The skyline of downtown Houston looms over homes in the Fifth Ward neighborhood in 2018.
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A Regional Government Faces Calls for Reform in Houston
Voters are weighing changes to the Houston-Galveston Area Council, a planning organization that’s been at odds with the city over freeway and flood recovery funds.
On a warm Sunday evening in October, Michael Moritz knocks on the door of a two-story blue house tucked behind a row of pink rose bushes in Northside Village, a majority Hispanic neighborhood north of downtown Houston. An elderly man named Clyde Smith answers the door. “Can I help y’all?” he asks.
Moritz jumps right in: “I’m a volunteer with the Yes on Prop B campaign in the upcoming Houston municipal elections.”
“What about Prop B?” Smith says with a chuckle.