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The Neighborhood That Keeps Flooding and the Residents Who Refuse To Leave

The Neighborhood That Keeps Flooding and the Residents Who Refuse To Leave

FromCity Cast Houston


The Neighborhood That Keeps Flooding and the Residents Who Refuse To Leave

FromCity Cast Houston

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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Feb 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Some Houston neighborhoods seem to flood every time it rains. So why do people keep rebuilding there? After Hurricane Harvey, sociologist Rachel Kimbro, dean of Rice's school of social science, interviewed 36 women in one of Houston's frequent-flooding neighborhoods. Today she joins host Lisa Gray to talk about her book, In Too Deep, and how it gets into the ways of how families and neighborhoods work.

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Released:
Feb 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Food, culture, news and nature in the sweaty Bayou City. Join Host Lisa Gray and the City Cast Houston team as we celebrate and interrogate this sprawling place with our favorite journalists, thinkers, leaders, neighbors and gadflies. Learn more and subscribe to our daily morning newsletter at houston.citycast.fm.