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The city of Houston's housing department hopes to open a facility with 150 to 225 beds for homeless people in East Downtown sometime in early 2026.

The proposal comes as Houston Mayor John Whitmire's administration ramps up efforts to get homeless people off the streets. The "superhub" is a key pillar of the multipronged initiative, framed as a housing-focused alternative to criminalization.

Housing department director Mike Nichols described the site as "a place of refuge for people with no other places to go." It would be the first of multiple such hubs across the city, though the department only plans to have temporary beds in the centrally located "superhub."

Compared to many of the other shelters in Harris County's network containing about 2,000 temporary b

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