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Home insurance rates on the rise

Homeowners across Texas are facing soaring insurance costs and policy cancellations as insurers pull back due to rising risks, including natural disasters. Homeowners in the Champion Forest neighborhood near Cypress Creek have historically experienced ooding, freezes and more. (Jamaal Ellis/Community Impact)

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Impacts: Check out Tacos Santos, now open in Spring (Page 6)

Education: See how Klein ISD is providing raises in 202526 (Page 9)

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quesadillas wrapped in handmade tortillas as well as tortas and asada fries. • Opened May 9 • 8312 Louetta Road, Ste. C, Spring • Instagram: @tacos.santos_ 4 Harpers Bagels The family-run bagel shop offers a variety of bagel and cream cheese flavors along with breakfast and lunch sandwiches. • Opened May 21 • 16949 N. Eldridge Parkway, Tomball • www.harpersbagels.com 5 Viva Jalisco The restaurant offers fajitas, enchiladas, quesadillas, menudo and tacos. • Opened in April • 20706 Kuykendahl Road, Ste. F, Spring • www.vivajaliscorestaurant.com 6 Bank OZK The new location offers debit cards, foreign country exchange, mortgages, consumer loans and notary services. • Opened May 28 • 2821 FM 1960 W., Houston • www.ozk.com 7 Garage Werks The business offers luxury garages for cars, boats, RVs

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and motorcycles. • Opened June 1 • 12402 Malcomson Road, Houston • www.garagewerks.net

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2 Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen The location can seat up to 260 guests and has a menu including pollo marisco, burrito con queso, fajitas and more. The business also has a full bar menu. • Opened June 24 • 13035 Grand Parkway, Tomball • www.gringostexmex.com

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8 Center for Vein Restoration The vascular care center’s treatments include vein disease treatment, spider veins and varicose veins. • Opened April 21 • 20207 Chasewood Park Drive, Ste. 203, Houston • www.centerforvein.com

1 HiPot Hot Pot & BBQ The location offers all-you-can-eat dining with a variety of meats, seafood and vegetables that can be grilled or added to a broth at the table. • Opened July 15 • 21460 Kuykendahl Road, Ste. 240, Spring • Instagram: @hipotllc

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9 The Fitzpatrick Group The full-service financial planning and wealth management firm opened a second location. • Opened in May • 20405 Hwy. 249, Ste. 640, Houston • www.fitzgrp.com

• 6600 Spring Stuebner Road, Spring • www.barnesandnoble.com

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14 Bath & Body Works The fragrance company is opening a 2,400-square-foot store. • Opening this fall • 22513 Hwy. 249, Ste. 109, Tomball • www.bathandbodyworks.com 15 AutoZone Auto Parts Opening at a 35,400-square-foot space that formerly housed an Office Depot, the business offers car parts, battery testing and charging, and check engine light testing, among other services. • Opening in 2026 • 4534 FM 1960 W., Houston • www.autozone.com

10 DexaFit The health and wellness testing center offers a VO2 Max test, metabolism test and an artificial intelligence- driven DexaFit body scan. • Opened in early July • 7630 Dowdell Road, Ste. 802, Tomball • www.woodlands.dexafit.com 11 Raised Spirits The family-owned liquor store offers personalized drink consultations, cocktail mixers, daily tastings, and beers sourced locally and from around the world • Opened in April • 5827 Cypresswood Drive, Ste. 600, Spring • Facebook: Raised Spirits TX Sipsters A mobile bar created by two bartender sisters is available for private events, pop-ups and special occasions. • Opened June 26 • Facebook: Sipsters Mobile Bar

20 Professions Performing Arts The dance studio celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, owner Michelle Thiry confirmed. The studio offers both recreational and competitive dance training for all ages in styles such as ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary and hip-hop, and it has had a history of students going on to dance professionally. • 21631 Rhodes Road, Bldg. B, Ste. 204, Spring • www.ppadance.com

In the news

16 Fiancée Bridal Boutique The business is marking its 10th anniversary with a bridal show and party on Aug. 24 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The boutique offers bridal gowns ranging from $1,000-

