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Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village

January 01, 1970

Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village, formerly Allen Parkway Village (APV) and San Felipe Courts Apartments, is a public housing complex in the northern Fourth Ward, Houston, Texas,[1] operated by the Houston Housing Authority (HHA). Allen Parkway Village occupies 37 acres (15 ha) of land.[2]

Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village

At one time the headquarters of the HHA, previously known as the Housing Authority of the City of Houston (HACH), were at APV.[3] In 1988 it was the largest HACH facility.[4]

History edit

Opening and initial history edit

The construction of Allen Parkway Village, originally known as San Felipe Courts Apartments,[5] was completed in 1944,[6] with 963 units built.[7] A group of architectural firms with MacKie & Kamrath being the leader completed the facility.[6] As part of the development process, about 900 bodies were moved from the former New City Cemetery, a cemetery that was operated beginning in 1880 and ending in 1920, to Brookside Cemetery. However the effort missed around 355 bodies.[8]

Allen Parkway Village, which was built over the site of a former red light district, "The Reservation",[5] was designed to beautify Allen Parkway.[6] It was originally reserved for White people. Mike Snyder of the Houston Chronicle said that local historians indicated the development of the complex as a factor that lead to the decline of the Fourth Ward.[1] It was renamed "Allen Parkway Village" in 1964.[9] In 1968 African-Americans were permitted to move to APV.[5]

Circa 1976 most of the residents were African-Americans who wished to be near Downtown Houston and the Fourth Ward, and the occupancy rate was over 95%. Brian Wallstin of the Houston Press stated that at the time APV "was considered the best of the city's public housing complexes."[10]

In December 1984 about 2,000 people lived in APV, which was almost 50% of the total number of people residing in HACH properties.[11]

Demolition struggle edit

Starting in the 1970s the HACH wanted to demolish Allen Parkway Village while residents fought to have the entire structure remain.[12] In 1977 Robert Wood, the director of the Housing Authority of the City of Houston, wrote a letter proposing that Allen Parkway Village be demolished. In 1979 the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) authorized $10 million for modernizing APV,[13] but HACH only spent below $50,000 for this purpose,[14] and instead left around 500 units vacant.[10] The city officials had proposed building other low income housing elsewhere in the city. Public housing officials and private developers were in favor of demolishing the housing, while preservationists and residents were in favor of keeping the housing.[2] The private developers hoped to have higher income housing and commercial use.[4] The HACH, during this time, moved its headquarters into a building in River Oaks. Jim Sherman of the Houston Press stated in 1993 that in addition to the practical desire for redevelopment, much of the impetus was a determination of the politically connected to get the complex demolished after initially running into roadblocks against the goal. Sherman stated that the population loss and decline of APV were "by design".[3]

HACH officials asserted that the agency filed the first demolition permit in 1984. According to press reports, HACH had sent secret requests for razing the complex in 1977, which employees of the federal housing authority at the time disapproved of, and in 1981.[11]

Beginning in the 1970s thousands of Vietnamese refugees moved to Allen Parkway Village,[15] along with those from Cambodia.[10] HACH had deliberately placed them there, according to Wallstin, "in an attempt to pave the political pitfalls to its then-secret demolition plans".[10] A report prepared for HACH stated the agency's belief that the Asians would, compared to other racial groups, not put up as much resistance to agency moves to eliminate APV.[16] The existence of the report was later revealed by lawyers representing ethnic Vietnamese clients.[17] At APV Asians encountered crime and tensions with existing black residents.[18] Some families doubled up, sharing the same apartment units.[15]

The Handbook of Texas said "In the 1980s and 1990s the continued future of the Fourth Ward as a black community came under serious attack" due to plans to demolish Allen Parkway Village and replace the complex with housing for high income people and office buildings. In a Handbook of Texas entry the citizen opposition and "more importantly" the mid-1980s economic decline delayed those plans. The Handbook of Texas said that the neglect of the housing units and the resulting disappearance of those units, the reluctance of investors to invest capital into the Fourth Ward, and "future of the neighborhood" all "undermined" "[t]he viability" of the Fourth Ward.[19] The HACH made a unanimous vote to demolish Allen Parkway Village.[2] The official demolition permission application and sale request were made in 1984 and 1985, respectively.[11]

