Houston’s new floodplain rules will place ‘unbearable burden’ on poor, report says

Houston’s new requirements for elevating new or substantially renovated buildings in floodplains, set to take effect Saturday, will impose an “unreasonable and unbearable burden” on low-income families, a housing advocacy group says in a new report. The report by the Texas Low-Income Housing Information Service, an Austin-based nonprofit also known as Texas Housers, urges the city to improve drainage in these neighborhoods rather than burden residents with elevation costs that