$3,000 in sizes 2-20. • 200 Main St., Spring • www.fianceebridalboutique.com

17 Lynn’s Table Chefs Jessica and Matthew Lynn celebrated Lynn’s Table’s 10th anniversary in May. The chef-owned and operated restaurant also has an ice cream and dessert parlor. • 307 Gentry St., Old Town Spring • www.lynnstable.com 18 Kroger A remodel starting in late July will include new store decor, expanded departments and updated furnishings. The grocery store will remain open during the

19 Ace Hardware The store will hold a grand re-opening Aug. 22-24 after the building underwent a full store reset following a change in ownership. • 9001 Spring Cypress Road, Spring • www.acehardware.com Spring ISD playgrounds Playgrounds at 23 Spring ISD elementary schools will receive upgrades beginning this fall totaling $2.2 million, funded by interest income from the district’s $850 million bond—which was approved in 2022. • www.springisd.org

Coming soon

12 Los Cucos Mexican Cafe The menu features fajitas, nachos, quesadillas and tacos, among other Tex-Mex classics. • Opening date TBD • 1401 Lake Plaza Drive, Ste. 100, Spring • www.loscucos.com 13 Barnes & Noble The store will feature books, toys, games and gifts at a 12,500-square-foot space formerly occupied by Party City. • Opening in November

renovations, slated to wrap up Oct. 31. • 8745 Spring Cypress Road, Spring • www.kroger.com

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Government

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Violence prevention center coming to Spring Harris County Public Health officials are prepar- ing to open a new community center in Cypress Station that will serve as a neighborhood hub to help reduce violence and crime in the area. “We want [residents] to achieve self-sufficiency and really adopt a pro-social lifestyle,” said Lupe Washington, HCPH’s director of the community health and violence prevention services division. “So if that’s helping them work through some of the trauma that they’ve experienced because of violence or gun violence, we are there to try and help meet those needs for the participants.” Digging deeper The new center, the RISE Empowerment Center, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new facility June 3. Once staffing needs are filled later in the year, Washington said, the facility will open to the public.

New chief public defender named

RISE Empowerment Center

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Harris County commissioners unani- mously approved the appointment of Harris County’s next chief public defender, Judge Genesis Draper, a veteran public defender and criminal court judge, on June 12. Draper began this role July 7, replacing former Chief Alex Bunin, who will retire in December after serving 15 years in his position as the county’s first chief public defender, according to a June news release. Quote of note “I will be stepping into this role after 13 years as a public defender and now six years as a judge,” Draper said. “Those years have deepened my belief that justice depends on not just the law, but people being willing to defend it, and I appreciate the opportunity to do so.”

Cypress Station was selected for the new facility after county officials determined the area not only had high rates of gun violence, but also lacked resources such as transportation and programming. The team at the center will work to ensure residents get the necessary services, Washington said. Community outreach specialists are already engaging with individuals who are at the highest risk of being perpetrators or victims of crime and help them if they need access to jobs and medical or mental health services.

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Education

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Klein ISD teachers to receive raises in 2025-26 school year law June 4, as previously reported by Community Impact. Nearly half of that funding will be spent on raises for educators and support staff, such as bus drivers, janitors and librarians. House Bill 2

Klein ISD teachers will receive raises ranging from $1,400-$5,000 as well as one-time retention incentives for the 2025-26 school year, which begins Aug. 4 for employees. What you need to know During a June 24 meeting, KISD’s board of trustees unanimously approved the employee raise package. “Our people are the heart of KISD,” board President Rob Ellis said via a letter sent to KISD employees that KISD provided to Community Impact. “The board is honored to show our sup- port and appreciation for our outstanding Klein employees by approving a competitive compensa-

$8.5B in funding for school districts statewide

KISD is expected to receive about $29.4 million in additional funding from HB 2, KISD Chief Finan- cial Officer Dan Schaeffer said during the school board’s June 9 meeting. About $17.3 million of the funding, or 59%, is earmarked for nonadministra- tor employee raises under the bill’s requirements, he added. Stay tuned KISD trustees also unanimously approved the fiscal year 2025-26 budget June 24. Total expenses in the FY 2025-26 budget are about 4% higher than in the FY 2024-25 budget, according to June 24 meeting documents. A request for all FY 2025-26 budget documents was pending with KISD as of press time July 9.

