Houston the City of the Future

[@10cabe]

And what about the University of Houston! No discussion about the brilliant faculty and multiple sites beyond the Central Campus! Houston is also one of the few cities with a resident Symphony Orchestra, Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera and The Alley Theater, among other performing arts organizations.

[@kevinlark9694]

Houston needs to become a more walkable city

[@Peggygoldenadolph]

Houston is a great place to live and work. Happy that this development is taking place.

[@Peggygoldenadolph]

Hutch is a great example of how to 55inches the world

[@consuelocianci5567]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!

[@InsaneNuYawka]

I’m looking to relocate and this definitely inspired me .. so job well done 😁

[@skb69sa]

What can the city of Houston (and the surrounding cities in the greater Houston area) do to reduce the property tax? Property tax is ridiculous. Property tax in the greater Houston area is between 3% to 4% of the appraised home value. Family moving from a state that collect state income tax pays 2 to 3 times more tax than they paid in their previous state. This is how it works - State with personal income tax collects tax on the income they earn. Property tax in those states is usually around or less than 1% of the appraised home value. Most of the homeowners buys home that are 3 to 4 times their annual household salary. When you compare the property tax in the greater Houston area on the appraised home value to that of the state income tax in their previous state, homeowners in greater Houston area pay 3 times higher in tax than the tax they paid on their combined income tax and property tax on the state that they lived earlier.

[@armoredghost6180]

I think Houston has much potential to improve and grow over time, but there seem to be at least two long standing issues that the city still hasn’t solved: 1.) More and better flood infrastructure. Without more ways to divert away water, various parts of the city and county remain in danger from flooding. Property damage and loss will continue to plague Houstonians until this is much more thoroughly solved. 2.) Crime. Basic law and order is absolutely critical to maintain society. This cannot be emphasized enough. It’s a multi factor problem to solve, but it can be done. Doing so requires assessing the amount of police needed, laws regarding defense of self and property, and also the basic values and morality behind all these things.

[@adad-ec6ht]

No. Houston needs mass transit and a much better public transport system to develop into a world class city like New York or Chicago.

[@Miss_TEXAS_713]

@@adad-ec6ht we're not trying to be like nyc nor Chicago ewww how basic🤮🥱

[@texaswunderkind]

Houston has flood infrastructure. The problem is that greedy developers built homes in the flood plains of that infrastructure. Duh...those houses flood! Never should have been allowed. Dumb consumers rolled the dice on cheaper lots and lost.

[@tonyball1471]

ppl complain about crime in a HUGE city like Houston ? U gotta go move to a small town. The smaller the town , the smaller the crime. Rate. Etc

[@ipropital1036]

I want live in Houston.

[@yomommabiatch3282]

Pls it’s full don’t move!!!. Also ur gonna hate the son in the summer it reaches almost 122

[@ipropital1036]

@@yomommabiatch3282 i live in city when summer with +40-45 Celsius, winter with -30-40 Celsius.

[@fallinggravity9964]

@@ipropital1036 With 90% humidity

[@aaronkamakaze2967]

@@ipropital1036 lol there's no city on earth that has temperatures that fluctuate that drastically

[@ipropital1036]

@@aaronkamakaze2967 welcome to Almaty :) A town that does not exist.

[@johncharles450]

Truly exciting city!

[@consuelocianci5567]

WOW, SOUNDS GREAT

[@benjamingilespinosa7303]

Can y’all make a better public transportation system. It’s so terrible

[@willubhave5]

Try Corpus Christi TX, the next Burj Dubai...its under major construction - every part of the city N-E-W-S, bet we got a million by 2023

[@everettalexander5990]

Austin is building a building taller than JP Morgan Chase Tower.

[@joballs21]

not confirmed but it could happen

[@gracyd326]

Please.... FIX the roads around the Medical Center. There are holes and bumps. When they fix, they just drop the asphalt just like what they did in the y road by Target by Main and Old Spanish trail. Been driving in this ugly road for years and years.

