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Texas Appleseed works with a network of organizations in Texas and across the country to ensure that all levels of government respond to natural disasters in a fair and timely manner, prioritize rebuilding and repair of affordable housing, and include hardest hit communities and low-income families in plans for long-term recovery.
Latest News
The State of Texas is revising its Disaster Recovery Action Plan to redirect $355 million in federal recovery funds to Southeast Texas and other hardest hit areas struggling to rebuild after the 2008 Hurricanes Ike and Dolly. The State also has agreed to reserve 55 percent of all federal recovery dollars for housing programs and for recovery benefitting low- and moderate-income people. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development praised this approach — which addresses concerns raised by Texas Appleseed and the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service in a complaint filed with HUD several months ago. HUD has approved the Conciliation Agreement reached between the State and the advocacy groups.
HEADLINES:
Current FEMA Disaster Recovery Policy Will Leave Low-Income Hurricane Survivors Unassisted, Texas Housers blog, 7.1.2010
HUD Steps Up In Texas, The New York Times, 6.14.2010
Recovery HUD Applauds State's New Ike Funds Plan, The Galveston Daily News, 5.26.2010
Amended Ike Plan Means $1.7 Billion in Fed Funds, Associated Press in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5.26.2010
New State Recovery Plan Shifts Millions to Galveston, Houston Areas, Houston Chronicle, 5.25.2010
HUD Applauds Revised Texas $1.7 Billion Hurricane Recovery Plan, KFDM-TV, Channel 6 - Beaumont, 5.25.2010
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Project Timeline
June 14, 2010 The New York Times publishes an editorial praising HUD for requiring Texas to spend hundreds of millions in federal disaster recovery funds "as Congress intended and fairness requires" — on areas with the worst hurricane damage, with a fair share reserved for housing and for the low-income. The editorial singles out the work of Texas Appleseed and the Texas Low Income Housing Authority.
HUD Steps Up In Texas, The New York Times, June 14, 2010
May 25, 2010 The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development issues release praising State of Texas' new direction in disaster recovery planning -- and announcing approval of the Conciliation Agreement between the State, Texas Appleseed & the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service.
HUD Press Release
May 21, 2010 HUD signs the Conciliation Agreement negotiated between the State of Texas, Texas Appleseed & the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service. Approved Conciliation Agreement
February 7, 2010 Texas Appleseed joins the Fair Housing Complaint filed by TxLIHIS with HUD.
Fair Housing Complaint
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Pro Bono Partners & Funders
Texas Appleseed is grateful to our current pro bono partners, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., Greenberg Traurig, LLP and Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP; to economic analyst Kevin G. Jewell; to W.K. Kellogg Foundation for their generous support; and to JPMorgan Chase Foundation for their support of heir property reform. Through generous funding from Mayer, Brown LLP, a Mayer Brown Legal Fellow position was created at Texas Appleseed to work on hurricane-related issues in Texas and the Gulf Coast region. The Equal Justice Works' Katrina Initiative also awarded Texas Appleseed a legal fellowship, which was fully funded by Greenberg Traurig LLP.
Publications
A Continuing Storm: The Ongoing Struggles of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Appleseed, 2006
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