I burst out laughing when I read the following;
“I have a lot of questions about security,” said Council Member Mario Castillo, during the contentious meeting last week. He’s one of two City Council representatives for the area.
Satterwhite had some answers. At 9 p.m., residents will have to be indoors. “You either have to be inside or nowhere in the area,” he said.
Mayor Whitmire, he added, has promised extra patrols.
The audience laughed with disbelief. As it is, several said, police don’t respond to their calls for hours, attendees said.
It seems that others who were there when the Mayor’s point person had the same response. I wonder if Whitmire thinks people are stupid or if he is silly enough to believe his own alternate reality stories..
The Chronicle is in favor of the housing there, but I wonder if any of the Chronicle’s editorial board lives in the vicinity. I don’t mind it being there; I am miles away, and I certainly prefer it there to somewhere close to my area.
Houston needs beds, plain and simple. Especially “low-barrier” ones that take people with pets and partners. And, yes, addictions.
That’s why Houstonians should support Mayor John Whitmire’s push for greater shelter capacity, including a plan to reopen a former Star of Hope shelter at 419 Emancipation as a city-owned “living center.”
