HOUSTON – Although this week’s city council agenda pulled a vote on a $16-million homeless shelter, Mayor John Whitmire told 2 Investigates there’s no stopping an adults-only “superhub” from being established in EaDo.

“This is the right time and the right place,” Whitmire said Tuesday afternoon.

The location is the site of a former homeless shelter that housed migrant children, only this time it will be housing the homeless who require psychiatric and drug addiction assistance.

EaDo residents push back against proposed homeless shelter ahead of City Council vote

Mike Nichols, the Director of the city’s Housing and Community Development Department, said last week the facility will provide, “Significant psychiatric support, we’re talking about professionals. Significant physical suppo

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