The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has concluded there was “no reasonable cause” to believe Texas officials discriminated based on race or national origin when distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster aid.
In a letter closing its civil rights investigation, HUD said earlier findings that the Texas General Land Office, or GLO, unfairly favored rural white communities were “fatally flawed — legally and factually.” The letter stated that after reviewing more than 80,000 pages of documents, investigators found no evidence the GLO acted with discriminatory intent.
