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</div> <p>Although 180,000 houses in the Houston area are consumed with flood water, some landlords in the Houston area are still demanding rent for buildings that Hurricane Harvey rendered mostly unlivable. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/04/hurricane-harvey-landlords-demand-rent-for-flooded-homes" target="_blank">According to the Guardian</a>, Texas landlords are playing fast and loose with state law dictating that tenants are still liable for rent if their home is “partially unusable” from a disaster rather than “totally unusable.&#8221; Granted, tenants of flooded properties may disagree with landlords over what makes a home &#8220;partially unusable.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Our landlords say we have to pay rent and late fees and every day it is going up,” Pasadena, Texas resident Rocio Fuentes told the Guardian. “We are paying rent for somewhere we can’t live in. They said ‘you aren’t the only ones in this situation’, but what are we supposed to do? We don’t have any money. We don’t have anything.”</p>
<p>Fuentes lived in an apartment with her husband Jaime and five children, but had to flee when their home was flooded. Now the family is holed up in a relative&#8217;s apartment without a source of income because Jaime&#8217;s construction job was suspended due to hurricane damage.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Harvey-evacuees-being-evicted-from-still-flooded-12172011.php" target="_blank">Houston Chronicle reported</a> that Houston resident James Eaton was hit with heavy late fees and the threat of eviction despite his job closing amid the hurricane:</p>
<blockquote><p>When his employer closed last week due to the storm, Houstonian James Eaton didn&#8217;t get paid and couldn&#8217;t pay his rent at the Linda Vista apartment complex in northwest. Residents had been informed that late fees would not be waived and that those who couldn&#8217;t pay would be locked out of their apartments. The complex confirmed that late fees would not be waived.</p>
<p>Even though a lease agreement may be void if the rental is uninhabitable, rent is still due by law, unless a rental company chooses to waive late fees.</p>
<p>Officials and clergy from The Metropolitan Organization are calling on Houston-area landlords to give renters a grace period of at least three weeks.</p></blockquote>
<p>FEMA has provided hotel rooms for Houston residents in need of shelter in the wake of Harvey, but the demand for housing far outweighs the supply. “FEMA is going to be [in Texas] for years,” FEMA administrator <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/petition-fema-funding-border-wall_us_59a6e5d0e4b084581a14e6d2" target="_blank">Brock Long said</a>. “This disaster is going to be a landmark event.”</p>
<p>It&#8217;s certainly a landmark event for families who have lost their livelihoods and are still on the hook for rental properties they can&#8217;t live in.</p>
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