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Independence Heights residents, leaders urge housing authority not to terminate Columbia Residential MOU
Summary
Dozens of residents and community leaders urged the council and housing authority to preserve a planned affordable housing development in Independence Heights and to keep Columbia Residential as developer after the housing authority agenda placed a Memorandum of Understanding under review.
Community leaders and residents of Independence Heights urged Houston officials on Feb. 4 not to terminate an agreement with Columbia Residential for an affordable housing project, saying the project honors a late community leader's work and that switching developers would delay construction and risk tax-credit financing.
Natasha Johnson, who said she has lived in Independent Heights 67 years, told the council the community opposes the housing authority resolution (identified in public remarks as Resolution 3858) and asked why the item was placed on the agenda without more notice. "None of us were nobody responded to us, nobody gave us a letter, nobody gave us a head up," she said.
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