Crime, flooding and street conditions top the list of concerns for likely Houston voters in this November’s mayoral election, according to a poll released Tuesday by the University of Houston ...

Cuts made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Trump administration severely impaired its ability to respond ...

For years, money for flood protection in the Houston area went mostly to richer neighborhoods. A new approach prioritizes minority communities, and it’s stirring up resentments.

More than half of the candidates who responded to Houston Public Media’s flood survey said Houston should stop building new construction in the 100-year floodplain.

Controversy erupted after a fundraiser for Sade Perkins, a former Houston official who made racial comments about the 27 ...

Houston Matters Staying in flood-prone areas (June 27, 2023) On Tuesday’s show: A recent study from Rice University outlines the role race plays in the reasons people stay in flood-prone areas.

A Houston neighborhood flooded after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Harris County is the largest recipient of federal dollars for buyouts of homes in flood-prone areas.

A Texas agency discriminated against communities of color when it denied more than $1 billion in federal relief funds sought by Houston and Harris County to help hard-hit areas recover from ...

In April 2020, the GLO stripped Houston from having control of $1.2 billion in federal Hurricane Harvey housing aid, saying the city "hindered" recovery for thousands of 2017 flood victims still ...

During the race, several of Bush’s opponents have criticized his office’s work in distributing aid By andrew zhang , Joshua Fechter , The Texas Tribune March 8, 2022 ...

Two proposed reservoirs northwest of Houston could have saved 542 downstream structures from flooding during Hurricane Harvey, according to the results of a feasibility study that will soon be ...

The Texas General Land Office — the agency charged with distributing approximately $2 billion in federal funds for future flood preparation — initially awarded Houston and Harris County ...