The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development confirmed its finding that Texas unfairly favored white residents in rural areas when it distributed $1 billion in Harvey aid in 2021.

A complaint stemming from the Texas General Land Office’s allocation of Harvey disaster recovery funds, which originally awarded no money to Houston or Harris County from a $1 billion distribution, has been escalated to the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice.

A federal lawsuit filed earlier this month by the Department of Justice claims Rockland county and the Village of Spring Valley are in breach of an agreement which set a number of affordable housing units that were supposed to be made and by when.