[CPEO-BIF] "Is Houston [Texas] building low-income housing on contaminated site?"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Is Houston building low-income housing on contaminated site?


By Greg Groogan
FOX 26 Houston (TX)
July 12, 2023

HOUSTON - An environmental controversy heating up on Houston's east side where neighborhood activists believe City Hall is looking the other way despite evidence of legacy contamination.

At issue is a multimillion dollar, 400-unit housing project for low and middle income Houstonians at 800 Middle Street. It's being constructed with public dollars on land activists believe is contaminated with cancer-causing material.

On Wednesday, protesters greeted Mayor Sylvester Turner at an East-side gathering, but got no comment regarding the controversial Houston Housing Authority project being built adjacent to City's old Velasco trash incineration site.

"The Mayor's office decided to build this 400-unit low income housing project in the worst imaginable spot and the most contaminated property anywhere on Buffalo Bayou," said Alan Atkinson, a longtime critic of the project.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/is-houston-building-low-income-housing-on-contaminated-site


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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