I have one member in my van pool who used to live and work in Houston when White was the mayor. He said there were a lot of crooked deals done and his area’s streets were always bad, even though he and his neighbors asked the city to repair or resurface them. He said he had been on gravel country roads that were in better shape.
Once in awhile the tv station will take up the cause of someone in a Houston neighborhood. I realize to politicos the poor neighborhoods are meaningless - but this one story had an elderly lady desperately trying to get the city to haul off JUNK that people kept dumping on her street. There was old furniture and then just garbage. I can’t remember how many months she had been begging them to come haul it away but it took the tv station getting involved for her ward manager to do his job.