New Houston Unit to Tackle Dilapidated Apartments

The city of Houston has created a Multifamily Habitability Unit. The unit's goal is to coordinate apartment oversight between various city departments. The creation of the unit had the support of the Houston Apartment Association and effects properties with three units or more units.
The city of Houston believes that the new unit was necessary. Before the unit, one department  might visit a property because of trash problems and another might inspect structural or safety issues. But often, there was no coordination between agencies, so problems would linger and a property could go from bad to worse. This could have a detrimental effect on the operations of nearby properties by giving the area a bad name.


See the Houston Code here.