Houston moved many 'Tent City' residents to a navigation center. Here's what it's like inside.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner tours the Navigation Center, which will allow the city to move all of the residents of an encampment under one roof where they can stay until they are connected with permanent housing, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, in Houston. Turner said the center has 44 residents.Near Minute Maid Park, on the edge of downtown where the Astros recently clinched the World Series, you’ll notice something missing. One of the city’s largest homeless camps has moved.
Mayor Sylvester Turner had more colorful language to describe his feelings about the navigation center opening."To me, it's better than the Super Bowl." Starting in 2018, the city, the Coalition for the Homeless in Houston and Harris County and their partners tried closing down an encampment on Wheeler Avenue. Then they tried to close down the camp east of Minute Maid, which at that point encompassed more than 100 people. But instead of moving everyone out at the same time – there was no way to line up that many empty apartments at once – they moved people out as units became available.
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