Nearly a year after Hurricane Harvey swamped the Texas Gulf Coast, a growing share of affected residents say their lives are back on track, but three in 10 (30%) say their lives remain disrupted, finds a Kaiser Family Foundation/Episcopal Health Foundation survey of residents in 24 hard-hit Texas counties.
The tool matches a map of Hurricane Harvey FEMA application and approval data with a map using the Social Vulnerability Index. Social vulnerability refers to the resilience of communities when confronted by external stresses on human health, stresses such as natural disasters. Click below to use the interactive map.
Immigrants living along the Texas Gulf Coast were more likely than their U.S.-born neighbors to suffer employment and income losses as a result of Hurricane Harvey (64% vs. 39%), a new Kaiser Family Foundation/Episcopal Health Foundation analysis finds.
Residents in the Golden Triangle are more likely to have been adversely impacted by Hurricane Harvey than residents in most other regions across the Texas Gulf Coast, finds a comprehensive Episcopal Health Foundation/Kaiser Family Foundation survey of residents in 24 hard-hit counties. Plus, an EHF analysis of latest FEMA data finds roughly half of Golden Triangle residents who applied for housing assistance have been approved.
This interactive map shows zip-code level data on total applications submitted to FEMA for individual assistance, plus approval rates.
Two-thirds (66%) of residents across 24 Texas counties report that they suffered property damage, employment disruptions and/or lost income due to Hurricane Harvey, finds a new Episcopal Health Foundation/Kaiser Family Foundation survey. One in nine residents in these hardest-hit counties remain displaced from their homes three months after the storm.
