{"id":12280,"date":"2025-10-20T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/12280\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:54:09","slug":"houston-mayor-whitmire-to-announce-new-houston-facility-to-combat-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/12280\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Mayor Whitmire to announce new Houston facility to combat homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HOUSTON, Texas  \u2013 Mayor John Whitmire, along with several other Houston leaders, will announce their plans to establish a new housing facility for homeless Houstonians on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">The new facility, located at 419 Emancipation Avenue, will serve as a resource center under Whitmire\u2019s \u201cEnd Street Homelessness Initiative,\u201d which connects individuals experiencing hardship with healthcare, behavioral health support, substance use treatment, and pathways to permanent housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Whitmire will be joined by Mike Nichols, the Director of the City of Houston Housing and Community Development. Larry Satterwhite, the Director of the Mayor\u2019s Office of Homeland Safety &amp; Security. Noe Diaz, Chief of the Houston Police Department; Thomas Mu\u00f1oz, Chief of the Houston Fire Department. Council Member Tiffany Thomas, District F, Council Member Willie Davis, At-Large Position 2, Council Member Twila Carter, At-Large Position 3 and Council Member Joaquin Martinez, District I<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas \u2013 Mayor John Whitmire, along with several other Houston leaders, will announce their plans to establish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[696,56,58,57,10450],"class_list":{"0":"post-12280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-homelessness","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-whitmire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}