{"articles":[{"archiveId":"alta-housing-affordability-20260910","category":"business","communitySubmission":true,"content":"HOUSTON — Housing affordability is improving across Greater Houston, but the region’s latest figures underscore why homes below the median price remain important to buyers.\n\nThe Houston Association of Realtors reported that 40% of area households could afford a median-priced home in the second quarter of 2026, compared with 36% a year earlier. The improvement still left most households below that affordability benchmark. HAR’s second-quarter affordability report\n\nAugust brought further moderation in prices. Greater Houston’s single-family median sale price was $330,000, down 1.5% from a year earlier, according to HAR’s September 9 market report. Those regional figures encompass different neighborhoods and property types, rather than describing every local market equally. HAR’s August market report\n\nIn Montgomery County, Alta Homes is among the builders offering homes below that regional median, with advertised prices beginning in the $170,000s.\n\nAs of September 10, the company listed a two-bedroom home at Lake Conroe Village in the Montgomery area for $174,990. Its inventory also included a three-bedroom home at Lexington Heights in Willis for $239,990, with October availability, and a three-bedroom home at Crockett Meadows in Conroe for $254,990. These are asking prices for specific properties, subject to availability. Alta’s published inventory\n\n“Buyers in these areas are asking for affordability, but they still want a nice place to call home,” said Dru Kahlenberg, CEO of Alta Homes. “We’ve adjusted our construction designs and our approach to better meet that need.”\n\nKahlenberg said the company’s focus includes maintaining construction quality at its entry-level prices and providing personal guidance through the buying process. For Alta, he said, responding to affordability concerns involves both the home itself and the experience of purchasing it.\n\nFor buyers, an attainable purchase price is the beginning of the calculation. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recommends accounting for property taxes, insurance, association fees where applicable, utilities and maintenance alongside the mortgage payment. CFPB’s homebuying budget guidance\n\nA home in Willis, Conroe or the Montgomery area may offer a different balance of price, space and location than a property closer to central Houston. Comparing those tradeoffs—and the full cost of ownership—helps buyers determine which option fits their household.","excerpt":"Contributed article: What Greater Houston’s latest housing figures and Alta Homes’ Conroe, Willis and Montgomery-area listings mean for buyers.","id":"alta-housing-affordability-20260910","image":"/media/alta-20260910-482657782be79a07.jpg","imageCredit":"An Alta Homes residence at 12007 Curlin Drive in Lexington Heights in Willis. Courtesy of Alta Homes.","imageHeight":600,"imageWidth":800,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-10T14:31:00.000Z","publishDate":"2026-09-10T14:31:00.000Z","published":"2026-09-10T14:31:00.000Z","slug":"houston-housing-affordability-improves-with-lower-priced-options-taking-shape-north-of-the-city","source":"Alta Homes","title":"Houston housing affordability improves, with lower-priced options taking shape north of the city","url":"https://www.myaltahomes.com/","needsResolve":false,"needsImageFetch":false},{"id":null,"archiveId":"hm2026","slug":"harper-madison-woodlands-rising-manga-artist","title":"Lines, Legends & Limitless Talent: Meet Harper Madison, The Woodlands' Rising Manga Artist","excerpt":"Walk into any seventh-grade classroom in The Woodlands and you'll find the usual assortment of spiral notebooks, half-finished homework, and doodles in the margins. What you won't expect — what stops people in their tracks — are the fully realized, intricately detailed manga panels that fill Harper Madison's pages from edge to edge.","content":"Walk into any seventh-grade classroom in The Woodlands and you'll find the usual assortment of spiral notebooks, half-finished homework, and doodles in the margins. What you won't expect — what stops people in their tracks — are the fully realized, intricately detailed manga panels that fill Harper Madison's pages from edge to edge.\n\nHarper is thirteen years old, and she is already working at a level of artistic sophistication that takes most illustrators years of dedicated study to reach. Her characters breathe. Their expressions carry emotional weight. Her compositions — layered vignettes orbiting a central figure, panels within panels, dynamic action frozen in graphite and pigment — feel like pages torn from a professional anthology, not a middle schooler's sketchbook.\n\nWhat sets Harper apart isn't just technical skill, though that alone is remarkable. It's her instinct for narrative. Every piece she creates tells a story. In one recent colored-pencil work, a central character stands at the crossroads of their world — jersey number 17, the glow of Olympic rings floating nearby, a strawberry tucked into a thought bubble, secondary characters murmuring in the periphery. It's a complete universe rendered on a single sheet of paper, and every element was placed there with intention.\n\nPerhaps most impressive is how Harper channels her artistic voice into the world around her. In a recent piece titled Battle of San Jacinto — a subject drawn straight from Texas history class — she reimagined the legendary confrontation between Sam Houston's forces and General Santa Anna entirely in her signature manga style. The figures are dressed in period detail, the battle-worn textures are painstakingly cross-hatched, and the storytelling framing is pure Harper: cinematic, expressive, alive.\n\nIt's the kind of creative fusion — academic subject matter filtered through a distinctive personal lens — that signals an artist who isn't just talented, but genuinely original. Harper doesn't copy a style. She inhabits it and makes it her own.