HOUSTON—During the lengthy process of rebuilding, all involved have acknowledged it will take time for normalcy to return for Harvey-displaced residents. As part of this effort, Avenue has unveiled its new housing recovery center, a 4,000-square-foot facility in the Near Northside. The facility is designed to help Harvey-impacted Houstonians navigate the path to home recovery. Berenice Yu, Avenue director of asset building programs, recently discussed how this facility will help residents get back on their feet and the overall process in this exclusive.
GlobeSt.com: The recovery process will be lengthy. What type of time estimates do you predict will be required to get people back on their feet?
Yu: The general guidelines we follow for community recovery indicate that we should expect 100 days for every day of the storm. With Harvey, we saw significant rainfall over a period of 10 days, so we are looking at an estimated 1,000 days for the Houston area to recover.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
