{"id":374977,"date":"2026-07-16T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:53:08","slug":"houston-city-council-approved-local-agreement-to-add-more-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374977\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston City Council approved local agreement to add more affordable housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Wednesday, Houston City Councilmembers approved an agreement between the City of Houston and Harris County for Texas Reinvestment Zone Number 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis&#8217; Office was able to work with the Midtown TIRZ to link their county funding into their funding structure and a third of that, so a portion will be set aside for affordable housing,&#8221; Houston District C Councilmember Joe Panzarella said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Panzarella said there needs to be, and will be, an all-hands-on-deck approach to affordable housing in his district, including areas of what the county calls the &#8220;midtown zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;A portion of the money will go towards the regular projects that the Midtown TIRZ is bringing forward, but a third of it is being reserved for affordable housing and what we hope to see specifically in District C, but all over Midtown, is a larger investment in affordable housing through partnerships with both the city and county,&#8221; Councilmember Panzarella said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ordinance <a data-ylk=\"slk:report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/houstontx.primegov.com\/api\/compilemeetingattachmenthistory\/historyattachment\/?historyId=8791cbbe-4dcf-42cf-a519-eb9258ff1fd0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> states that the county participation agreement established the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">-Harris County&#8217;s participation in the Midtown Zone through tax year 2050<br \/>-10% of the county&#8217;s increment will be directed to the city&#8217;s Homeless Housing Funding Account<br \/>-Describes the county&#8217;s approval process for projects financed with the county increment<br \/>-One-third of the county&#8217;s increment will be set aside for county affordable housing projects within the TIRZ boundaries<br \/>-Reporting requirements, project-eligibility provisions, and audits<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Panzarella said there aren&#8217;t any specific projects in motion right now under the new agreement, but he is excited about what lies ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Houston City Councilmembers approved an agreement between the City of Houston and Harris County for Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1500,405,56,132642,58,57,19691],"class_list":["post-374977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-affordable-housing","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-councilmembers","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-rodney-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374977","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=374977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}