New Orleans Keisha Monk made the front page of the New York Times. I doubt if this was on her top ten list of life’s hopes and dreams. She lives, or at least lived until recently, in the Trent Court public housing project in New Bern, North Carolina, which turned out to be in the …
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Hurricane Harvey, One Year Later
New Orleans Given Houston’s experiences with its own flooding and hurricanes and its welcoming and sheltering of thousands after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it would have seemed safe to assume that if any city could respond well to disaster, it must be Houston. A year after Hurricane Harvey, the answer is clear: not Houston …
Houston Landlords and Banks Need Pressure, Tenants and Owners Need Help
Houston Going into Beaumont on Interstate 10, one exit after another was still closed off. Water was still standing. Trailers in a park near a small lake were still submerged with water coming up to the shoulder of the highway. Spotted along the route in one random location after another were abandoned cars and trucks, …