East Houston Estate Apartments, L.L.C. v. City of Houston

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• concluding that while the City would benefit in a general way from apartment owner providing availability of more housing for low income families, such a benefit is an indirect and attenuated one and Section 271.152’s waiver did not apply
• “Chapter 373 [of the local government code] authorizes a municipality to adopt a community development program to aid in the prevention or elimination of slums and blighted areas, including the rehabilitation of privately-owned properties.”
• The Court stated, “Here, the loan agreement was made to provide funding to a private entity, East Houston [apartment owner], for the purpose of rehabilitating an apartment complex 5 to provide very low-income and low-income housing . . . .”
• “It is clear that, while the City would benefit in a general way from having East Houston's apartment units refurbished and from the availability of more housing for low-income families, nothing in the contract obligated East Houston to provide any municipal service directly to the City.”
• “It is clear that, while the City would benefit in a general way from having East Houston’s apartment units refurbished and from the availability of more housing for low-income families, nothing in the contract obligated East Houston to provide any municipal service directly to the City.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).