In the middle of condos and trendy restaurants, the homes in Freedman's Town that used to be gated off now have broken windows and busted locks. Here's how it's impacting the historic neighborhood
Freedman's Town residents are facing a challenge in their neighborhood - what do they do with historic but abandoned homes that are attracting crime?Historic row houses in the Freedman's Town area have fallen into disrepair and brought dangerous crime to the neighborhood. Freedman's Town is a historic neighborhood where the first free Black men and women settled in Houston. Worn-down homes are the few original houses that remain from that period.
Trewick lives across the road from the old houses. She bought it in 2020 and redid her place, excited to bring new life to the block. "Developers just left. No one came back. No one did further development. They stopped maintaining the yards. They stopped securing the yards, and everything came to a standstill," Trewick said.
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