[@swpowell1226]

The roads are a disgrace. If you want to damage your vehicle drive down Westheimer, TC Jester, Richmond, etc. The government can't even put in a first class rail/transit system. All they want to do is add more and more buses that have to compete with the rest of traffic. They ignore what people have voted for and approved and add something else. Tax dollars for roads and transit are vanishing into a black home somewhere. A new mayor is needed to hopefully get things back on track.

[@EvangelistRBColbert]

Houston is a liberal city inside a red state. 😊 Need to improve their public transportation.

[@octaviouscollins4523]

My job asked me to move to Houston or Dallas. I wanted to move to Houston but the Cost of living is too high! My 65k salary would go a longer way in the Dallas area.

[@robertphelan1657]

As a native Texan and someone who lives in the Houston metro area and a prior resident of the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex, the living and housing cost is pretty much identical.

[@roelzuniga6009]

Cost of living is the same in Houston and Dallas.

[@aaronkamakaze2967]

I would say dallas is actually more expensive.

[@nygeriunprence]

What? Houston is cheaper than Dallas dude don't know what you're talking about.

[@214dude2]

@@robertphelan1657 lol “Fort Worth/Dallas”

[@adad-ec6ht]

What!! Houston is a vibrant Metro... LMAO! Chicago : Am I a joke to you?

[@robertphelan1657]

Chicago is pretty much a joke these days thanks to your local government and Mayor Beetlejuice.

[@roelzuniga6009]

Chicago is a joke. It’s a shell of its once former great city.

[@thebabbler8867]

@@roelzuniga6009 Not at all. Chicago is booming right now. It's coming back to it's former self at a rapid rate.

[@thebabbler8867]

@@robertphelan1657 Chicago is the best city. The government sits on their ass talking shit on the media, but the city itself is booming.

[@kelvinw.1384]

Houston has passed Chicago and population. what the problem is is your lack of adequate zoning laws have caused a lot of loss of wetlands. also you area wasn’t meant for the population as large. you guys are having huge issues about water. Furthermore you guys really have to spend money on light rail in public transit you’re focuses too much on cars

[@jasonnunez3886]

I’m sorry, but without proper public transportation, all of these great things won’t work properly and won’t be a world class city, not even a train from the major airports to the DT, hate to say it, I live in Houston, but it is what it is and is not changing, they will invest 10billions on expanding freeways, instead of proper public transportation 😢

[@juniorlopez8206]

😂 they need to fixed the roads and violence is crazy in Houston don’t move people

[@yahirresendiz6514]

They can do all of this but they can’t spend money on improving roads or fixing the thousands of potholes all over the city. SMH

[@michaeltrower741]

or get a handle on the crime

[@xhtownx1524]

They need to fix a lot of things because most of the city inside the loop is ghetto

[@XREX7433]

Not anymore!

[@floydjr31]

Maybe it was in 1998 but things have changed in the last ten to 20 years. That's old houston

[@roelzuniga6009]

You haven’t been to Houston lately and it shows.

[@davidgonzalez9888]

You don’t go into the loop much then. Or your standard of ghetto is pretty sheltered.

[@ph2869]

@@floydjr31 Yeah, now only HALF the area inside the beltway is ghetto.

[@yomommabiatch3282]

They help the rich but forget and don’t care about the poor

[@ThatColtGuy]

Most of this helps everyone, making the area nicer, more places to get involved with your city and more parks for people to get out and move around. Don’t expect people to just give out free money🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@EvangelistRBColbert]

That's every where! This whole country cater to the wealthy! LOL

[@DavidMiller-jz4tv]

Turner is a joke

[@robertphelan1657]

I thought it was funny as hell when he got caught strong-arming the Houston Airport Authority to give his boyfriend a job, he lied and lied and lied claiming he had no idea who that guy was, and then finally the emails surfaced revealing is attempts.