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. Instead the state collects revenue from property taxes (though these are collected at the county city and school district level; Texas has a state constitutional prohibition against a state property tax) and sales taxes the state sales tax rate is 6.25 percent but local taxing jurisdictions (cities counties special purpose districts and transit authorities) may also impose sales and use tax up to 2 percent for a total maximum combined rate of 8.25 percent; . . The Commerce Towers originally developed as an office building in 1928 by Houston businessman Jesse H Jones has been converted into condominiums in addition many old office buildings and warehouses surrounding downtown have been recently converted to lofts the Humble Towers Lofts built in 1921 was originally the headquarters for Humble Oil the Beaconsfield Lofts are registered with the US Interior Department's National Register of Historic Places, Houston Texas Business Directory Main article: Battle of Gonzales. .

In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster about 200,000 New Orleans residents resettled in Houston Soon following Katrina was Hurricane Rita a category 5 hurricane which caused 2.5 million Houstonians to evacuate the city the largest urban evacuation in the history of the U.S. .