Colonia Housing and Infrastructure : Current Characteristics, Future Needs [Paperback]

Jorge Chapa (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1997

Colonia Housing and Infrastructure is a three-volume series, intended to provide a comprehensive understanding of the problems and issues facing colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. Colonias are private property located outside city limits, some in nearby suburbs and others extremely remote. As unincorporated areas, colonias do not have local city governments. For many years the problem of urban water resources and affordable housing for low income families living in colonias along the Texas-Mexico border have remained largely unresolved. The three volumes address two main pressing needs: gaining access to water and wastewater infrastructure programs, and addressing the massively substandard housing conditions on the U.S. side of the Texas-Mexico border. Together, the volumes contain extensive information detailing the position of colonia areas presented in more than 150 tables and figures of original data not available elsewhere. The first volume of the report defines colonias and describes such conditions as the lack of affordable housing that have led to their growth. Besides housing characteristics, it discusses the problems associated with the lack of basic water and wastewater provisions in colonia areas. The study also provides information, for comparison, about border regions without colonias, urban areas, rural areas, and the state as a whole. The report concludes with an in-depth look at state legislation, with particular emphasis on the 74th Texas Legislature in 1995. It also provides some discussion of the many programs affecting colonias. Counties profiled include Cameron, El Paso, Hidalgo and Webb.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Univ Texas at Austin, Office of Publications (1997)
• ISBN-10: 089940734X
• ISBN-13: 978-0899407340