Legal-Aid Groups Fight for Texans’ Disaster Relief

"As Texas hurricane victims struggle to get back on their feet, legal-aid groups are helping them navigate a sometimes baffling federal-aid claims process and push back against landlords eager to evict them from flooded apartments.

Melba Ponce, 65, doesn’t understand how the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied her claim for home-repair assistance.

Ponce lives in Beeville, 60 miles northwest of where Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Corpus Christi as a Category 4 storm on Aug. 25..."

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