Partner Funds - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/partner-funds/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Wed, 11 May 2022 22:06:20 +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 Partner Funds - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/partner-funds/ 32 32 103504436 Of Active HCFCD Bond Construction Spending Totaling $226 Million, Lake Houston Area Has $2 Thousand https://houstonnewmedia.org/of-active-hcfcd-bond-construction-spending-totaling-226-million-lake-houston-area-has-2-thousand/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=of-active-hcfcd-bond-construction-spending-totaling-226-million-lake-houston-area-has-2-thousand Wed, 11 May 2022 22:06:20 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=32579 Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) delivered its March 2022 Flood Bond Spending Update yesterday to Commissioners Court. It shows $226,476,745 dollars worth of active capital construction projects underway throughout the county. But only two of those valued at a grand total of $2,000 are in the Lake Houston Area. That’s less than one-tenth of […]

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]]> 321716 Equity Myth Buster: “Rich Neighborhoods Get All the Flood-Mitigation Funding” https://houstonnewmedia.org/equity-myth-buster-rich-neighborhoods-get-all-the-flood-mitigation-funding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=equity-myth-buster-rich-neighborhoods-get-all-the-flood-mitigation-funding Thu, 30 Dec 2021 03:28:05 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=30332 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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]]> 226502 “Excluding” Partner Funds Could Lead to Shortfalls in Flood-Mitigation Funding https://houstonnewmedia.org/excluding-partner-funds-could-lead-to-shortfalls-in-flood-mitigation-funding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=excluding-partner-funds-could-lead-to-shortfalls-in-flood-mitigation-funding Tue, 28 Dec 2021 02:18:27 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=30279 The new Harris County Administrator has proposed “excluding” potential partner funds from consideration in the allocation of flood-bond and flood-resilience trust dollars. There’s only one problem with that. Without partnership funds, there won’t nearly be enough money to cover all the proposed flood-mitigation projects in the bond, the trust, or future bonds. The data above […]

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]]> 225324 “Excluding” Partner Funds Could Lead to Shortfalls in Flood-Mitigation Funding https://houstonnewmedia.org/excluding-partner-funds-could-lead-to-shortfalls-in-flood-mitigation-funding-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=excluding-partner-funds-could-lead-to-shortfalls-in-flood-mitigation-funding-2 Tue, 28 Dec 2021 02:18:27 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=30279 The new Harris County Administrator has proposed “excluding” potential partner funds from consideration in the allocation of flood-bond and flood-resilience trust dollars. There’s only one problem with that. Without partnership funds, there won’t nearly be enough money to cover all the proposed flood-mitigation projects in the bond, the trust, or future bonds. The data above […]

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