Racial and Ethnic Change in Floodplain Buyout Neighborhoods: Twenty-Five Years of Evidence from Houston
Journal of Planning Education and Research
Published online on December 17, 2025
Abstract
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This paper examines how floodplain buyouts funded through FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) have altered the racial and ethnic composition in Harris County, Texas, from 1990 to 2015. A quasi-experimental research design permits the attribution ...
This paper examines how floodplain buyouts funded through FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) have altered the racial and ethnic composition in Harris County, Texas, from 1990 to 2015. A quasi-experimental research design permits the attribution ...