Manuel Chavez Jr. sleeps on a mattress on the floor of a house Hurricane Ike flooded a year ago.
There are holes in the roof where a tree fell through, leaving blackened tufts of insulation poking through the ceiling. There is a spider-web pattern of fissures in the floor where an uprooted tree cracked the concrete foundation. Drywall hidden behind a layer of gray stucco is moldy and rotten. The air-conditioning doesn’t work.
Kemah city officials told Chavez he can’t live in these shabby conditions. He must repair his house and elevate it — or he must leave.
Officials in Kemah and Clear Lake Shores warned the owners of at least seven other storm-damaged houses they must repair or demolish their properties.
But Chavez and others say they can’t afford the repairs. The flood of federal dollars that was supposed to help needy people repair and rebuild their hurricane-damaged houses haven’t arrived.
Though the federal government set aside $3 billion help people and communities recover from hurricanes Ike and Dolly, some people who need help the most can’t get it.
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There are holes in the roof where a tree fell through, leaving blackened tufts of insulation poking through the ceiling. There is a spider-web pattern of fissures in the floor where an uprooted tree cracked the concrete foundation. Drywall hidden behind a layer of gray stucco is moldy and rotten. The air-conditioning doesn’t work.
Kemah city officials told Chavez he can’t live in these shabby conditions. He must repair his house and elevate it — or he must leave.
Officials in Kemah and Clear Lake Shores warned the owners of at least seven other storm-damaged houses they must repair or demolish their properties.
But Chavez and others say they can’t afford the repairs. The flood of federal dollars that was supposed to help needy people repair and rebuild their hurricane-damaged houses haven’t arrived.
Though the federal government set aside $3 billion help people and communities recover from hurricanes Ike and Dolly, some people who need help the most can’t get it.
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