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Using a Buyout Strategy to Make Houston More Resilient

Erica Vilay, Phil Pollman • July 9, 2020

The city of Houston could better protect and aid the approximately 18,000 people who live in the city’s repeated flood prone areas if it created an integrated home buyout…
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Floodway Buyout Strategy for a Resilient Houston

Erica Vilay, Phil Pollman • July 9, 2020

Houston, Texas, America’s most diverse and fourth-largest city, is the most flooded city in the United States. Houston’s geography and urban planning make flooding and water…
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Is Lead Exposure a Form of Housing Inequality?

Alix Winter, Robert Sampson • January 2, 2020

The primary sources of contemporary lead exposure are chipping paint, water pipes, and lead remaining in soil from gasoline exhaust and smelting plants. Household lead paint…