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Nov 11, 2021 · In Houston, Cooper and 1,000 other families in mostly Black and Latino neighborhoods may be forced from their homes for freeway expansions so colossal they would result in 34 lanes crisscrossing...
Sep 8, 2022 · In Houston, the Third Ward — the heart of the city’s Black community — remains blocked off on all sides by highways. The planned expansion would literally widen this divide.
Oct 11, 2019 · Texas' $7 billion plan to remake Houston highways once again targets homes, businesses in communities of color. Historic black neighborhoods like Independence Heights and the Fifth Ward are...
Jan 25, 2022 · But a multibillion highway project to expand Interstate 45 could displace Black residents in the Fifth Ward – a situation London calls “very painful and legalized theft.” “It seems to be...
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May 16, 2024 · Meet the Texans working to ensure we make different choices in Megan Kimble’s new book “ City Limits.” Freeways rip apart neighborhoods, displace primarily Black and Brown people and increase greenhouse gas emissions — so why do we keep building them?
Dec 7, 2021 · Community leaders told federal government officials in Houston that the proposal to remake 24 miles of Interstate 45 would harm Black and Latino neighborhoods.
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Aug 19, 2021 · With many Black neighborhoods here in Houston and in cities across the country still disconnected from access to high-quality housing, jobs and public transit, the Biden administration is proposing...
