Voluntary buyout program for Houstonians in the flood plain

[TexasBushwhacker]

https://www.hcfcd.org/our-programs/property-acquisition-program/voluntary-acquisition/voluntary-home-buyout/

Please note. This program is for Harris County only and does not provide emergency funds for rebuilding or relocation. I think it's probably most appropriate for people who own their homes outright.

[Warpy]

1. At least it's a start.

A more rational program would claim houses on filled wetlands via eminent domain and making sure another money grubbing asshole doesn't try to sell the same land to someone else to be built on and flooded out.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. I think they are trying to make "voluntary" work first

[Igel]

3. "Wetlands" in this definition is a continuum.

From houses that flood easily, deep in a 100-year floodplain to houses that flooded this time but are outside a 500-year floodplain. I live in wetlands according to some in Houston. The area pretty much never has standing water, but soaks up water. It was scrub, pushing towards prairie. It wasn't filled.

Louisiana wetlands are very much not what they mean when they talk about wetlands in Houston. They use the same word, they know they don't mean the same thing, they know you assume they mean the same thing.

Probably half the houses that flooded this time are outside the 500-year floodplain, anyway, and another large chunk are in 500-year floodplains.

This was at least two floods combined, and it's hard looking at a flooded house to know which flood got it (in some cases, both). It's also hard to tell who's in a 100- versus a 500- versus non-floodplain. Not even all the 100-year floodplains were flooded this time.