A deadline has passed with no resolution over whether Texas will settle a dispute over claims it discriminated against minority residents in how it distributed flood relief money from Hurricane Harvey
Mal Moses looks over some of the remaining damage to his home from Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, in Houston. A local nonprofit, West Street Recovery, ultimately helped repair his home.
Texas had faced a Friday deadline to enter into a voluntary agreement to address an investigation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developmentthe Civil Rights Act of 1964 by causing there"to be disproportionately less funding available to benefit minority residents than was available to benefit white residents" in how it distributed more than $2 billion to fund flood mitigation projects after Harvey. That deadline passed without any resolution to the dispute.
for days, flooding more than 150,000 homes and 300,000 vehicles. The storm, which first made landfall more than 200 miles southwest of Houston near Corpus Christi on Aug. 25, 2017, killed 68 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage in Texas. Many residents still have not recovered. Where the money was spent is “so clearly not where the harm was done and where the risk is for future disasters,” said Ben Martin, research director for Texas Housers, an Austin-based nonprofit that joined Houston group Northeast Action Collective in filing the initial complaint with HUD.
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