Midtown Houston works hand-in-hand with outreach professionals, law enforcement, mental health experts, and transit authorities to create a safer, more welcoming neighborhood for all.
By meeting people where they are and offering consistent, compassionate support, we’re not only responding to a crisis, we’re investing in long-term solutions. Helping unhoused neighbors find stability strengthens our entire community. Through intentional, coordinated services, we’re working to reduce homelessness and build a healthier, more connected district.
SEARCH Homeless Services leads a highly specialized outreach team operating in Midtown. This team uses a progressive engagement model to build trust with individuals experiencing homelessness, offering consistent support through early morning, daytime, and nighttime outreach. Services include:
Together, we strive to ensure that every individual has a chance to find stability and gain their trust and steering them towards supportive services. Every moment of homelessness is short-lived, and every journey is striving towards a secure life.
CCAP is a unique, year-long pilot program funded by the Midtown Redevelopment Authority, designed to support chronically unhoused individuals with serious mental illness. A multidisciplinary team—featuring a Harris Center clinician, case manager, and Precinct 7 constable—provides intensive engagement and stabilization services.
What makes CCAP different?
Ensuring public safety is essential to successful outreach. Midtown’s network includes:
Midtown Houston invests in targeted initiatives to respond to the needs of our community:
HueMan:Shelter was a public art and social impact project that brought local artists and unhoused Houstonians together to co-create works that transformed public spaces and challenged perceptions of homelessness. Funded by a $1 million Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge grant, the project features art at METRO bus shelters, large-scale murals, and multimedia underpass installations. Through these collaborations, participants gained paid employment, job training, and connections to essential support services via Career and Recovery Resources’ UpRise Enterprise program. This initiative is part of Houston’s compassionate, innovative approach to making homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring. By combining creativity with economic opportunity, HueMan:Shelter fosters understanding, dignity, and community pride. The result was public art that not only beautified the city but also told human stories that inspired connection and change.
25 Flock Safety license plate cameras installed district-wide to support crime prevention and resolution.
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Every step we take is rooted in collaboration. By building strategic partnerships and investing in people-centered solutions, Midtown Houston is creating a district where every resident housed or unhoused is treated with dignity, care, and the opportunity to move forward.
If you or someone you know needs help, contact The Harris Center’s 24/7 Crisis & Access Line at 713-970-7000.
