Houston/Trinity Gardens is an

African-American neighborhood African-American neighborhoods or black neighborhoods are types of ethnic enclaves found in many cities in the United States. Generally, an African American neighborhood is one where the majority of the people who live there are African American ...

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History

The

Subsistence Homesteads Division The Subsistence Homesteads Division (or Division of Subsistence Homesteads, SHD or DSH) of the United States Department of the Interior was a Alphabet agencies, New Deal agency that was intended to relieve industrial workers and struggling farmers ...

of the Interior Department, a program of the

New Deal The New Deal was a series of wide-reaching economic, social, and political reforms enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938, in response to the Great Depression in the United States, Great Depressi ...

, developed Houston Gardens to give the poor and landless people the opportunity the opportunity to become homeowners. Houston Gardens was the only such community developed in

Greater Houston Greater Houston, designated by the Office of Management and Budget, United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands, is the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical ...

area.Longoria, Rafael and Susan Rogers.
The Rurban Horseshoe
" ''Cite 73''. The Rice Design Alliance, (Northern Hemisphere) Winter 2008. Page 20. Retrieved on February 24, 2010. The City of Houston annexed it in the 1940s.

Cityscape

Rafael Longoria and Susan Rogers of the Rice Design Alliance described the Houston Gardens as "rurban," a word coined in 1918 which describes an area with a mix of urban and rural characteristics.Longoria, Rafael and Susan Rogers.
The Rurban Horseshoe
" ''Cite 73''. The Rice Design Alliance, (Northern Hemisphere) Winter 2008. Pages 18-19. Retrieved on February 24, 2010. The layout of Houston Gardens consists of a large oval, parceled into pie-shaped plots of lands. Longoria and Rogers said that "this unique plan is easy to spot on a Houston map."

Demographics

In 2015 the City of Houston Trinity/Houston Gardens Super Neighborhood had 15,798 residents. 77% were non-Hispanic black, 30% were Hispanic, 2% were non-Hispanic white, and 1% were non-Hispanic others. The percentage of non-Hispanic Asians was zero. In 2000, the super neighborhood had 18,054 residents. 81% were non-Hispanic black, 16% were Hispanic, 2% were non-Hispanic white, and 1% were non-Hispanic others. The percentage of non-Hispanic Asians was zero.

Government and infrastructure

Houston Gardens is in

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District B. The

Harris Health System The Harris Health System, previously the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD), is a governmental entity with taxing authority that owns and operates three hospitals and numerous clinics throughout Harris County, Texas, United States, includ ...

(formerly Harris County Hospital District) has designated Settegast Health Center for ZIP code 77028. The nearest public hospital is Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in northeast Houston.

Education

Houston Gardens is served by

Houston Independent School District The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest Public school (government funded), public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the ci ...

. Residents are zoned to Ernest McGowen Sr. Elementary School (previously Houston Gardens Elementary School), Key Middle School, and

Kashmere High School Kashmere High School is a secondary school in Houston, Texas that serves grades 9 through 12; it is a part of the Houston Independent School District. It is located in the Houston Gardens, Houston, Trinity Gardens neighborhood, and its namesake i ...

Parks and recreation

The City of Houston operates the Houston Gardens Park.Our Parks G-N
" City of Houston. Retrieved on February 25, 2010.

References

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