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 By Clair Enlow
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February 20, 2002

Row house renovation renews community

  • In a Houston area worn thin by long years of isolation and disinvestment, Project Row Houses helps patch the community back together.
    • By CLAIR ENLOW
    Special to the Journal

    HOUSTON -- It’s as true in Houston as it is anywhere: Where you live is who you are. And what you call the neighborhood can also tell a lot about you.

    If you live in Houston's Third Ward, you are most likely African American and probably poor. But African Americans in higher economic strata all around this city identify with the place. That’s because it was once a thriving community.


     
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