Hurricane Harvey Should Have Taught Houston To Rethink How We Grow. We Haven’t Listened.

The Montrose Boulevard bridge over Buffalo Bayou after Hurricane Harvey

When it hit five years ago this week, Hurricane Harvey was an unprecedented disaster: 68 people dead, 200,000 homes damaged or destroyed, a half-million cars wiped out, $125 billion in damage.

But Harvey also held the potential to change the trajectory of the Houston region so that it would be more sustainable…