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The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) is the state's lead agency responsible for homeownership, affordable rental housing, community and energy assistance programs, and colonia activities serving primarily low income Texans. The Manufactured Housing Division of TDHCA regulates the manufactured housing industry in Texas.
Emancipation Park and Emancipation Community Center are located at 3018 Emancipation Ave in the Third Ward area of Houston. [1] It is the oldest park in Houston, [2] and the oldest in Texas. [3] In portions of the Jim Crow period it was the sole public park in the area available to African-Americans. [4]
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County, as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the ...
The Center was founded as the Houston Lesbian and Gay Community Center in 1996 by a group of activists. The Center moved into its first facility at 803 Hawthorne Avenue in March 1998 during the administration of Brian J. Tognotti, the first president of the Center, [8] [verification needed] and moved a suite at 3400 Montrose Boulevard in early 2003 during the first presidency of Timothy ...
The community is between Interstate 610 and Beltway 8 and it is 15 miles (24 km) from Downtown Houston. [2] Windsor Village has large brick, ranch houses and large lawns. Mary Ann Fergus of the Houston Chronicle said that the houses and lawns give the community "a comfortable sofa feel". [2]
Zoned schools: Garcia Elementary School, [22] Henry Middle School, [23] and Sam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center (High School). [24] Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village - Fourth Ward; Historical Rental Initiative - Fourth Ward This is the management of thirty single-family houses in the Fourth Ward designated for HHA tenants. [25]
The George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB), opened on September 26, 1987, [2] is located on the east side of Downtown Houston, Texas, United States.. The center was named for internationally recognized entrepreneur, engineer, civic leader, philanthropist and Houstonian George R. Brown (1898–1983).
CityCentre is located on the former site of Town & Country Mall, a 1-million-square-foot (93,000 m 2) shopping center which competed with neighboring Memorial City Mall from 1983 to 2004. [6] Poor accessibility to the site due to the construction of the Sam Houston Tollway , as well as a local recession in the late 1980s, resulted in the ...