PASSEDHouston City Council · 2025-10-21

The City Council is considering an ordinance to send $22,127 to the Houston Land Bank — a city-created nonprofit that acquires and redevelops vacant or abandoned properties — reimbursing it for property tax revenues collected on properties it previously conveyed to affordable housing builders during tax years 2023 and 2024.

What it means for you

This item primarily affects the Houston Land Bank and the affordable housing developers who received properties from it; the reimbursed funds are required by state law and a prior agreement to be used for the Land Bank's property acquisition and operations.

Outcome

Adopted — all voting aye, nays none. Ordinance 2025-0881, official minutes of Oct 21-22, 2025.

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Official sources

Item cover sheet — summary and background ↗Meeting minutes — full record with the vote (PDF) ↗

The cover sheet is the item's official summary page; supporting attachments (contracts, maps, fiscal notes) are listed at the bottom of it. The minutes show what happened at the meeting.

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How to weigh in

Where: City Hall, 901 Bagby, 2nd Floor, Houston, TX 77002
When: Council meets Tuesdays 1:30 p.m. & Wednesdays 9:00 a.m. Public Session — when you can speak — is Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. on the last Tuesday of the month).
Speak: Register by 3:00 p.m. the Monday before: call 832.393.1100, email speakers@houstontx.gov, or go in person to the City Secretary (City Hall Annex, 900 Bagby, Room P101). Each speaker gets 1–3 minutes.
Watch: Live on HTV ↗

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Quick answersfrom the official record

How much?$22,127coversheet ↗

Who benefits?HOUSTON LAND BANKcoversheet ↗

Who decides?Houston City Council — its 16 members (11 district + 5 at-large) vote; the Mayor presides and also votes. Taken up at the October 21, 2025 meeting — Adopted, all voting aye.minutes ↗

The official caption doesn't name who pays for it — full details in the official coversheet ↗

What this company has been paid

The city's published checkbook records $20,862,498 paid to HOUSTON LAND BANK across 124 payment lines, FY2019–FY2026.

That is money already paid across all city business with this company — not the amount this item approves, and not a total for this contract.

See the year-by-year breakdown →

Cite this: https://plaindocket.com/item/real-34738 — data from official records via PlainDocket.