{"id":421699,"date":"2026-08-31T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421699\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:30:08","slug":"houston-suburbs-importing-blue-backed-missing-middle-housing-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421699\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Suburbs Importing Blue-Backed &#8216;Missing Middle Housing&#8217; | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston has some of the highest rated and fastest growing suburbs in the U.S. But that could change, thanks to a plan from the left that has already started outside of blue cities like Minneapolis and Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>They call it &#8216;Missing Middle Housing&#8217;, which is high density housing and apartments in single family neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You see the results, you see the increase in crime, you see the quality of the schools go down&#8221; said Jeanette Hoffman, Republican strategist, &#8220;Communities become ruined, and you don&#8217;t have the high quality of life that you once did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suburbs have long been a target of the left, with the Houston City Council actually approving &#8216;Missing Middle Housing&#8217; development back in 2023. So the failed quality of life in the blue cities, is coming to a suburb near you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason why people move to the suburbs is because of that quality of life, because of the strong support for police, because of high quality schools&#8221; Hoffman told KTRH, &#8220;And then, yet politicians seem to think that they can import these big city policies that actually ruin communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s why she says it all starts with local elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely, these local races are critical to our quality of life. And you really do get what you vote for&#8221; noted Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>As one political writer asked, &#8220;Why should America\u2019s most successful suburbs take their cues from cities struggling to preserve the very qualities suburban families value?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston has some of the highest rated and fastest growing suburbs in the U.S. But that could change,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-421699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421699","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=421699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}