However activist Lenwood Johnson began campaigning against the demolition of the complex.[10] Former HACH spokesperson Esther De Ipolyi stated that the agency employees were surprised at the level of resistance they received towards their plans, and that such resistance was unprecedented in Houston. She described Johnson as "one lone ranger who essentially stopped the process."[10] University of Houston sociology professor Bill Simon described Johnson as "The only person among the residents who had any legal standing" to bring a challenge to its demolition.[20] Johnson went into conflict with two HACH executive directors, at first an African-American named Earl Phillips,[10] and later with Joy Fitzgerald. Local filmmaker Christine Felton stated that she "was surprised at how personal the fight between Lenwood and Joy became."[20]

Johnson first opposed an attempted eviction of 125 Southeast Asian families, who he said had been extorted by HACH employees, until 1986. HACH had filed another demolition petition in 1984, but Houston City Council withdrew it in 1989. Johnson pressured Mickey Leland, a Congressperson, into supporting an amendment that would prohibit HACH from funding APV's demolition with money from the federal government; Johnson stated that Leland initially balked at the request.[10] In 1988 Allen Parkway Village was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[9] Johnson personally went to Washington, DC and met Henry Cisneros, the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).[21] For a period Simon advised Johnson; Simon stated that Johnson "after a while was constantly tripping over his own ego."[20] Wallstin stated that Johnson eventually became consumed with the fight as he wished to maintain his role as the savior of APV rather than maintaining residences for the disadvantaged, and that Johnson, "as even his supporters acknowledged, made the mistake of buying into his own shtick."[20] By 1989 there were 130 families residing in the complex, a decline from the previous amount. Marvin Krislov of the Yale Law Journal noted that HUD had not at the time certified the removal of the housing property, but the population had declined anyway, reflecting how HACH was deliberately causing APV to deteriorate.[11]

In August 1990 Felton began recording footage of events related to APV, including protests and meetings that were open to the public and conducted behind closed doors. She initially worked with Johnson, but the two had a conflict as Felton believed his group was trying to get creative control of her film.[20] Simon stated that Felton's footage had major historical significance as she had recorded exclusive footage of key events, such as the meeting between Johnson and Cisneros.[20]

The legal campaign reached the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.[2] In 1995 Allen Parkway Village's housing made up 24% of the public housing units in Houston. At the time, 21 of its apartments were occupied.[6]

Cisneros was no longer the head of the oversight community of the HUD after the 1994 United States midterm elections, as people of the Republican Party occupied most of the Congressional seats from that point forward. This contributed to the settlement that resolved the Allen Parkway Village issue, at the cost of removing many of its units.[20]

Resolution and aftermath edit

In 1996 Cisneros signed an agreement to allow the City of Houston to demolish 677 of the community's 963 units as long as the site was still used for low income housing.[12] The older units were brick buildings, while David Ellison of the Houston Chronicle said that the newer units "look like any other apartments in Houston".[2] The federal government spent $57 million in redeveloping Allen Parkway Village and improving the surrounding area.[2] The remaining old units were placed on the National Register of Historic Places and were not demolished.[13]

In 1998 the gravesites that were not discovered in the 1940s grave location were uncovered by excavation movements to create utility services for the new APV development. The HHA did not initially announce this to the public, and spokesperson Robert Reyna stated this was to keep the dignity of the deceased. After the discovery was disclosed, the HHA wished to move these bodies to Brookside while some area residents argued that the bodies should remain where they were. A prayer service for the bodies, reburied in the northeast corner of the facility, was held on March 26, 2001; the HHA moved them to another location to satisfy the demands of those residents wishing for the bodies to remain in their resting places while ensuring the APV project could be completed.[8]

