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Ronald Demery keeps important letters in a folder in his bedroom.

One of them is from the Texas General Land Office. The state agency administered recovery funds following Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and he had been anxiously waiting for the letter.

He received it in February — more than seven years after Harvey damaged his home in the East Little York Homestead neighborhood in Northeast Houston.

"I thought it was good news, saying they had found me a builder to come do my home," Demery said. "But then I read down, they said they out of funds. I said, ‘Oh no, not again.'" Click here for more inDepth features.

Demery was among 30 households whose applications for home repairs were withdrawn because funding ran out. Altogether, more than 3,200

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