Hurricane Harvey Victims: More than 20,000 Children in Houston are Homeless, Report Shows

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek Magazine




BY CARLOS BALLESTEROS ON 11/26/17 AT 1:54 PM

The destruction levied by Hurricane Harvey still reverberates across Houston.

According to local reports, tens of thousands of Houston residents lack stable housing three months after the storm made landfall, living in trailers, tents, shelters, and in what the Houston Chronicle calls “barely habitable homes.” Over 22,000 of those without a home are children, while some 47,000 Harvey victims stay in hotel rooms paid for by the federal government at a tune of $2.8 million a day.

Officials say that the blame falls on government agencies at all levels for not doling out aid fast enough.

“We are behind where we need to be, city, state and federal,” Tom McCasland, director of Houston’s housing and community development department, told the Chronicle earlier this week. “It’s time to get these programs out in the community, get hammers swinging, get people moving back into their homes.”



Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/hurricane-harvey-victims-homeless-fema-722640

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Ted Cruz will get right on it.

Yah,right.

[DBoon]

2. Ted Cruz will pray for them

and then God can find them shelter

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Joe Barton too

since he voted against any aid at all for Harvey damage.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. "Good luck to those kids!"

It'll toughen them up for the GOP's survival-of-the-fittest world

[OldHippieChick]

5. My friend from Houston lost everything in Harvey -

her (1/2 mil) home and all furnishings. She stayed w/ neighbors and has been in Atlanta working remotely for the last two months. She had to return to Houston as the boss wouldn't let her continue working remotely. She will have to continue paying the mortgage and utilities until that is figured out and she will need to pay rent somewhere to live. She is far from being the most needy as she obviously makes a good enough living to afford a 1/2 mil home. Mind you she is 60+ and has been working for over 40 years - yes mostly in oil and gas, but still she is deserving of some human compassion. The shockingly slow response is costing us all, not just the victims.

[Gothmog]

6. Houston is doing better than Puerto Rico but is not getting the needed help