They’ve been saying this for the last 30 years at least.
And it appears to be finally happening. The prices on Zillow are way, way higher than they were 10-20 years ago.
It is another misleading and “oriented” article. What is the author is purposely omitting is the period after 1964, end of segregation. Wealthy African Americans left the 3rd and 5th ward and it has gone done since. Having horrible/dangerous buildings around and being replaced by new ones has nothing to do with threatening historic black neighborhoods. To think otherwise is highly hypocritical.
Segregation didn’t end in Houston in 1964. It lingered for decades.
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Look it up, the 3rd and 5th ward had a massive change when segregation was officially over. A large portion of home owners left for the suburbs.
I don’t have to look it up. I lived it.
Went to Spring Branch ISD elementary school in the 70s and didn’t have a single African American in my entire grade…only a couple of Hispanics as well. On my sports teams I was the minority because I had dark hair.
I remember one day there was a black couple that was sited looking at a house for sale a few doors down. That night there was an impromptu meeting of neighbors to discuss ‘what to do/what could be done’ about it. Never forget that. Even at 9 years old I saw it as wrong.
I moved to Kansas after 5th grade and it was more diverse.
Things are very, very different in Houston today though. The changes I’ve seen, when I think about that are really vast. They came so slowly that some don’t even recognize it.
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Wow, as a 90’s kid, thats a helluvan anecdote.
Also kinda crazy to think that Kansas seemed more diverse than the City of Houston, even at that time.
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It really was crazy. Now, Kansas did have it own issue with segregation (sales restrictions built into deed restrictions, red lining for loans etc) and the minority % where I lived was very small, but there just weren’t any minorities comparatively where I lived in Houston in the mid 70s.
I moved back about 10 years later…and the numbers were switched already and have been slowly moving towards more diversity since.
And UH…well we all know has been a very diverse for a very long time.
Heights is a bit of an odd duck when it comes to HOAs/Zoning. Certain portions of the heights and even specific blocks don’t fall under HOA but do fall under Historic District review if a home is to be remodeled or deemed too far gone to renovate. It’s a very rigorous process. One where I had to be present with my architect in front of a panel of people where one fellow was sporting a bow tie.
We bought a house in Woodland Heights that needed over half a million worth of work done, but the first 50% of the home had to keep its original look.
The siding alone was very unique to the 1900s era and was not easy to replicate. The bottom 1/4th of the house actually fanned out like a skirt making the reconstruction of the original look add about $100k just to that part of the renovation alone. The historic district was all over how that process was going to be performed successfully. We nearly didn’t get approved.
I can see why people want to rip and replace. So much more affordable and faster.
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Sporting a bow tie?
Was that PeeWee Herman ? 
Whites worried so much about blacks in the past they never saw the Hispanics move right past them 
they’ve taken over spring branch, HISD, parts of Fort Bend, Aldine, Katy, Galena Park, etc need I go on?
Difference is Hispanics don’t move once they settle in an area