NR Daily: Piling on Houston

Editor's note: This piece originally appeared at Strong Towns. It is republished here, with minor changes approved by the author, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 'These are Americans. They're our neighbors. If not Houston, who else?" These were the words of Issa Dadoush, Houston's director of building services, twelve years ago when Katrina devastated New Orleans. Sixty thousand evacuees were welcomed into Houston and nearly three times that many ultimately made the city their new home. Harris County judge Robert Eckels said that Katrina was probably Houston's "finest moment ...

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