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Race, Class Impact Houston Resisdents’ Recovery From Hurricane Harvey | Colorlines

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Race, Class Impact Houston Resisdents’ Recovery From Hurricane Harvey | Colorlines

Ayana Byrd, Colorlines
Kristopher Garner helps begin the process of cleaning up the damage to his grandmothers property after torrential rains caused widespread flooding during Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on September 1, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images), Featured Image



[dropcap]Hurricane[/dropcap] Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, devastating Houston and its surrounding areas. More than a year later, with much of the state recovered, lower-income earning Houstonians of color are still disproportionately displaced from their homes. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

Hurricane Harvey, African American Communities, African American Lives, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'DEvacuees sit on a boat after being rescued from flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 30, 2017 in Port Arthur, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Hurricane Harvey, African American Communities, African American Lives, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'DHOUSTON, TX – AUGUST 29: People take shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center after flood waters from Hurricane Harvey inundated the city on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. The evacuation center which is overcapacity has already received more than 9,000 evacuees with more arriving. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Yesterday (September 3), The New York Times examined the lives of the people the newspaper called “Houston’s most vulnerable” population—Black and Latinx Texans on the brink of homelessness as a result of Harvey, many of whom were denied assistance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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