General Meeting

Thursday, April 11, 2024, 6:30 pm

Montie Beach Park Community Center

915 Northwood

Homelessness in Houston and Harris County

Please join us for a discussion on the homeless with Ty Kekoa, Director of Constituent Services for District H; Sgt. Clayton Graham (or a member of his team) of the Heights Squad, Houston Police Department; Francisco Castillo, Housing and Homelessness Policy Advisor for Harris County Precinct 2; Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Tommy Berry, assigned to Precinct 2 for homelessness issues.

The meeting will begin with a brief update from our Texas State Senator Carol Alvarado, Senate District 6.

The neighborhood is interested in: 

• understanding exactly what laws/ordinances are in effect for the city, HPARD, county, and flood control district for homeless people and where they can be and what they may do;

• how does enforcement vary between private and public property, as well as HPARD parks, Harris County Flood Control property, TXDoT underpasses and ROW;

• what can we advocate for to better enable enforcement?  e.g. posting No Trespassing signs; who posts? Or, different landscaping?  

• we have always had some homeless folks in the neighborhood, but we feel that there is an uptick in the numbers.  What may be contributing to this?

• what is the best way for us to interact with the layers of agencies/municipalities/districts that deal with the homeless to protect general public safely in our neighborhood?

• what should we advocate for, and to whom, to provide solutions to homelessness?