bungling https://houstonnewmedia.org/city-of-houston-couldnt-even-give-away-harvey-aid-due-to-bureaucratic-bungling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=city-of-houston-couldnt-even-give-away-harvey-aid-due-to-bureaucratic-bungling Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:34:38 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=23847 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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