One-for-One Housing Replacement Plan

HARRIS COUNTY POST DISASTER RELOCATION AND BUYOUT PROGRAM
ONE-FOR-ONE HOUSING REPLACEMENT PLAN

Harris County, Texas, is implementing a Post Disaster Relocation and Buyout Program (the Buyout Program) within seven areas of the county that have experienced repetitive flooding. Harris County’s future flood resilience and the safety of our residents, businesses and first responders depend upon returning repetitively flooding areas to green space. Funds for the acquisition of homes in Harris County’s flood inundation areas are provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program. Harris County is a subrecipient of funding granted to the State of Texas General Land Office.

To ensure that CDBG-DR funds are not used to remove affordable housing options, HUD requires one-for-one replacement of all affordable homes which have not been substantially damaged so would otherwise have been suitable for rehabilitation. In compliance with HUD’s one-for-one replacement requirement, the Post Disaster Relocation and Buyout Program has identified the following:

• 114 properties are planned for demolition by the Buyout Program. 
• The extent of damage to 8 of the 114 properties has yet to be determined.
• 72 of the 114 properties are substantially damaged and require no replacement.
• 34 of the 114 properties are not substantially damaged.
  • 28 properties of those 34 properties classify as affordable and must be replaced. Of the affordable homes being demolished, there are:
    • 2 two-bedroom units
    • 14 three-bedroom units
    • 6 four-bedroom units
    • 3 five-bedroom
    • 2 six-bedroom units
    • 1 eleven-bedroom unit

Harris County has partnered with multiple developers in the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing units, ensuring that there are substantially more than enough affordable units recently completed or under construction to provide replacement units for those demolished through the Buyout Program. Both single-family and multifamily affordable housing units have been added to the market. HUD requires that replacement units remain affordable to low-to-moderate income households for at least 10 years. Harris County has met this requirement with all newly constructed single-family units and exceeded it with the multifamily replacement units, which carry land-use regulatory agreements requiring that they remain affordable for 20 years.

A list showing the location and status of replacement housing follows. For more information on these affordable housing developments, contact Harris County Housing and Community Development at 832-927-4955. 

Harris County promotes fair housing and makes all programs available regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin or disability.