Houston’s housing authority was planning to redevelop Irvinton Village, a public housing development not far from White Oak Music Hall, using the same grant it is using to catalyze the $671 million redevelopment of Cuney Homes and the surrounding Third Ward.
Then came the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s draft of its updated flood maps, which placed 85% of the public housing in the 100-year flood plain.
END OF AN ERA:Houston Housing Authority phasing out public housing, long starved for funds, in shift to vouchers…