{"id":416401,"date":"2026-08-25T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416401\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:00:17","slug":"city-funds-for-beryl-repair-aug-25-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416401\/","title":{"rendered":"City funds for Beryl repair (Aug. 25, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s show: The city of Houston has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/city-of-houston\/2026\/07\/08\/556535\/houston-home-repair-program-2024-storm-damage\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opened a program<\/a> to provide funding to help homeowners whose property was damaged in the 2024 derecho or Hurricane Beryl. We get details on how the federally funded program works and who is eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: The Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is holding an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonhispanicchamber.com\/architects-engineers-contractors-business-expo\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">infrastructure summit<\/a> and expo Wednesday. We learn more about it from the chamber&#8217;s Laura Murillo.<\/p>\n<p>Then, while the political world is focused on the upcoming election, we&#8217;re going to look back at historic leaders in Houston&#8217;s history, and why some are beloved, some are seen as controversial, and why those sentiments can change over time.<\/p>\n<p>And Houston artist Avery Brown Renfro discusses three generations of art in her family \u2014 her work and that of her father and grandfather, Bruce Brown and Leon Renfro. An <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brownrenfro.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">exhibit at Texas Southern University<\/a> celebrating all three is on display beginning Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday\u2019s show: The city of Houston has opened a program to provide funding to help homeowners whose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6595,16922,12246,4977,56,58,145030,4978,57,6607,973,66,223,69833,287,4979],"class_list":["post-416401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-art","tag-artists","tag-derecho","tag-full-show","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-hispanic-chamber-of-commerce","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-hurricane-beryl","tag-infrastructure","tag-local","tag-news","tag-political-history","tag-politics","tag-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416401","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=416401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}