Houston’s historic Third and Fifth Ward are facing rapid re-development, dense housing and cultural displacement as they navigate and confront gentrification.
Causes and Concerns
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Housing Inequities
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Infrastructure
Changes
03
Environmental
Hazards
Houston’s housing shortage is driven by zoning laws, development restrictions, and wealthy investors, with low-income neighborhoods as alternatives to downtown, and revitalization efforts making these areas more appealing.
Loss of Black Residents
With a combined loss of approximately 4,000 residents in the Third and Fifth Ward neighborhoods, it is evident that action is necessary. It’s time to work toward development that enriches without displacing.
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Let's work together and preserve the character and culture of our historic
Third and Fifth Ward neighborhoods.
Sources
- Governing. (2022, April 17). Houston gentrification maps and Data. Governing. https://www.governing.com/archive/houston-gentrification-maps-demographic-data.html
- How the Third Ward is fighting the “effects of unchecked gentrification”: Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Kinder Institute for Urban Research | Rice University. (n.d.). https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/how-third-ward-fighting-effects-unchecked-gentrification
- Ionescu, D. (2021, September 27). A tour of Houston’s rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Planetizen News. https://www.planetizen.com/news/2021/09/114774-tour-houstons-rapidly-gentrifying-neighborhoods
- Social explorer. (n.d.). https://www.socialexplorer.com/tables/ACS2021_5yr/R13597567
- Transit adjacent development and Neighborhood Change in Houston: Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Kinder Institute for Urban Research | Rice University. (n.d.). https://kinder.rice.edu/research/transit-adjacent-development-and-neighborhood-change-houston