Houstonians Adrift in Their City, Trying to Call Somewhere Home

By artappraiser on Mon, 09/11/2017 - 9:08am |

By Richard Fausset & Campbell Robertson from Houston @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 11

[....] Greater Houston is big enough, with enough dry and intact neighborhoods, to absorb many of the people whose own homes are now moldy and wrecked. But absorption is not always easy. The cleanup will take years, and many Houston residents are heading into autumn under unfamiliar roofs. They will be packing school lunches over hotel minibars, and packing themselves into the guest rooms of neighbors and relatives and friends. Some remain stranded in shelters, and others have returned, in desperation, to the stench of unrepaired homes. Here are the stories of five of those people, unmoored from the homes they knew, adrift in a city they know well [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/us/houston-harvey-home-displaced.html