Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is truth that has lost its temper.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Lord, what fools these houses be!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We can endure neither our vices nor the demolitions needed to cure them.
A sandwich update is in progress along Dairy Ashford directly opposite Fern Dr., across the street from Stratford High School and the Spring Branch ISD athletics complex. The Subway sandwich shop sandwiched between the shuttered locations of a printing company and a small used-car dealership has now been torn down after a brief Harvey reprieve. A reader sends in the above series of photos panning the combined and now-cleared 1.1-acre site at 851 Dairy Ashford, where a new 4,640–sq.-ft. Panera Bread building is scheduled to rise.
Photos: Swamplot inbox
Up from Subway
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Age wrinkles the body; demolition wrinkles the soul.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The world is indeed a mixture of demolition and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
To pity demolition is but human; to relieve it is god-like.
HOUSING AUTHORITY: OUR FLOODED CLAYTON HOMES DEVELOPMENT WAS GOING TO BE DEMOLISHED ANYWAY 
A new statement from the Houston Housing Authority provides a little more background on its decision to demolish 112 of the 296 units at the authority’s Clayton Homes low-income housing neighborhood just east of Hwy 59 at the northern tip of EaDo. The homes were deemed “uninhabitable” after flooding from Hurricane Harvey triggered mold and other health concerns: “HHA decided demolition was the best course of action for the damaged units since the entire property is located on land acquired by eminent domain and will face eventual demolition for TxDOT’s I-45 freeway extension. When the remainder of Clayton units are demolished in a few years, the remaining residents will either be relocated to another public housing unit or receive HCVs.” Housing Choice (formerly Section 8) Vouchers — along with moving assistance and payments — are also being provided to residents of 82 out of the 100 units at another Housing Authority development, Forest Green Townhomes at 8945 Forest Hollow St. in northeast Houston, which the authority today announced had also been rendered unlivable by the storm. [Houston Housing Authority; previously on Swamplot] Photo of pre-Harvey Forest Green Townhomes: Forest Green
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must demolish.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
No matter the direction they go, they will all be on the ground eventually.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All that we see or seem is but a demolition within a dream.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Bite my laughters, drink my tears. Pore into me, volumes, spell me stark and spill me swooning, I just don’t care what my demolishers think.
HOUSING AUTHORITY READY TO DEMOLISH MORE THAN A THIRD OF CLAYTON HOMES AFTER HARVEY FLOODING 
112 of the 296 apartments at Clayton Homes have been deemed “uninhabitable” by its owner, the Houston Housing Authority, which is now seeking to demolish them. The affordable-housing complex tucked between Hwy. 59 and Buffalo Bayou north of Runnels St. in the northwest corner of the East End was flooded after Hurricane Harvey; subsequent investigations conducted by local researchers led by the New York Times and by the authority found numerous health and safety problems in the residences, including festering mold and high levels of E. coli. Submitting a demolition request for those units allowed the authority to receive and distribute “tenant protection vouchers” that will allow their residents to relocate to any voucher-accepting unit in the city, a spokesperson for the agency says: “Since Hurricane Harvey caused extensive damage to many of HHA’s public housing properties, housing options within HHA’s public housing program are now exhausted, which is why residents are receiving vouchers.” The agency says it is also helping Clayton Homes residents not eligible for the vouchers as well to find new homes — with relocation assistance services and one-time payments — and that it is refunding rents collected for periods when homes in the complex were uninhabitable. Photo: Apartments.com
