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Billions are spent on housing after disasters. Why does recovery take so long?

by Elizabeth Trovall
Nov 12, 2024
Federal funding doesn't become available for rebuilding efforts until an average of two years after a storm, one study showed.
After a natural disaster, it can take years for states to receive HUD and FEMA rebuilding funds. Above, flooding in Houston, Texas after Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
Thomas Shea/AFP via Getty Images
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My Analog Life

How one family business kept old things running for 82 years

by Maria Hollenhorst
Aug 12, 2024
The Schulze family fixed appliances and home furnishings in Richmond, Texas for 82 years.
Arthur D. Schulze, father of Kenneth Schulze and founder of Schulze Home Furnishings, at the Ford Bend Country Fair in 1946.
Courtesy Schulze family
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Nashville's downtown is still recovering a year after a bombing rocked the area

by Damon Mitchell
Dec 24, 2021
The Christmas Day bombing impacted dozens of businesses. Some have relocated, while others are waiting for the city to rebuild.
Buildings damaged in the Christmas Day 2020 bombing stand on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville. Some businesses have relocated out of the district.
Damon Mitchell/WPLN News
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A year after a deadly tornado in Tennessee, people weigh the decision to rebuild

by Blake Farmer
Mar 3, 2021
Rebuilding has been slowed by the pandemic, fears about future storms and the pain of lost lives.
Survivors have been dealing with the tornado's aftermath, from rebuilding homes to post-traumatic stress and grieving for lost loved ones.
Brett Carlsen/Getty Images
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Bond remains strong between Puerto Rican evacuees and those who stayed

by Renata Sago
Dec 22, 2017
Families, now divided between the mainland and the island, start new endeavors and try to preserve old ties.
Wireless internet at an extended-stay FEMA hotel in Orlando is the main way the Hernandezes keep in touch with family still in Puerto Rico.
Renata Sago/Marketplace
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10 years after Katrina

New Orleans' mayor: Storm's crux was levee failure

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 17, 2015
Mitch Landrieu talks about the need to invest in infrastructure post-Katrina.
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10 years after Katrina

Banking on a New Orleans recovery

by Caitlin Esch
Aug 4, 2015
When New Orleans flooded, Liberty Bank — itself devastated — helped to rebuild.
Alden McDonald, (left) President and CEO of Liberty Bank, walks the perimeter of a branch under construction in New Orleans' Gentilly neighborhood, with his son Todd McDonald, a Vice President of Strategic Management at Liberty.
Caitlin Esch
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