Here less is more,

The city of Houston has a $2 billion-a-year budget, ... so $3 million is not going to make or break your city budget.

We think the major shelters will be closed next week.

We're working hard to make the housing department more efficient and provide more affordable housing. Those efforts aren't diminished. But we're complying with what the Housing and Urban Development department has said.

If you announced a shelter, what we would have had is people who were fearful would have rushed to the shelter and they would have been overwhelmed and the people on the streets would be crowded out,

but we were told Friday that they [FEMA] had put $39 million in the bank.