KISD

$29.4M received from HB 2

Raises

About $17.3M will be dedicated to employee salary raises

+$1.4K +$2.5K +$5K +2%

tion package.” Some context

for teachers with 1-2 years of experience

for teachers with 3-4 years of experience

for teachers with 5+ years of experience

for all other full-time employees

Texas’ nearly 9,000 public schools will see an $8.5 billion funding boost over the next two years after Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 2 into

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Transportation

BY DANICA LLOYD

Asphalt reconstruction projects, new traffic lights planned for Spring-Klein

Spring-Klein projects

Asphalt reconstruction

Traffic lights

GOSLING RD.

Harris County Precinct 3 is planning several asphalt improvement packages in the Spring-Klein area as well as new traffic lights to improve safety, traffic flow and mobility. The details Precinct 3 officials said the following asphalt projects are in the design phase: • Portions of Spring Cypress Road east of I-45 • Portions of Louetta Road between Cutten Road and I-45 • Portions of Hargrave Road near Hwy. 249 • Portions of Old Town Spring • Dowdell Road from Kuykendahl Road to FM 2920 Most projects will consist of reconstructing the surface material and scattered repairs where there are failures, but the Dowdell Road portion as well

as areas of Old Town Spring will be fully recon- structed, officials said. "Reconstruction requires that you remove the existing surface, base and subbase material and reconstruct the roadway from the ground up. This is done for roadways in very poor conditions," said Jeannie Peng, communications manager for Precinct 3. Construction timelines and costs have not yet been set. What else? New traffic lights are also in the works. Projects are in the design phase at: • Gosling Road at Hampton Pointe Boulevard • Kuykendahl Road at Cypressdale Drive • Stuebner Airline Road at Five Forks Drive

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Mad Llama Brewing marks one year in Spring What started as a garage hobby between broth- ers-in-law Stephen Daulong and Arrian Brantley has grown into Mad Llama Brewing, a hometown brewery that opened last June in Spring.

Llama Brewing. The brewery aims to promote community engagement with weekly events including steak night, ladies night, bingo, trivia and live music. The brewery also supports local vendors and has 16 rotating food trucks on-site. Respecting the craft With a process that can take several months, Mad Llama Brewery oers 12 rotating craft beers including the Elder Llama Double IPA, Honey Llama Lager, and the Amber Llama. In addition to beer, the brewery also oers handcrafted hard seltzers with seven types of avored syrups to choose from and a nonalcoholic root beer.

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“It started o with us just hanging out drinking beer, and then it super escalated from there,” Brantley said. The inspiration Born and raised in the Spring-Klein area, Dau- long said he graduated from Klein High School and the University of Houston, while Brantley has been a resident for over 24 years. After brewing beer together for fun, the two developed over 100 recipes. Today, they are the local brewers serving handcrafted beers at Mad

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Real estate Home Edition

CONTRIBUTIONS BY LIZZY SPANGLER BY DANICA LLOYD

2025

Welcome to your annual CI Home Edition! This guide highlights key real estate trends unique to your community. In this edition, we explore what’s happening with home insurance across the state and how that’s impacting Spring-Klein residents. Our team interviewed real estate experts, local insurance agents, state department officials and state lawmakers to help explain why home insurance rates continue to climb in Texas. We also learn more about how homeowners associations operate and find out which factors are affecting the local real estate market most. All of the stories were written by our team of local journalists, and all of the advertisements are from nearby businesses that support our mission to provide free, useful news.

What's inside

Learn the ins and outs of homeowners associations (Page 14)

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Find out why electric bills in Spring are higher than average (Page 15)

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Home inventory reaches 8-year high

Also of note

During the first three months of 2025, 45% of Harris County households could afford to buy a median- priced home in Spring, compared to a countywide average of 34%, according to HAR’s Q1 Housing and Rental Affordability Report released May 8. In the first quarter, the median price of a home in the Spring area was $252,990, with a minimum qualifying annual household income of $78,800. Harris County’s median home was $325,000, and its minimum qualifying income was $100,400, according to the report. Out of the 19 submarkets within Harris County, Spring was tied for the third-most affordable area. Alief and Humble were the only two submarkets where more people could afford the median home price, HAR reported.

pandemic affected inventory levels, which were as low as 0.47 months locally in February 2022. Homebuilders have since helped replenish that stock across the region, he said. “I think what we’re actually seeing right now is a normalizing of the market,” Cottar said at the June 10 Houston Northwest Chamber of Commerce luncheon. “We’re getting it back to something that’s more sustainable because those 3.5% interest rates ... are not sustainable.”

