Houston Approves $16M Homeless “Super Hub” Amid Community Concerns

Houston approves $16M homeless “Super Hub” amid community concerns

The Houston City Council voted (14-1) to move forward with purchasing a former shelter at 419 Emancipation Avenue for $16 million, a step in the city’s plan to expand its homelessness response network. The project, dubbed the “Super Hub,” is being hailed as Houston’s first centralized “front door” to connect unsheltered residents with healthcare, mental health treatment and permanent housing, according to city documents. View this post on Insta…

“Call me unhoused, not homeless”; Commissioner Segerblom addresses community concerns about the unhoused

Commissioner Tick Segerblom hosted a town hall meeting at the Clark County Library in southeast Las Vegas on Oct. 25. On the agenda was giving the floor to community members to voice concerns about the growing number of unhoused people.  As housing and renting prices go up, unemployment rates rise and government assistance gets cut, there is an increase in homelessness and poverty and food insecurity. Many unhoused people came to share their own…

Houston found a blueprint to end homelessness. Will Washington destroy it?

(Shared content also published on ACoM and HCoM media platforms) When Aaron Cooper walked out of Texas state jail four weeks ago after serving an eight-month sentence, freedom didn’t bring balloons — it brought grief. He was released one day before the funeral of his uncle, Michael Andrea Rice, whose remains were found in Buffalo Bayou — one more name among the nearly two dozen bodies surfacing in Houston’s waterways this year, and the unanswere…