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'We don't have anything'
Displaced families say they are struggling to pay rent on damaged dwellings,
as an acute housing crisis grips south-east Texas after Hurricane Harvey
Oliver Milman
Monday 4 September 2017
Rocio Fuentes weighed up the cost of getting some new sofas for her new apartment in Pasadena, Texas, and decided the family budget could just about stretch to it. Just one month after moving in, Hurricane Harvey swept
through and the Fuenteses were left not only with the ruined furniture but
also an ongoing rental demand for a dwelling they had to flee.
“At first we didn’t think it would be that bad, but then the water came through the wall and up through the carpet,” Fuentes said. “Once we saw the water wasn’t going to stop, we left.”
After Harvey, it's clear the secret of Houston's success has also been its downfall.
Fuentes, her husband Jaime and their five children, ages ranging from seven months to 14 years, were plucked from the floodwaters by her mother, who arrived in a truck. They are now crammed into her sister’s apartment and
with no insurance have little idea where they will live next. Jaime is
unable to earn money because his construction job has been paused due to the flooding.
But while everything has changed for this family, they are still expected to pay for their abandoned home.
“Our landlords say we have to pay rent and late fees and every day it is going up,” Fuentes said. “We are paying rent for somewhere we can’t live in.
They said ‘you aren’t the only ones in this situation’, but what are we supposed to do? We don’t have any money. We don’t have anything.”
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/04/hurricane-harvey-landlords-dema nd-rent-for-flooded-homes
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