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ON THE AGENDAHouston City Council · 2025-10-21

The city would spend $16 million to buy a roughly 90,000-square-foot property at 419 Emancipation Avenue — a site that has operated as a shelter since 1977 — from 419 Hope Partners LLC. The purchased property would be used as a housing-focused triage site offering temporary and transitional shelter, along with connections to healthcare, psychiatric, substance abuse, and housing services for people experiencing homelessness.

What it means for you

Houstonians experiencing homelessness in the area could be assessed and connected to services at this site; the purchase itself does not directly affect most residents' daily lives, but it establishes city ownership of an existing shelter facility in District I.

Outcome

On the 10/21/2025 council agenda. Outcome recorded in official minutes (minutes integration pending).

Housing & zoning — see all →419 Emancipation Avenue, District I (Martinez)

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.

District A — Amy PeckADistrict B — Tarsha JacksonBDistrict C — Joe PanzarellaCDistrict D — Carolyn Evans-ShabazzDDistrict E — Fred FlickingerEDistrict F — Tiffany ThomasFDistrict G — Mary Nan HuffmanGDistrict H — Mario CastilloHDistrict I — Joaquin MartinezIDistrict J — Edward PollardJDistrict K — Martha Castex-TatumK

Official council district boundaries · City of Houston GIS. Tap a district to see who represents it.

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?$16,000,000coversheet ↗
Who's paid?419 HOPE PARTNERS LLCcoversheet ↗
Which fund?Reimbursement of Equipment/Project Fundcoversheet ↗
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 — outcome pending minutes processing.minutes ↗

What this company has been paid

The city's published checkbook records $629,700 paid to 419 HOPE PARTNERS LLC across 6 payment lines, FY2018.

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-35798 — data from official records via PlainDocket.