HOUSTON – Jacqueline Williams stood in disbelief at the entrance of her new home in Houston’s Sharpstown neighborhood, tears welling in her eyes.

“Oh my heavens, look, James!” she exclaimed to her husband. “I can’t believe it!”

For the Williams family, this moment was eight years in the making, a direct result of Hurricane Harvey’s devastating impact in 2017.

That night, their world literally came crashing down around them.

“We were lying in the bed in the bedroom and the whole ceiling came in on us,” Williams recalled. “When we looked up, water was coming down through the fireplace. We called the insurance company and they said it wasn’t caused by the storm.”

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For years after Harvey, families across Houston lived in nearly uninhabitable conditions.

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