Houston city council approves $15M affordable housing complex in Greenspoint
City of Houston approves funding for affordable housing
HOUSTON – Houston’s city council announced Thursday that a $15 million loan to help fund a development project that aims to build an affordable housing complex in the Greenspoint area has been approved.
The Summit at Renaissance Park, which is expected to cost $77 million, is set to be built on part of the site that currently houses the Greenspoint Mall. The development project will be placed on the southeast side of the lost, which previously housed a Sears Auto Center.
The money used to fund the loan came from a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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As more and more instances make the Texas headlines about convicted felons running for public office, the question is whether felons are allowed to run.
The the answer is not clear in the Texas Election Code, which states that an eligible candidate must âhave not been finally convicted of a felony from which the person has not been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities.â
While a pardon is relatively clear cut, itâs the other part of the code that has people scratching their heads: âotherwise released from the resulting disabilities.â
Does that mean a convicted felon who has served his or her time in prison can then later run for office? No one seems to know.
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On Monday’s Houston Matters: Area hospitals are among the first receiving doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine today. The FDA authorized the vaccine for emergency use Friday. We learn more.
And residents in Houston City Council District B elected Tarsha Jackson to represent them on Council on Saturday, in a long-awaited runoff against Cynthia Bailey. How long? More than a year.
Also this hour: How might the Biden administration affect Houston’s energy industry? We talk it over in the first of a week of conversations on what the new administration might mean for Greater Houston.