The Texas Supreme Court issued an emergency stay blocking Harris County’s guaranteed income program from taking effect and releasing funds. One recipient shared how he was hoping to secure housing with the payment.
– The Texas Supreme Court issued an emergency stay, blocking Harris County ’s guaranteed income program from taking effect and releasing funds. One recipient shared how he was hoping to secure housing with the payment.
“We’re decided to do nothing which means the program will proceed,” Hidalgo said, “No court has blocked the county from sending out the payment. Given that the state is so focused at this we’re going to have to take it one payment at a time.”“How has your housing been since? Before this,” Balogun asked.Holley is one of 1,928 households selected for Uplift Harris. Holley and the other recipients live in the county’s poorest neighborhoods.
Earlier in the day, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the court to intervene after two lower courts stopped Paxton’s ‘Take off your political glasses’: NAACP Houston, partners pushes for full support of Uplift Harris program “It is astonishing that Harris County would get sued for this but the City of San Antonio, the City of Austin, and in fact El Paso County, which is a county, adopted their program late last year, has not been sued about it,” Menefee said.
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