HOUSTON – Starting next week, Houston leaders will consider changes to the city’s civility ordinance to balance compassion and public safety amid the ongoing homelessness crisis downtown.
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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 from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m…