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Mayor Whitmire orders outside audit of tax increment reinvestment zones

Lately, members of council pretty shamelessly referred to tax increment reinvestment zones as a means of circumventing the voter approved property tax cap. So instead of combating blight, the Baker Institute at Rice says terraces have morphed into a mechanism which makes Houston's richest neighborhoods richer at the expense of less affluent areas of the city.