The funding will help relocate residents from the Fifth Ward cancer cluster, following years of community advocacy. Residents demand more accountability from Union Pacific Railroad.
The Houston City Council on Wednesday approved a $5 million fund to help relocate residents from a Fifth Ward community heavily impacted by a deadly cancer cluster.
The fund will be used to help residents voluntarily relocate from the area near a Union Pacific Railroad site where elevated levels of dioxins, chemicals that are linked to cancer-causing conditions, were found. Many neighbors there have died from various cancers for decades. "It's long overdue, and they are kind of understanding what we have been trying to get them to understand," Edwards said. "It's a lot of people over here that really needed that."
In addition to the $5 million fund, Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city will work with the Houston Land Bank, the Community Land Trust, and Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis to help relocate residents. Residents will also be assigned caseworkers to help them through the process.
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