City Council on Wednesday approved new boundaries for the city’s 11 districts for the 2023 elections, featuring modest adjustments affecting parts of downtown, Braeburn, Greater Inwood and a few areas in southeast Houston.
Houston’s City Council, pictured here in April, approved new maps for its 11 council districts in advance of the 2023 elections.By law, the most populous district should not have more than 10 percent more residents than the smallest district. Based on the 2020 census, Districts C and G need to give up some neighborhoods. Districts H, I and J, on the other hand, have lost too many constituents and need to expand. Overall, fewer than 3 percent of the Houston's 2.
One of them, Yvette Arellano, lives in one of the two precincts originally set to change districts and said the proposed change would undermine “my ability to vote to improve my neighborhood.” “If you go into this thinking that you’re going to make everybody happy, you're going to be sorry for thinking that,” Wood said. “If you go into this thinking that you’re going to make as few people unhappy as possible, then you might have some success.”After much discussion, Freedmen’s Town, a historic Black neighborhood in the Fourth Ward, avoided a switch.
“We would have a different political partner that we have to create a completely new relationship with,” Escobar said. “I understand that this is a numbers game, but why is it Freedman's town that has to get tossed between districts?” The League of United Latin American Citizens , one of the largest Hispanic civil rights organizations in the country, has promised toon the council.
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