Houston/Trinity Gardens is an

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History

The Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Interior Department, a program of the New Deal, developed Houston Gardens for the purpose of giving poor and landless people the opportunity to become homeowners. Houston Gardens was the only such community developed in

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.Longoria, Rafael and Susan Rogers.
The Rurban Horseshoe
" ''Cite 73''. The Rice Design Alliance, (Northern Hemisphere) Winter 2008. Page 20. Retrieved on February 24, 2010. The City of Houston annexed it in the 1940s.

Cityscape

Rafael Longoria and Susan Rogers of the Rice Design Alliance said that Houston Gardens could be described as "rurban," a word coined in 1918 which describes an area with a mix of urban and rural characteristics.Longoria, Rafael and Susan Rogers.
The Rurban Horseshoe
" ''Cite 73''. The Rice Design Alliance, (Northern Hemisphere) Winter 2008. Pages 18-19. Retrieved on February 24, 2010. The layout of Houston Gardens consists of a large oval parceled on its ends into plots of land shaped like pies. Longoria and Rogers said that "this unique plan is easy to spot on a Houston map."

Demographics

In 2015 the City of Houston Trinity/Houston Gardens Super Neighborhood had 15,798 residents. 67% were non-Hispanic black, 30% were Hispanic, 2% were non-Hispanic white, and 1% were non-Hispanic others. The percentage of non-Hispanic Asians was zero. In 2000 the super neighborhood had 18,054 residents. 81% were non-Hispanic black, 16% were Hispanic, 2% were non-Hispanic white, and 1% were non-Hispanic others. The percentage of non-Hispanic Asians was zero.

Government and infrastructure

Houston Gardens is in

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District B.

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(formerly Harris County Hospital District) designated Settegast Health Center for ZIP code 77028. The nearest public hospital is

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in northeast Houston.

Education

Houston Gardens is within the

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. Residents are zoned to Ernest McGowen Sr. Elementary School (previously Houston Gardens Elementary School), Key Middle School, and

Kashmere High School Kashmere High School is a secondary school in Houston, Texas that serves grades 9 through 12; it is a part of the Houston Independent School District. It is located in the Trinity Gardens neighborhood, and its namesake is the nearby Kashmere Gar ...

Parks and recreation

The City of Houston operates the Houston Gardens Park.Our Parks G-N
" City of Houston. Retrieved on February 25, 2010.

References

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