Louisiana officials announced today that they will let applicants for a federal home-elevation grant program collect as much as $100,000 for raising their houses above base flood levels, rather than ...

A major home-lifting contractor ran a private sting operation in Meraux a few weeks ago, allegedly caught seven of its competitors on video violating federal grant rules and got them suspended from ...

A program that aims to elevate thousands of homes in southwest Louisiana to heights that would keep them above 100-year flood levels through at least 2075 could begin next May with the first 27 houses ...

The embattled owner of a home elevation company that had halted or failed to start work on about 20 jobs it had pending on flooded houses in Houston, saying his company was in financial distress, has ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates a proposed plan to elevate or floodproof nearly 3,300 homes, businesses and other buildings in the Amite River Basin would take 10 years to complete and ...

An E&E News investigation reveals discrimination against people of color and low-income households. But alleged civil rights violations would be difficult to prove in court. Federal programs that have ...

When flood waters come, as they frequently have been in Southeast Texas over the past decade, it often leaves homeowners to decide whether to move up or move out. Fortunately, funds from the Federal ...

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(TNS) - A program that aims to elevate thousands of homes in southwest Louisiana to heights that would keep them above 100-year flood levels through at least 2075 could begin next May with the first ...