Essay: Houston is a cheap place to live - if you don t count the trauma tax
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Alice Torres, 54, poses for a portrait in her home Friday, Feb. 19, 2021 in Houston. Torres is just one of so many who have lived through one disaster after another that have happened over the years in Houston. She grew up in the Fifth Ward near the Union Pacific site and had cancer, then her house near Hobby was flooded, she nearly died of COVID, her mother died of COVID and the blackouts from the recent winter storm put her in dire straights because she nearly ran out of oxygen.Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Texas Stateâs Clery Act Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for 2020 was published Dec. 7, revealing an increase in reported rapes and burglaries on campus among other crime data.
The Clery Act requires institutions participating in the Federal Student Aid program to disclose campus security policies and crime statistics over the previous three years in a document called the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.
The report shows rapes reported in 2019 were double the amount of 2018âs numbers for a total of 28. Contextually, that number is the same as 2017 and 2018âs numbers combined. The burglaries reported for 2019 show 40 burglaries, an increase of 26 from 2018âs numbers. There were zero reported crimes on the Round Rock campus.Â