After Hurricane Harvey, HUD allocated billions of dollars to help recovery efforts in flooded areas in Texas, which were overwhelmingly inhabited by low-income Black & Latino residents. But the intentions of the grant were thwarted by the state government.
And it’s not just in developing countries that people suffer excessively as the planet warms. Right here in the United States there is a stunning recent example of bigotry within the fight against climate change.with 30 inches of water and causing $16 billion in damage — the U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development allocated billions of dollars to help recovery efforts in flooded areas, which were overwhelmingly inhabited by low-income Black and Latino residents.
HUD concluded that the competition for grants “failed to comply” with its regulation that prohibits a recipient from utilizing criteria that has the effect of “subjecting persons to discrimination.” Drainage in Houston's lower-income neighborhoods is insufficient when it comes to dealing with big storms, let alone one like Hurricane Harvey, which was a Category 4 storm. Inadequate open drainage ditches that date back to the 1930s, rather than modern piping and gutters, are predominant in the city’s majority minority communities. These areas containof Houston’s overall drainage ditch total, according to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service.
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