MEDIA

We hope to impact the families we work with directly, but know that changing the narrative is key to have an even broader impact. News coverage, and producing our own content that is spread by publications with a wider audience is key to that effort.

We challenge dominant narratives of disaster recovery by uplifting the voices of marginalized people, and connecting disasters to climate change and race and class structures. Through our media and communications work residents’ stories have been covered by New York Times, Vox, and Houston Chronicle.  View a full list of our media coverage here.

Selected Media Coverage

The American Disaster Relief System is Broken

Vice | April 9, 2020

Texas’ Freeze Was One Part of a Long Disaster We’re Still Living Through

Mother Jones | February 23, 2021

After the Storm: Talking "Just Recovery" with West Street Recovery

Houston Review of Books | April 5, 2021

2022 Media

By WSR staff and members:

A year ago Texans froze to death. Our leaders need to improve infrastructure, emergency aid

USA Today

February 14, 2022

Texas won’t fix the grid, so Houston must help prepare its residents

Houston Chronicle

February 18, 2022

External Coverage:

One year after Winter Storm Uri

Newsy

January 21, 2022

Nearly 5 years after Hurricane Harvey, thousands of Houston homeowners are still waiting for assistance – and might not get it

Houston Public Media

February 3, 2022

Hurricane Harvey survivors demand better investment, attention to drainage issues in NE Houston

ABC Channel 13

February 22, 2022

2021 Media

By WSR staff and members:

Put the people not industry at the center of Houston’s climate plans

Houston Chronicle

January 24, 2021

The Total Emptiness of the Texas Freeze

Rice Design Alliance

March 26, 2021

Just Recovery: How Community Response to the Texas 2021 Winter Storm Illustrates the World We Need

Undesign Disasters

April 8, 2021

Disaster Preparedness Takes More Than An Infographic

Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research

July 28, 2021

Features & Long-Form Interviews:

Again, Together

One Breath Partnership Documentary

January 21, 2021

Stepping up for Texas 

Podcast Episode for Shelter & Solidarity

February 24, 2021

Talking Just Recovery

Interview with Houston Review of Books

April 5, 2021

External coverage:

Houston is a cheap place to live – if you don’t count the trauma tax

Houston Chronicle

February 21, 2021

Texas’ Freeze Was One Part of a Long Disaster We’re Still Living Through

Mother Jones

February 23, 2021

Texans Can’t Catch a Break

Slate Podcast

March 1, 2021

Deep Freeze Just Latest Disaster to Befall Houston’s Needy

Associated Press

March 8, 2021

Mutual aid groups helped Houston when the government could not

Houston Chronicle

March 21, 2021

The ‘Old American Dream,’ a Trap as the Floods Keep Coming

New York Times

March 23, 2021

Kids speak out on what it is like growing up victims of climate change

ABC News

April 22, 2021

“People Are Wiped Out”: Costs Pile Up as Hurricane Season Begins

Texas Observer

June 23, 2021