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Economic Policy

What Hurricane Harvey can teach us about the failure of federal disaster policy

For Vice, I traveled to Houston to figure out why Hurricane Harvey caused the credit scores of homeowners in low-income neighborhoods to drop by an average of 24 points.

Nearly two years after America’s biggest rain event, Houston’s wealthy neighborhoods have fully bounced back, while lower-income residents, systematically denied relief, were left poorer and sicker.