By 1999 remaining portions of APV were renamed to The Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway and had around 500 residential units. 16 residential buildings, a community center building, and an administrative building were retained.[22] Of the 500 units 280 were existing units and 220 were newly constructed with $30 million federal funding. The first new group of tenants consisted of 156 low income elderly individuals.[12] Allen Parkway Village lost none of its land area. David Ellison of the Houston Chronicle argued that the quest to preserve Allen Parkway Village was "quixotic."[2] Johnson said "The myth is that the people of Allen Parkway Village lost after a 15- or 20-year fight. That's not true. Would you believe they didn't get one inch of Allen Parkway soil?"[2] In 2000 the Houston Press ranked the opening of the new units as the "Best Event That No One Thought Would Ever Happen."[23]

In November 2010 members of the Gregory Library Watch, a group started in January 2010, accused the Gregory African-American Library in the Fourth Ward of deliberately not archiving certain historical documents. Johnson, who became a member of the organization, stated that the library refused to archive documents about an effort to prevent the closing of the Allen Parkway Village, and Timothy O'Brien, another member of the group, said "They don't want to hear the low-income black history because it indicts the African-American politicians."[24] O'Brien had written articles about the APV redevelopment controversy while he was a master's degree student.[25]

Education edit

Area students attend schools in the Houston Independent School District,[26] including Gregory-Lincoln Education Center for K-8[27][28] and Heights High School (formerly Reagan High School).[29]

Prior to 1980,[30] Gregory Elementary School (now used as the African American Library at the Gregory School) was a K-8 school separate from what was initially Lincoln Junior-Senior High School, and children living in the complex attended both schools.[31] The latter was later simply Lincoln Junior High School.[30] In a period before 1980, there were approximately 175 APV residents who were students at Lincoln and about 512 who were students at Gregory; about 37.6% of the Gregory School students were APV residents. Around that period some residents attended Reagan, Yates, and other high schools.[31] Gregory School was consolidated into Lincoln School in 1980.[30]

Healthcare edit

The Harris County Hospital District Jeff Davis Hospital was adjacent to APV.[31] As of 2019 Ben Taub Hospital in the Texas Medical Center is the nearest public hospital.

References edit

  • Krislov, Marvin (July 1988). "Ensuring Tenant Consultation before Public Housing Is Demolished or Sold". The Yale Law Journal. 97 (8, Symposium: The Republican Civic Tradition). The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc.: 1745–1764. doi:10.2307/796552. JSTOR 796552.

