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Re: One Houston suburb devastated by Harvey is sure to flood again, yet speculators are making a killing buying and reselling storm-damaged homes

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Remember, in Texas there are virtually NO building codes. Look at West, TX. They allowed a school and a nursing home to built next to a chemical fertilizer plant, and look what happened there:

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One Houston suburb devastated by Harvey is sure to flood again, yet speculators are making a killing buying and reselling storm-damaged homes
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Sun, 25 Mar 18 1:17 AM
Msg. 42136 of 65535

One Houston suburb devastated by Harvey is sure to flood again, yet speculators are making a killing buying and reselling storm-damaged homes
Saturday, March 24, 2018 3:18 PM EST

Canyon Gate’s fate lays bare a dilemma for coastal areas in a time of climate change: Many of the neighborhoods where we live should never have been built in the first place, and returning could make the consequences of the next disaster much more severe.

But in the short term, speculators are profiting from the urge to rebuild.

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