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After Hurricane Harvey

Failures in a Flood Zone

In 2016, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune sounded the alarm that Houston’s overdevelopment and underestimation of flood risk had made it a sitting duck for the next big storm. Then, Hurricane Harvey hit.

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Journalism That Holds Power to Account

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