[@Yam I Am]
I appreciate the input! I borrowed the name and general location from Alief just South of, what seemed to be, the focus of the Asian area. And my primary thought process was that, according to my Googling, the Houston Seaport handles the most foreign freight in all of North America if not the entirety of the Americas. I combined that idea with the failed Nicaraguan Grand Canal plan of 2020 and the proposed massive gulf windfarms that would help buffer hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. I'm going out on a real flimsy limb with the thought that buffered hurricanes would equate to increased rainfall. All of this is to kind of avoid the idea of Los Angeles Cyberpunk. I could see a hoard of warehouses and fresh buildings entering Houston similar to the endless farms of California logistics warehouses if LA/Southern California were to become practically uninhabitable over the next 20 years.

I could really boil all of this down to "non-LA." Last time I ran this it was in a fictional region. Maybe that would be best so I don't run into a situation where someone's reality conflicts with a fiction and it can't be compromised.

"... So you could do some cool stuff where like abandoned refineries are used as hideouts and marketplaces, and there's all these basically-abandoned office high-rises downtown that have been basically converted into squatters' communities, maybe run by the local slum lord. "

That is, at its core, the essence of this story more or less, rundown abandoned buildings being repurposed for new things.