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b Snyder, Mike. "With its rich history, Fourth Ward is strong in symbolism."[dead link] Houston Chronicle. Sunday January 9, 2000. A24. Retrieved on July 28, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Ellison, David. "." Houston Chronicle. Sunday January 21, 2007. B1 MetFront. Retrieved on July 25, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Sherman, Jim (1993-12-09). "Was This Disaster Necessary?". Houston Press. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  4. ^ a b Krislov, p. 1755 (PDF p. 12/21).
  5. ^ a b c Lomax, John Nova (2012-07-03). "Lenwood Johnson: Trying to Save a Last Shred of Freedmen's Town History". Houston Press. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  6. ^ a b c d Lang, Curtis. "A Depleted Legacy Public Housing in Houston." () Cite. 1995, Issue 33. p. 10. Retrieved on July 28, 2012.
  7. ^ "Study Area 11 2010-05-30 at the Wayback Machine." City of Houston. Accessed October 21, 2008.
  8. ^ a b "Burial of uncovered remains begins". Houston Chronicle. 2001-05-10. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  9. ^ a b Lang, Curtis. "A Depleted Legacy Public Housing in Houston." () Cite. 1995, Issue 33. p. 11. Retrieved on July 28, 2012.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h Wallstin, Brian (1995-12-24). "Lenwood Johnson's Last Stand". Houston Press. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  11. ^ a b c d Krislov, p. 1756 (PDF p. 13/21).
  12. ^ a b c "Best Event That No One Thought Would Ever Happen." Houston Press. Accessed October 23, 2008
  13. ^ a b O’Brien, Timothy. "Organizing lessons from Allen Parkway Village." San Francisco Bay View. September 17, 2009. Retrieved on July 3, 2011.
  14. ^ Krislov, p. 1755-1756 (PDF p. 12-13/21).
  15. ^ a b Swartz, Mimi. "Murder in the Melting Pot." Texas Monthly. Emmis Communications, December 1991. Vol. 19, No. 12. ISSN 0148-7736. START: p. 142. CITED: p. 170.
  16. ^ King, Wayne (1985-03-19). "HOUSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY ACCUSED OF RACIAL STEERING". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  17. ^ King, Wayne (1985-03-20). "HOUSTON AIDE ACCUSED OF ILL-TREATING VIETNAMESE". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  18. ^ Swartz, Mimi. "Murder in the Melting Pot." Texas Monthly. Emmis Communications, December 1991. Vol. 19, No. 12. ISSN 0148-7736. START: p. 142. CITED: p. 172.
  19. ^ Wintz, Cary. “Fourth Ward, Houston.” The Handbook of Texas Online. 26 Sept 2008. < http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hpf01>
  20. ^ a b c d e f g Wallstin, Brian. "Allen Parkway Village: The Movie." Houston Press. Thursday May 6, 1999. Retrieved on January 2, 2019.
  21. ^ Snyder, Mike; John D. Harden (2018-05-16). "Lenwood Johnson, public housing activist, dies at 75". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  22. ^ Cook, Lynn J. "New project bringing residents back to Allen Parkway Village." Houston Business Journal. Friday August 13, 1999. 1.
  23. ^ "Opening of the Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway." Houston Press. Retrieved on October 21, 2012.
  24. ^ Adi, Hiba. "Critics accuse library of selective history." Houston Chronicle. November 13, 2010. Retrieved on December 4, 2010.
  25. ^ Lomax, John Nova (2009-12-09). "O'Brien's Song". Houston Press. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  26. ^ "Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village." Houston Housing Authority. Retrieved on January 2, 2018. "1600 Allen Parkway Houston, Texas 77019"
  27. ^ "Gregory Lincoln Elementary Attendance Boundary 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on January 2, 2019.
  28. ^ "Gregory Lincoln Middle Attendance Boundary 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on January 2, 2018.
  29. ^ "Heights High School Attendance Boundary" (PDF). Houston Independent School District. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  30. ^ a b c Public housing needs and conditions in Houston: hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, Part 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1986. p. 511. The Houston Independent School District (HISD) operated two schools in the Fourth Ward in the 1979-1980 school year: Gregory Elementary and Lincoln Junior High School. HISD closed Gregory Elementary School at the end of the 1979-80[...] Also seen in search result
  31. ^ a b c Public housing needs and conditions in Houston: hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, Part 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1986. p. 274. The resident children of APV attend the Gregory Elementary School or the Lincoln Junior-Senior High School. The Gregory School accommodates from kindergarten through the eighth grade. Approximately 512 students within this school[...] - The page is from p. 212 a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report embedded in the record.

Further reading edit

  • "Rehabilitation of Allen Parkway Village, Houston, TX : field hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, Houston, Texas, Tuesday, December 14, 1993".
  • Bivins, Ralph. "Developers sketch out plans for Fourth Ward."[dead link] Houston Chronicle. Saturday April 14, 1990. Business 1. This article is available from NewsBank, accessible with a Houston Public Library card.
  • Flournoy (1985-06-10). "Houston Project: Indochinese Makeup of Complex May Make Its Destruction Easier". The Dallas Morning News.
  • "Once-Proud Project Faces Demolition: Razing Appears a Certainty for Low-Rent Housing". Houston Chronicle. 1988-02-04. - Available at the Houston Public Library newspaper database 2021-06-27 at the Wayback Machine, accessible with a library card and password.
  • APV Story - World War 3 Illustrated #29 (Land) on the history of APV and its struggle up to year 2000.

External links edit

  • Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village
  • "." KHOU-TV. July 25, 2010. Updated on July 26, 2010.
  • "Allen Parkway Village." Gregory Library Watch.

