Mayor John Whitmire says the ordinance is one way to help keep public spaces clean and safe, especially as downtown grows ...

The Houston mayor's office plans to expand the city’s so-called “civility ordinance," which currently prohibits lying down, ...

Houston has made some progress moving people off the streets. However, tensions remain over the city’s set ordinance about sitting, lying down, or leaving personal belongings in certain public spaces ...

Teresa Eddins, 63, sits on her couch in her apartment in Houston on Oct. 14, 2023. Eddins, who was homeless two years ago, was provided an apartment through Houston’s homeless response system ...

Precinct 2 Constables are working with H.O.P.E Haven to help get the homeless community off the streets. On Wednesday, they ...

“You can design a better process, and Houston did,” said former Mayor Annise Parker, who began leading the strategy shift in 2011. On a warm early October afternoon, downtown Houston, the center of ...

Larry Satterwhite, director of the Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security, announced during a June 24 news conference ...

Over the past dozen years, Houston has driven down its homeless population by 64 percent, including a 17 percent reduction last year. Its success is built on a system that coordinates public ...

HOMELESS TICKETS: Houston has fined its homeless population more than $9.5 million since 2020. What do the fines do? Instead, the couple and their dog relocated to a wooded stand a few blocks away ...

The turning point came in 2011, when Houston had the fifth-highest number of homeless people in America. That’s when the mayor at the time, Annise Parker, a numbers-driven policy wonk ...