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Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas (tan). This is a list of area codes in the U.S. state of Texas. The date of establishment of each area code is indicated in parentheses: [1] 210: San Antonio area; overlays with 726 (November 1, 1992) 214: Dallas area, overlays with 469, 972, and 945 (October 1947) 254: Waco, Killeen, Temple, Belton ...
This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
This article lists census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Texas. Census-designated places (CDPs) are unincorporated communities lacking elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status. [ 1 ]
Greer County, Oklahoma, once a part of Texas, was a sundown county from its founding until at least 1903. [ 138 ] [ 139 ] Holdenville, Oklahoma , was a place where "notices had been posted for the Negroes not to let the sun go down on them in said towns" in 1904.
The Farm Housing provisions of the United States Code define a colonia as a community that (1) is in the state of Arizona, California, New Mexico, or Texas; (2) is within 150 miles (240 km) of the Mexico–U.S. border (except for any metropolitan area exceeding one million people); (3) on the basis of objective criteria, lacks adequate sewage ...
Some slums may have been viable for inexpensively cleaning up through use of stricter safety and sanitation enforcement. In the mid 20th century, a housing court was established in Baltimore with the power to impose penalties for violations of agreed codes of practice, which in turn helped to regenerate around 16,000 slum properties.
The types of municipalities in Texas are defined in the Local Government Code, which was codified in 1987. The designations of city, town and village were superseded by Type A, B, and C general-law cities in the code. [5] In Texas, there are two forms of municipal government: general-law and home-rule.
A slum dwelling in Borgergade in central Copenhagen Denmark, about 1940. The Danish government passed The Slum Clearance Act in 1939, demolished many slums including Borgergade, replacing it with modern buildings by the early 1950s. [238] [239] Some city and state officials have simply sought to remove slums.