Yes I agree, but that model is not sustainable.
Suburbs ALWAYS decline in the long term.
What we view today as Katy, Woodlands, Sugarland, etc… → is what Greenspoint, Alief, Aldine, Sharpstown etc… used to be.
Eventually, Katy and others will start turning into declining suburbs because they get too dense.
I’m a millennial and I’m doing everything I can, but it goes deeper than that.
Look at the students cars on campus and you will see that many of us did not come from rich families.
As soon as we graduate, we still gotta take care of family, pay student loans, or have to move back where we came from.
I once went to an away game at a private college and those kids are driving better cars and having parents foot their tuition so they don’t have to worry about paying back student loans after they graduate.
We can call it Tilman making it up to Sampson for underpaying him greatly.
He’s been underpaid every single year he has been here. It’s still a joke that Holgorsen was making more money than him.
Correct me if I’m wrong - wasn’t the reason they went busts due to the oil busts back then?
Partly, yes, but that affected mostly Sharpstown as that was supposed to be an Oil enclave
If we have to pay NFL rates to get a QB, I’d rather move down to a real amateur college sport division.
They are build new million dollar homes in the 3rd Ward currently.
I know the 3rd Ward has resisted but gentrification will happen naturally.
As Americans, very few live in the same exact zip code for 3 or 4 generations.
That is where we are with 3rd ward residents. They TOO will move out for cheaper housing, less crime and better school districts whereas the 3rd Ward improves in those metrics because of their departure.
No lol…
The Third Ward has been historically black and high crime because of redlining, white flight and racism. The impact of those things resulted in generational setbacks of those residents
People in those neighborhoods were trapped there because white neighborhoods at the time of sprawl didn’t want black people in their neighborhoods, and they will likely be forced out and into other bad areas
That being said, yes, Third Ward has been resisting gentrification the most out of all the historically poor neighborhoods in the inner loop such as Heights, Midtown, Washington, and Eado.
We do what? Fill our stadium? We can’t even get 30k to a sure win against a cross town rival. We’re half full playing out of one of the smallest stadiums in the P4 with tickets that are dirt cheap. Let’s get that corrected and then maybe business men around the city will think our program is worth investing in.
Unquestionably. But he wouldn’t be here if not for Fertitta.
No. We need Tilman because we don’t do any of those things you just said. We don’t have the fanbase right now which is why we need Tilman. That is my point.
My, “but we do” remark was when you said we wouldn’t need one guy to foot the bill. But we do need him to. Because are fan base isn’t there right now.
Yes, and with EACH passing generation, a larger number move out and the area becomes more diverse.
This is not a new phenomenon. It’s happened in every single ethnic enclave in every major US city… for the last 150+ years.
The Irish no longer live in the 5 Points, in Manhattan- they moved out.
Same with the Italians in every single Little Italy, in major cities.
Why wouldn’t the African Americans better themselves with each passing generation and find better living conditions?
Those once ‘racist’ housing laws have been removed. Many successful African Americans are living, and thriving, in the suburbs now
If by we, and ourselves, you mean the administration at UH, then you are spot on.
Au contraire. UH has fumbled for who knows how long and conference affiliation is just an excuse.
The administration, chancellors, school presidents, coaches, and athletes all come and go.
It’s us as in the fans and graduates that need to look in the mirror.
We have outlasted so many head coaches, ADs, etc. that the issues still remain to this day.
I’m not arguing that gentrification isn’t happening or shouldn’t happen.
I think gentrification in the Third Ward is inevitable. That real estate and location is way too prime for it not to happen.
My point is that when people “better” themselves, they usually move to other areas by their own grace.
Black residents in a historically low income area like Third Ward are there because of systemic racism along with the long term after affects of systemic racism. They didn’t have a choice where to live, and so they were forced into this portion of the city by factors outside their own control.
And now that wealthier (and white) people want to start living in urban cores again, these historical residents are being displaced outside their own will, even if they wanted to stay there, they simply can’t afford it anymore.
Do I think gentrification of the Third Ward is good for UH? Yes. I do.
Face it, we cannot compete in the “money game.” Not in football anyway. We will never have the resources that Big 10 and SEC schools do.
We might be able to win a 16-team Big 12 once or twice per generation and compete in the expanded playoffs. But the Round of 8 is our ceiling on our best year.
The game is now rigged in favor of the UTs of the world. It sucks.
Basketball is our only hope for a national title.
Come on…there is absolutely nothing today, in 2024, stopping an African American family from moving into a better neighborhood/ better school district to better their lives.
You view it as being “pushed out”, i view it as an opportunity to sell high and buy low in a better area.
And my family was Gentrified out of those tenement apartment death traps in the Little Italy, Manhattan and Bronx. Not one person in my family felt we were "pushed " to live in better neighborhoods on Long Island.
So…the African Americans can find better living opportunity any time they want.
They are welcome in the Houston suburbs…I grew up in the Houston suburbs…they are very diverse.
$$$… but then again you could say about any family, regardless of race
Jesus dude
They are being pushed out from a neighborhood that they most likely lived all their lives, via property taxes that increase.
That means that those people will be forced into suburbs. That means they have to find new homes, new jobs, in areas that largely reject them still to this day.
If you notice, most of the “good schools” in the greater Houston area including its exurbs contain a very low amount of black kids, and the districts that do contain an increasing amount of black kids are considered to be districts in decline
Be real dude.
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