Unhoused people in Houston’s East End will now be prohibited from sitting or placing their belongings on the neighborhood’s sidewalks as a new homeless shelter moves in.
The City Council passed a measure to expand Houston’s “civility ordinance” to an area that will stretch from Buffalo Bayou to Capitol Street, and 75th Street to Chartres Street.
Council Members Abbie Kamin and Tarsha Jackson voted against the measure. Council Members Edward Pollard, Letitia Plummer, Carolyn Evans-Shabazz and Tiffany D. Thomas were absent from the vote…