HOME gets a new home

Next Thursday, Dec. 7, City Council is set to vote on a series of changes to the Land Development Code generally referred to as the HOME initiative. In advance of that that vote, Council Member Leslie Pool, who is the lead sponsor of the HOME amendment, and her District 7 office have put together a website explaining and advocating for the changes. “I am very pleased about the amendments as they address two of my key priorities to meet the goals of the initiative: preserving existing housing stock, and ensuring smaller, single-family homes,” wrote Pool in a message on the City Council Message Board. “There has been a lot of information about HOME provided, as well as some key research and media coverage that informs the community conversations about this initiative. My team and I created a HOME hub for this information.” Meanwhile, a video created by opponents of the changes has appeared back online in a new, redacted edit after disappearing earlier this week. Nicole Nosek, who is a founder of Texans for Reasonable Solutions and is featured heavily in the video, requested the edits shortly after its original premiere. According to a new prelude to the video by its creators, “in the interest of time and in an effort to provide useful information about this issue, we are happy to comply.”