The funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will help expand voucher holders' housing options to include areas where they can take advantage of job opportunities, high-performing schools and low crime rates, according to the local housing agency.
A division commander for the Houston Police Department says it is seeing encouraging signs after increasing its patrol presence in the vicinity of a gas station where there were two shootings in the span of a week earlier this summer.
Citing a city ban on sharing food with homeless people, Houston has so far issued at least 48 citations to volunteers at the local chapter of Food Not Bombs.