West Street Recovery

Organizing and rebuilding for an equitable recovery from Harvey + other disasters, an end to Environmental Racism + a more democratic and just future.

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@ThomasDTiffany Why is Public works cancelling these projects?!

[Texas A&M Superfund Research Center @tamusuperfund]

@tamusuperfund joined Settegast Garden Day to help install a rain garden! Organized by @weststrecovery & the #CAG. Over 50 community members helped out. Beautiful day—perfect way to bring nature back to the neighborhood! @NIH @TAMU_SPH @Tamuarch

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

There needs to be more awareness of this. Law enforcement is creating fiscal pressures that could lead to undemocratic take overs. It doesnt really matter if its a "strategy" or not.

[Palestine stan acct @ReturnofTrill]

Every city that has some budget issue always has a police department tappin its pockets dry

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@WallStreetApes THis is a deeply untrue description of most of the testimony. Most people were there asking for services to be protected or expanded

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

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#disasterprep #houston

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@TomSRamsey2 What about the much more impactful raise for LEOs that happened last year. That is really the critical avoidable driver and it passed with basically no discussion at all.

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@evan7257 @HoustonChron Lets be clear about the drivers here which were avoidable and which were not.

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@BillKingHouston And how much of that increased spending was for Law Enforcement?

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@JeremiahDJohns Its also bc of vast swaths of open land.....

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@BillKingHouston Yes the massive police raises passed last year will harm us for a long time to come. they are the main driver of this fiscal crisis.

[Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith]

Harris County sees just about 76,000 eviction filings every year.

Award winning eviction diversion programs in Judge Steve Duble and Judge Dolores Lozano’s courts helped direct $800,000 in rental assistance to 200 households over the last year—getting landlords paid, keeping families housed and, in many cases, getting the eviction dismissed altogether.

We have evidence that prevention works. The question now is whether Harris County is willing to fund it like we actually believe that.

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

Public works claims they can do the same amount of work for less. But even the current standard is insufficient and you know it.

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@tarshajackson today is a great day to propose an amendment to fully fund the ditch reestablishment program. The city is poised to cut the budget from $45m to $25m but you have the power to change that.

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@abbschurch @HoustonChron Does extracting money from one account to put it into another improve financial outlook?? esp when that account is the way a multi billion consent decree is paid for? We are not so sure.

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@chrislhayes as an org that works in disaster recovery here please remember that the flood and freeze deaths that have impacted us so badly here are part of the housing story!

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@RichardHanania As an org that works in disaster recovery, it is really important to remember that the girls who die in the texas floods, the hundreds who died from a small freeze in 2021, that is also part of the texas housing story... There are pro's but there are cons too

[Chris Hollins @CGHollins]

My office warned repeatedly that the City’s overtime assumptions were unrealistic, and those warnings proved accurate -- with Police, Fire, and Solid Waste now projected to exceed their overtime budgets by more than $54 million combined.

This outcome was foreseeable and avoidable, yet the mayor chose to reduce the overtime budget instead of either controlling costs or budgeting honestly for them.

The result is another hit to our fund balance at a time when credit rating agencies already have a negative outlook on the City.

A budget that ignores predictable costs may pass a vote, but it doesn’t pass reality, and Houstonians are left paying the difference.

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@emilytakesnotes over 600 people statewide!

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@0liviajulianna Maybe they share his beliefs

[West Street Recovery @weststrecovery]

@davidsirota is that true?