Judge Lina Hidalgo spoke to ABC13 from Washington, where she's bidding to speed up the process of recovery for the dozens of county residents whose homes were damaged in last week's flooding.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo appealed to federal officials in Washington on Wednesday, hoping to speed up the process of buying out homes that flood repeatedly.
Roughly 50 Harris County homes were damaged in the flooding from the San Jacinto River. Hidalgo said the process is slow for homes that flood repeatedly. She met with FEMA and a senior White House advisor to quicken the process, later speaking with ABC13 via Zoom in the afternoon. "They're literally driving around all the streets that were affected or, we believe, might have been affected, and just trying to understand what the level of impact was," she said. "That will also affect our ability to get federal funding in terms of Small Business Administration loans, low-interest loans."
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