The Last House on Recovery Street

In 2019, a nonprofit called SBP — founded after Hurricane Katrina — finished rebuilding its ten thousandth home for disaster survivors across the United States. At a ceremony in Houston, a woman named Maria Gonzalez walked through the front door of her new house for the first time since Hurricane Harvey had swallowed everything she owned two years earlier. She ran her hand along the fresh drywall, opened every cabinet, then sat down on the kitchen floor and wept.…