When Climate Change Makes You Sell Your House
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🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
With disaster relief funds from Hurricane Harvey, Houston's Harris County instituted a mandatory buyout program for residents in flood-prone areas. But some residents didn't want to leave.
Guest: Amal Ahmed, Dolores Mendoza
Host: Mary C. Curtis
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| 1:07.8 | The Houston neighborhood of Allen Field is in fancy. It's a little too street neighborhood. |
| 1:13.3 | There's one way in, one way out. We didn't even have streetlights growing up. I mean, |
| 1:17.2 | that's how small of a community it was. No streetlights, no stop signs or nothing. |
| 1:21.3 | But when Dolores Mendoza, who grew up in Allen Field, moved out to give her daughter the |
| 1:28.3 | nice house and the suburbs, well, it didn't quite work out as planned. I hated it. I didn't even, |
| 1:34.4 | I lasted barely over a year. I moved right back. Dolores missed the place where she grew up. |
| 1:40.8 | And I came from an area where my mom lived next door, my uncle lived next door to my mom, |
| 1:46.5 | my grandma lived next door to my uncle. Even as I got older and I moved back, my sister lived |
| 1:52.9 | across the street for me, my other sister lived next door to me. So every other house was an |
| 1:59.2 | immediate family member. The sense of community in an area that's so small and rural that there |
| 2:04.8 | isn't much data on the population, save Dalon Field whenever floods came, which was a regular |
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