The riders are typically lower middle class and poor residents of the communities.
She brought the suit on behalf of other poor residents and herself.
The grants are no longer tied to the number of poor residents.
Some want its housing programs more focused on the city's poorest residents.
They say the state should provide money for increased city services that poor residents need.
And Washington's poor residents have benefited little, if at all.
Union officials say they try to give poor residents many of the new jobs.
The state now provides coverage to about 245,000 poor residents.
In the Houston area alone, it is estimated that 75,000 poor and elderly residents do not even have fans.
The offers, he said, are aimed at the neighborhood's poor and elderly residents.