I thought there was no flood insurance within the 50 year flood zone
Only fools live within the 50 year flood zone
Houston doesn’t have zoning laws. Build what you want where you want. What could possibly go wrong?
Houston has half a million illegals needing housing.
I thought people weren’t even allowed to build in flood zones like that. Pretty sure they did not used to allow that.
I have to say in the late 70s early 80s I saw many designated flood plains become re-designated for housing. I once had to talk to someone on a construction crew and they were marking off a subdivision. We were all standing in water...and it had not rained in days. I wondered how that was going to work out.
In the 7 years I was there (before Katrina), metro New Orleans had at least 2, maybe 3, hundred year floods.