A complaint stemming from the Texas General Land Office’s allocation of Harvey disaster recovery funds, which originally awarded no money to Houston or Harris County from a $1 billion distribution, has been escalated to the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice.

A federal lawsuit filed earlier this month by the Department of Justice claims Rockland county and the Village of Spring Valley are in breach of an agreement which set a number of affordable housing units that were supposed to be made and by when.

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has affirmed that Texas officials discriminated against residents based on race and national origin in distributing $1 billion in Hurricane Harv