Houston Chronicle by Jeremy Wallace Oct. 9, 2019
Two years of finger pointing over the slow rebuilding of homes damaged in Hurricane Harvey took on a new level of political intensity on Tuesday as Democratic Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott attacked each other on social media.
The jabs come less than a month before voters decide whether Turner will get a second term in office, and as his opponents make Harvey a key part of their campaigns.
Nine months after the city got access to federal funds for home repairs, just 80 Houston homeowners have been approved for the funding, state records show.
On Twitter, Turner accused the state of a “money grab†after Abbott announced last week state officials will manage $4.3 billion in federal flooding mitigation fundsinstead of passing the funds to cities and counties, as it did with the home rebuilding money. In addition, Turner blamed the state for moving too slowly on past disaster recovery money dating back to 2008 when Hurricane Ike hit Texas.
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