{"id":353969,"date":"2026-06-29T01:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T01:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:26:37","slug":"300-free-a-c-units-distributed-to-precinct-4-families-commissioner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353969\/","title":{"rendered":"300 free A\/C units distributed to Precinct 4 families, commissioner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Some Harris County families sweating through the Houston summer heat without air conditioning got some help staying cool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They picked up free portable air conditioning units at a distribution at Bayland Community Center in Gulfton, according to Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heat kills. Relief should not be a luxury when our families are struggling with the affordability of rent and groceries,&#8221; Briones said. &#8220;Some of our community members here in Harris County do not have air conditioning. This is a step forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The distribution is part of the second annual \u201cCool 4 the Summer\u201d program organized by Briones&#8217; office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The recipients included seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, and low-income families, according to Precinct 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Commissioner Briones said 300 A\/C units were distributed at three sites in her precinct.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Some Harris County families sweating through the Houston summer heat without air conditioning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[125963,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-353969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-125963","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353969","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=353969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}