Harris County Housing Authority

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Harris County Housing Authority (HCHA) is the low-income housing and public housing authority of Harris County, Texas in Greater Houston. Its headquarters are in southern Houston. [1] It mainly serves areas outside of Houston, as the Houston Housing Authority serves that city.

Harris County, Texas County in Texas

Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas, located in the southeastern part of the state near Galveston Bay. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 4,092,459, making it the most populous county in Texas and the third most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, the largest city in Texas and fourth largest city in the United States. The county was founded in 1836 and organized in 1837. It is named for John Richardson Harris, who founded the town of Harrisburg on Buffalo Bayou in 1826. According to a July 2018 Census estimate, Harris County's population had grown to 4,698,619, comprising over 16 percent of Texas's population.

Greater Houston Metropolitan area in Texas, United States

Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas. With a population of 6,997,384 people, as of 2018 census estimates, the MSA is the second-most populous in Texas after the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Colloquially referred to as Greater Houston, the 10,000-square-mile (26,000 km2) region centers on Harris County, the third-most populous county in the nation, which contains the city of Houston—the largest economic and cultural center of the South—with a population of 2.3 million. Greater Houston is part of the Texas Triangle megaregion along with the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Greater Austin, and Greater San Antonio.

Houston Largest city in Texas

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In 2017, due to a decrease in the federal government budgets funding housing choice vouchers, it canceled some and stopped the issuance of new ones. [2]

Public housing

The HCHA has eight senior housing properties owned and/or operated by the agency. [3] As of 2018 four of them are in the Texas State Highway 249/Farm to Market Road 1960 area. [4] These include (and are located in unincorporated areas unless otherwise specified): [3]

Texas State Highway 249 highway in Texas

State Highway 249, SH 249, the Tomball Parkway, Tomball Tollway or West Mount Houston Road is a generally north–south highway in Southeast Texas. The current northern terminus of the highway is in Pinehurst at the intersection of FM 1774 and FM 149. The Southern terminus is in North Houston at Interstate 45.

Farm to Market Road 1960 road in Texas

Farm to Market Road 1960 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas. Its western terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Highway 290 and State Highway 6 in northwestern Harris County. It travels generally to the east, ending at State Highway 321 in Dayton in western Liberty County. FM 1960 has long been an artery around Houston, though it has been shortened and re-routed over the years. Once consisting of most of the current State Highway 6 in West Houston as well as its current northern route, it still traverses 26 ZIP codes north of the Houston city limits.

Webster, Texas City in Texas, United States

Webster is a city in the U.S. state of Texas located in Harris County, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population was 10,684 at the 2010 census.

Texas House of Representatives

The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. As of the 2010 Census, each member represents about 167,637 people. There are no term limits, with the most senior member, Tom Craddick, having been elected in 1968.

Billy Allen Fletcher, known as Allen Fletcher, is a security company owner from Tomball, a suburb of Houston, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives. He represented District 130 in northwestern Harris County from 2009 through 2017.

The HCHA owns and/or operates a single housing complex for families, Waterside Court, in an unincorporated area in northwest Harris County, [3] in the SH249/1960 area. [4] It has 118 housing units. Residents of this property are in the Aldine Independent School District, [3] and are zoned to Keeble Early Childhood/Prekindergarten/Kindergarten (EC/PK/KG) School, [5] Thomas Gray Elementary School, [6] Stovall Middle School, [7] Aldine 9th Grade School, [8] and Aldine High School. [9]

Aldine Independent School District school district in Houston, Texas, United States

The Aldine Independent School District is a public school district based in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. It serves portions of Houston and unincorporated Harris County. Aldine ISD serves the communities of Aldine, most of Greenspoint, most of East Aldine, and portions of Airline, Acres Homes, Kinwood, Bordersville, and Inwood Forest. The district is part of the taxation base for the Lone Star College System. As of August 2014, Dr. Wanda Bamberg serves as superintendent of schools.

Aldine High School Public school in Houston, Texas, United States

Aldine Senior High School is a public high school located in the Greenspoint district of northern Houston, Texas, United States. It is part of the Aldine Independent School District. The senior high school campus serves grades 10 through 12. The separate Aldine Ninth Grade School hosts students in grade 9.

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References

  1. "Contact Us". Harris County Housing Authority. Retrieved 2019-01-01. 8933 Interchange Drive, Houston TX 77054
  2. Zaveri, Mihir (2017-04-28). "Harris County agency freezes issuance of new housing vouchers". Houston Chronicle . Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Our Properties." Harris County Housing Authority. Retrieved on January 1, 2019. "Waterside Court Address: 503 West Road, Houston, TX 77038"
  4. 1 2 3 4 Hill, Glynn A. (2017-06-27). "Harris County Housing Authority set to open senior facility in Tomball". The Potpourri (Tomball Edition) at the Houston Chronicle . Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  5. "Keeble EC/PK/KG." Aldine Independent School District. Retrieved on January 1, 2019.
  6. "Gray Elementary." Aldine Independent School District. Retrieved on January 1, 2019.
  7. "Stovall Middle School." Aldine Independent School District. Retrieved on January 1, 2019.
  8. "Aldine 9th Grade School." Aldine Independent School District. Retrieved on January 1, 2019.
  9. "Aldine High School." Aldine Independent School District. Retrieved on January 1, 2019.