With 964 active home listings by the end of April, Spring-Klein had more than four months of inventory available for the first time since summer 2017, according to the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center. Months of inventory measures how long it would take to sell all existing listings at the current sales pace. Shae Cottar, chair of the Houston Association of Realtors, said supply chain issues and record-low interest rates during the COVID-19

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CHART INCLUDES DATA FROM THE SPRING/KLEIN, SPRING/KLEIN/TOMBALL AND CHAMPIONS SUBMARKETS.

SOURCE: TEXAS A&M REAL ESTATE CENTER/COMMUNITY IMPACT

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Real estate

BY EMILY LINCKE

BY DIEGO COLLAZO

Spring region seeing higher-than-average electricity bills

What is a homeowners association?

Zooming out

Crihfield said the duties of HOAs can include: • Enforcing community rules

Electricity prices have risen sharply across Texas, and local residents are feeling the effects. The details While statewide issues are the biggest contrib- utor to rising electricity prices, Spring-area homes could see higher electric prices due to home size and usage rates, according to northwest Hous- ton-based Electricity Plans, a digital resource that helps homeowners and business owners find the best electricity plans for them. Spring homes are larger than the average home in the Houston area, and homeowners typically have a higher-than-average monthly electricity bill compared to the rest of the state, according to Electricity Plans. Why it matters Nearly 60% of Texans said cost was the primary reason for choosing their electricity provider, according to a survey conducted by Electricity

Plans. Officials provided the following tips to help homeowners lower their electricity bills: • Set your thermostat conservatively • Maintain your HVAC system with regular tune- ups and air filter changes • Close blinds in rooms with southern sun exposure Zooming in Average electricity prices in Texas have increased by over 60% since 2021, according to Electricity Plans. “Electricity prices used to be very closely tied to the price of natural gas, and we no longer see that,” said Rebecca Bridges, chief marketing officer for Electricity Plans. Bridges said the 2021 winter freeze was a major turning point, triggering widespread power out- ages and shaking public trust in the state’s power grid. The resulting infrastructure and regulation

Homeowners associations, which collect resident fees to manage communities, are especially common in the Houston region, 2023 data shows. About 51% of occupied homes in the Houston region, compared to 30% statewide, were part of a property owners association, according to 2023 U.S. Census Bureau American Housing Survey data. Texas HOAs are usually operated as nonprofit corporations and are governed by a volunteer board of directors, according to the Texas State Law Library’s website. HOAs are sometimes assisted by an HOA management company, and an HOA’s primary job is to preserve property values, said Savannah Crihfield, the owner of Houston HOA management firm CH&P Management, via a June 19 email. “If you receive a violation notice from your

Spring, Klein HOAs by ZIP code

Average home size (in square footage)

• Managing shared amenities such as pools • Maintaining infrastructure such as lights A common myth about HOAs is that they have unlimited power, but the organizations have governing documents and are tasked with enforcing the rules in property deeds, Crihfield said. While they are not governed by a state agency, HOAs must operate within laws guiding other nonprofits, according to the Texas State Law Library. Under the Texas Residential Property Owners Protection Act, HOA boards: • Must keep meetings open to members, except for certain topics such as personnel discussions • Give notice before enforcing rules

77389: 31

2,300

Spring

1,952

Houston

99 TOLL

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2,031

Texas

77379: 83

249

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1960

77068: 11

77070: 37

1,531

Spring

77069: 26

1,300

Houston

1,176

Texas

SOURCE: WWW.HOA.TEXAS.GOV/COMMUNITY IMPACT

HOA, please don’t be offended. It is actually the duty of the board of directors to enforce restrictions to prevent property values from deteriorating over time,” she said.

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changes have contributed to price hikes, she said. Those outages have led to 54% of Texans saying they don’t trust the Texas power grid to handle extreme weather, according to the survey.

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From the cover

Home insurance rates on the rise

BY RACHEL LELAND

The conditions

The background

Home insurance rate changes

from 2020 to 2023

In Texas, 160 companies offer homeowners insurance policies, which is a 20% increase compared to a decade ago, according to the TDI. In 2023, insurance companies sold more than 8.7 million policies in Texas, up 35% from 2013. Still, insurers are struggling in Texas, according to filings from multiple companies. In 2022, the San Antonio-based United States Army Automo- bile Association, or USAA, reported the first loss in its 102-year history. Other companies are limiting the policies they write in Texas, filings show. Texas insurance profitability Three times in the past decade, insurance companies in Texas paid out more money than they collected, resulting in a loss in certain years.

