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Writing about Harvey's impact

About the political factors contributing to Harvey's destruction, this author showed explicitly how preparing for disasters goes against the economic interests of local government and developers.

The government doesn't have much interest in protecting green spaces from development because it means forgoing property tax revenue. This is costly because Texas relies heavily on property taxes, as there is no state income tax. Legislation dealing with zoning and building codes has repeatedly been voted down because organizations and associations [which] profit from the non-existent zoning codes campaign against the legislation. For example the Texas Association of Builders killed legislation it didn't like, which included having cities require residential fire sprinklers.

Is it generally true that when one group (e.g. builders) has to pay for a benefit (disaster preparedness) that a different group (homeowners) will benefit from that the first group will put up resistance?

I didn't ask you to include references. But it never hurts!

Another factor is that climate change is making rainstorms worse, especially in the Gulf Coast region (Fernandez and Fausset).

A good example of paraphrasing from an article, instead of quoting:

The article "Harvey Wasn't Just Bad Weather, It Was Bad City Planning," explains that building over the saw-grass prairie in Houston has reduced the ground's capacity to absorb rainfall, therefore making it much for likely for the area to become flooded.
The reason global warming could be a factor is down primarily to two factors. The first is that hurricanes form, in part, due to the heat energy on the ocean's surface. With global warming, there is more heat and therefore more energy to form a [h]urricane. The second is that the heat also means more evaporation and more water in the air which then rains down.