Buyouts can save Houston’s flood-soaked homeowners — if they can get one

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By Stephen PaulsenAug 27, 2019, 2:27 pm161 pts
Amanda and Drew Heyen spent 16 years in their small ranch home on Chantilly Lane in Houston’s Central Northwest neighborhood. In that period, their house flooded nine times — more than once every two years. At first, they tried to live with the frequent inundations. They raised their furniture on cinder…

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