Editorial: Build on Houston s affordable housing successes. Don t take away the tools.
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To understand just how welcome the new luxury apartment complex is that’s rising at
the corner of West Dallas and Montrose, recall the fire that consumed the $50 million development at that site in 2014.
Seconds before the five-story structure collapsed in flames, a construction worker stuck on the top floor swung himself like
Spider-Man down to a lower balcony and then leapt off the railing into the arms of a waiting firefighter.
A welder’s torch had apparently sparked the fire, but the dramatic scene captured on video of the dangling worker and the smoking wreckage begged for interpretation as a symbol for Houston’s explosive boom and bust cycle. For years, Houston had ridden high on oil and gas while the rest of America was mired in the hangover from the 2008 Great Recession. Across Houston, aging garden apartments came down fast to make way for luxury towers
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the problematic one is look how far around this area we have incredibly heavy rain falling. because of that, you have to drive 100 miles in one direction or another ticket out of there. 100 miles per the roads are flooded. it isn t an option of driving unless it is last resort, which are not going to get very far. one thing to know, this is still the track from hurricane harvey, still a tropical storm. winds and 45 miles per hour. notice officially oppose it to the south over the next day and up towards the north right through the houston area. that will keep the moisture here and that is why we still expect to see some heavy rainfall in very large rainfall totals. yesterday talking about 50-inch rainfall totals down a little bit closer towards the storm on windfall. we will see those totals at some point, but is likely to be further up towards the east towards the houston area and not
move. perhaps these cars are also seeking high ground. we are headed pretty much towards the downtown area, the galleria area, the sort of western part of hughes and. i don t even know what to keep saying about this rain. it just is relentless. the underpass as we go where we can sort of gather some shelter and repositioning. you see just a gallon dumping from the streets and neighborhood in the commercial areas around here like that. but you know, we do fortunately still see power. the lights on, that is a good sign. the roads in houston and we pointed this out, it just can t be overstated. the slow lane parts are the areas of houston that make it
governor greg abbott with 50 counties under a disaster declaration is absolutely catastrophic flooding. when the people returning to neighborhoods that look like war zones. rockport, corpus christi the hardest hit. rob schmidt now in corpus christi, texas at the latest in that area. good morning. good morning, guys. we are in a marina off downtown corpus christi which is the biggest city in the area where the hurricane came ashore, about 25 miles tonight use. it came very close but just the buffer of 25 miles to give a lot of protection. behind me there is some damage to be seen. this is landry s patio grill on the water near downtown with an unwanted convertible top by the storm. the roof land right here on the driveway in front of landry. you can see there was some damage. we did find a building that had decided the wall ripped off and we watched yesterday morning at