Houstonians tired of looking at graffiti-stained buildings now have a new weapon to fight back.
The City of Houston has created a Web site, www.houstontx.gov/graffiti, that provides information on painting over graffiti.
Vice Mayor Pro-Tem Sue Lovell developed the Houston Fights Graffiti Program that empowers property owners to do something about the graffiti as well as offer suggestions on what neighborhoods can do.
“We want organizations that work to fight graffiti and also those that work with young people involved with graffiti to use the site,” Lovell said in a statement.
The City of Houston spends more than $1 million on graffiti abatement, Lovell said. The figure doesn’t include money spent by other government entities and organizations as well as individual citizens and business owners, who paint over graffiti on their residences and businesses themselves.
