Your City Hall is facing some big questions about homelessness

So okay— let’s talk about something deeply Houston: community and how we take care of each other. The headlines coming out of City Hall lately, or rather, the stories being highlighted *about* the city, really underscore where our attention is.

Wait wait wait, let me back up— Houston Landing, a major local non-profit news organization, just had their final Storytellers Event exploring family. That’s big, right? Family, in a city as spread out and diverse as ours, means everything. It’s how we survive the traffic on the Katy Freeway, it’s how we make a life in the heat.

But then you see the other piece: "Who are HOU?: Meet Scot More, an advocate addressing homelessness at Houston’s Homeless Court." This was highlighted by the city on Thursday, May 15th. It’s a spotlight on how we’re trying to navigate one of our biggest challenges. You know what the wildest part is? Houston doesn't have a single approach to anything, and homelessness is no different. We have incredible outreach, but the problem persists from Montrose to Alief.

It makes you wonder, with organizations like Houston Landing putting a bow on their storytelling, and the city trying to highlight solutions like the Homeless Court, are we actually getting to the root of the problem? We’re a city that builds, builds, builds, but are we building *for* everyone? What’s next for families facing housing insecurity in the shadow of all those new high-rises in EaDo?

H-Town on the wire — no limits, no zoning, no excuses.

Ani Pham, MiTL Sports Desk.

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