\n\nThat Harper signs every piece with a clean, deliberate copyright mark — © HarperMadison 2026 — speaks volumes about the seriousness with which she approaches her craft. This is not a hobby she dabbles in between classes. It is a practice, a discipline, a point of view. She protects her work because she values it, and that self-awareness as a creative is something even professional artists sometimes spend a career learning.\n\nThe manga and anime tradition she draws from — Japan's globally beloved visual storytelling language — is one of the most technically demanding art forms in popular culture. Mastering its anatomy, its linework, its expressive vocabulary of eyes and motion lines and panel composition requires hundreds of hours of study and practice. The fact that Harper is doing so at thirteen, with results this confident and polished, puts her on a trajectory that any art educator would find extraordinary.\n\nThe Woodlands has always been a community that nurtures talent — in athletics, in academics, in music. Harper Madison is a reminder that the next generation of homegrown creatives is already at work, pen in hand, filling pages with worlds of their own making.\n\nKeep an eye on this name. Harper Madison. Write it down.","url":"https://willisnews.org/news/harper-madison-woodlands-rising-manga-artist","image":"https://willisnews.org/imgp?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwillisnews.org%2Ffeatures%2Fharper-madison-display.jpg","publishDate":"2026-04-09T18:00:00.000Z","source":"Willis News Editorial","sourceType":"editorial","author":"Willis News","category":"local","type":"feature","secondImage":"https://willisnews.org/features/harper-san-jacinto.jpg","needsResolve":false,"needsImageFetch":false},{"id":"9gsqs1","title":"Lake Conroe Lions: Club members planning Cruisin’ 2026 Car Show for Oct. 10","url":"https://lakeconroe.com/lake-conroe-area-news/lake-conroe-lions-club-members-planning-cruisin-2026-car-show-for-oct-10/","excerpt":"Lake Conroe Centennial Lions Club held a meeting recently at Walden Yacht Club. Bill Hogan began with a prayer followed by President Todd Keifer leading us in the Pledge to the American Flag and then the Pledge to the Texas Flag. 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Participating organizations and local businesses are working together to identify practical ways to support students and families throughout the year.\n\nAmong those community partners is Kirk Murphy of Golden Corral, who has joined the effort to help provide meal gift coupons for selected students, adding another meaningful layer of support for children and families in the community.\n\nLove in Action, a local charitable organization serving Willis and surrounding communities, also participated in the backpack initiative. The organization has established a strong community presence through programs focused on helping children and families who may need additional assistance.\n\nThe recent giveaway brought charitable organizations, local businesses and school leadership together with a common purpose: making sure students begin the school year prepared and encouraged.\n\nKahlenberg said the back-to-school program is only one part of a broader year-round commitment.\n\n“Today we are giving back through backpacks and school supplies, but our commitment doesn't end when the school year begins,” Kahlenberg said. “We are already looking ahead to the holidays and opportunities to help children and families who may need a little extra support. When local businesses, schools and charitable organizations work together, we can make a real difference in our communities.”\n\nPlans are already underway for the upcoming Christmas season, including the development of Christmas gift lists for some of the most vulnerable children living in local subdivisions and communities throughout Montgomery County. The goal is to identify children and families with genuine needs and help provide Christmas gifts and other assistance during the holiday season.\n\nKahlenberg and his affiliated charitable organizations, including Humanity Squared, Warriors Fund, and The Galen Foundation, support a variety of community projects and organizations throughout Montgomery County and Galveston, with an emphasis on children, families and locally focused assistance.\n\nFor Kahlenberg, a local land developer with longstanding involvement in area communities, the charitable work is closely connected to the places where he lives, works and develops.\n\nThe recent backpack initiative also included participation from local school leadership, including Principal Susan Fossler and her team, who helped connect the charitable effort with students and the school community.\n\nAdditional community partners and participating organizations will be recognized as the program continues.\n\nFrom backpacks and school supplies today to meals, Christmas gifts and future community programs, the organizations involved say the objective remains simple: local people and local organizations working together to take care of their neighbors.\n\nGiving back locally, one family and one child at a time.\n\n———\n\nThis article was submitted by the participating organizations and is published as a community submission. It was not independently reported by this newsroom, and the statements in it are the submitters' own. Readers should know that this publication's owner serves on the boards of Humanity Squared and The Galen Foundation and is an officer of the organization behind Warriors Fund, all of which are named above.","excerpt":"Backpacks and school supplies were handed out at CC Hardy Elementary in Willis as charitable organisations, local businesses and campus staff opened the school year together — with meal coupons and a Christmas gift drive already planned.","id":"mocobp26","image":"/features/backpack-giveaway-cc-hardy.jpg","imageCredit":"Backpacks ready for students at CC Hardy Elementary in Willis, where community partners and campus staff gathered for the back-to-school handoff. 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