-1% or less

0% to 19%

20% to 39%

40% to 59%

60% to 80%

Texas has some of the highest home insurance premiums in the nation, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. These rates and the resulting cost are leading many to forgo home insurance altogether. Laura Crain, president of Crain Insurance Group, which serves the Spring and Klein communities, said the problem is not only a Texas issue, but one that plagues homeowners nationwide. Texas uses a file-and-use system for home insurance, which allows companies to issue higher rates without state approval as long as they notify the state, per the Texas Department of Insurance. “They could just slide an envelope across the desk at [the TDI] and tell them, ‘This is what we’re charging,’ and then put that into practice immediately,” said Ware Wendell, executive director of Texas Watch, which monitors insurance practices in the state. It’s incumbent upon the TDI to challenge hikes that don’t comply with state law, Wendell said. Of the more than 2,300 rate filings the TDI reviewed in 2024, none were disapproved, according to the TDI. From 2022 to 2023, insurance premiums in Texas spiked 23%, compared to the U.S. average increase of 11%, according to S&P Global, which specializes in information and analytics around finance and business.

No data available

Brazoria County: +24% Fort Bend County: +47% Galveston County: +24% Harris County: +28%

150% Years with a profit

Years with a loss

SOURCE: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH/COMMUNITY IMPACT

John Cobarruvias, a state consumer advocate, said he feels price increases from contractors are a cause for rising insurance costs for policyholders. Costs of repairing items such as roofs have risen over the past decade, he said, which in turn drives up the costs of insurance. To help solve the issue, Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 2067 into law on June 20, which will require insurers to provide a reason for when they decline, cancel or don’t renew a policy.

100%

50%

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Harris County nonrenewal rates

How it works

Throughout the Greater Houston area, more homeowners have opted to not renew their insurance polices year-over-year since 2021.

Looking ahead

Insurance companies have recently reported they’re facing risks, such as natural disasters and the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lumber and building costs. Carriers have increased the premiums of their policyholders nationwide; however, the Hous- ton area has experienced dramatic increases as analysts deem the area “high risk,” Crain said. “We are in what we would consider more of a high-risk [area], because we see a lot of natural disasters, you know, we have the wind and hail, we have the hurricane, we have the flooding, we have all of these different events that do impact our insurance,” Crain said. “So we are seeing rate increases.” Like its predecessors, such as Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Hurricane Beryl caused billions of dollars in damage last

0% 2018 2019 2020 2021

2022 2023

According to a June 17 report from Rice University’s Kinder Institute of Urban Research, home insurance increases brought on by extreme weather events could add more than $15,000 to home costs. Experts in the report recommend data- driven infrastructure planning and accurate flood risk mapping to address climate risks across Harris County, where more than 20% of all housing units are in major flood areas. “The risk is going to continue to grow, and it’s really on us to figure out ... what we do with these spaces where we have so much infrastructure and economic investment and development in a place like Houston,” said Jeremy Porter, head of climate implications research at the nonprofit First Street.

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1.5%

Harris County

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summer, according to property analytics firm CoreLogic. In December, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget published nonrenewal rates, confirming areas most vulnerable to climate-related risks have the highest nonrenewal rates and the most significant rate increases.

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Residential market data The Spring-Klein area saw more homes sold this June in four of six ZIP codes compared to last June. Additionally, home prices declined year over year in four of six ZIP codes.

Number of homes sold

June 2024

June 2025

+57.1%

-27.3%

+4%

+11.2%

+3.8%

-10.3%

77068

77069

77070

77379

77388

77389

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Median home sales price

77379

249

1960

June

2024

2025

77068

77070

$476,000 $371,850 $330,000 $380,000 $314,000 $571,000

$361,000 $367,500 $310,000 $382,000 $295,000 $584,995

77068

77069

77070

77379

77388

77389

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Average days on market

-20.5%

+34.8%

-3.6%

+15.4%

+31.6%

-12.9%

77068

77069

77070

77379

77388

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