What I learned reporting on housing and economic inequality after Hurricane Harvey [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

Alicia Doktor 2/25/194:12 PM

“Forgotten.”

In the months after Hurricane Harvey slammed the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm, that was the word I heard repeatedly from renters, homeowners and disaster case managers in small towns and rural communities.

The help that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and state leaders promised hadn’t arrived. They feared their communities would be left behind, overshadowed by larger cities like Houston. In some cases, their homes looked as if Harvey had just hit — not the year before.

[For more on this story by Marina Starleaf Riker, go to https://www.centerforhealthjou...ter-hurricane-harvey]

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