January 01, 1970
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Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village formerly Allen Parkway Village APV and San Felipe Courts Apartments is a public housing complex in the northern Fourth Ward Houston Texas 1 operated by the Houston Housing Authority HHA Allen Parkway Village occupies 37 acres 15 ha of land 2 Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village At one time the headquarters of the HHA previously known as the Housing Authority of the City of Houston HACH were at APV 3 In 1988 it was the largest HACH facility 4 Contents 1 History 1 1 Opening and initial history 1 2 Demolition struggle 1 3 Resolution and aftermath 2 Education 3 Healthcare 4 References 4 1 Notes 5 Further reading 6 External linksHistory editOpening and initial history edit The construction of Allen Parkway Village originally known as San Felipe Courts Apartments 5 was completed in 1944 6 with 963 units built 7 A group of architectural firms with MacKie amp Kamrath being the leader completed the facility 6 As part of the development process about 900 bodies were moved from the former New City Cemetery a cemetery that was operated beginning in 1880 and ending in 1920 to Brookside Cemetery However the effort missed around 355 bodies 8 Allen Parkway Village which was built over the site of a former red light district The Reservation 5 was designed to beautify Allen Parkway 6 It was originally reserved for White people Mike Snyder of the Houston Chronicle said that local historians indicated the development of the complex as a factor that lead to the decline of the Fourth Ward 1 It was renamed Allen Parkway Village in 1964 9 In 1968 African Americans were permitted to move to APV 5 Circa 1976 most of the residents were African Americans who wished to be near Downtown Houston and the Fourth Ward and the occupancy rate was over 95 Brian Wallstin of the Houston Press stated that at the time APV was considered the best of the city s public housing complexes 10 In December 1984 about 2 000 people lived in APV which was almost 50 of the total number of people residing in HACH properties 11 Demolition struggle edit Starting in the 1970s the HACH wanted to demolish Allen Parkway Village while residents fought to have the entire structure remain 12 In 1977 Robert Wood the director of the Housing Authority of the City of Houston wrote a letter proposing that Allen Parkway Village be demolished In 1979 the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD authorized 10 million for modernizing APV 13 but HACH only spent below 50 000 for this purpose 14 and instead left around 500 units vacant 10 The city officials had proposed building other low income housing elsewhere in the city Public housing officials and private developers were in favor of demolishing the housing while preservationists and residents were in favor of keeping the housing 2 The private developers hoped to have higher income housing and commercial use 4 The HACH during this time moved its headquarters into a building in River Oaks Jim Sherman of the Houston Press stated in 1993 that in addition to the practical desire for redevelopment much of the impetus was a determination of the politically connected to get the complex demolished after initially running into roadblocks against the goal Sherman stated that the population loss and decline of APV were by design 3 HACH officials asserted that the agency filed the first demolition permit in 1984 According to press reports HACH had sent secret requests for razing the complex in 1977 which employees of the federal housing authority at the time disapproved of and in 1981 11 Beginning in the 1970s thousands of Vietnamese refugees moved to Allen Parkway Village 15 along with those from Cambodia 10 HACH had deliberately placed them there according to Wallstin in an attempt to pave the political pitfalls to its then secret demolition plans 10 A report prepared for HACH stated the agency s belief that the Asians would compared to other racial groups not put up as much resistance to agency moves to eliminate APV 16 The existence of the report was later revealed by lawyers representing ethnic Vietnamese clients 17 At APV Asians encountered crime and tensions with existing black residents 18 Some families doubled up sharing the same apartment units 15 The Handbook of Texas said In the 1980s and 1990s the continued future of the Fourth Ward as a black community came under serious attack due to plans to demolish Allen Parkway Village and replace the complex with housing for high income people and office buildings In a Handbook of Texas entry the citizen opposition and more importantly the mid 1980s economic decline delayed those plans The Handbook of Texas said that the neglect of the housing units and the resulting disappearance of those units the reluctance of investors to invest capital into the Fourth Ward and future of the neighborhood all undermined t he viability of the Fourth Ward 19 The HACH made a unanimous vote to demolish Allen Parkway Village 2 The official demolition permission application and sale request were made in 1984 and 1985 respectively 11 However activist Lenwood Johnson began campaigning against the demolition of the complex 10 Former HACH spokesperson Esther De Ipolyi stated that the agency employees were surprised at the level of resistance they received towards their plans and that such resistance was unprecedented in Houston She described Johnson as one lone ranger who essentially stopped the process 10 University of Houston sociology professor Bill Simon described Johnson as The only person among the residents who had any legal standing to bring a challenge to its demolition 20 Johnson went into conflict with two HACH executive directors at first an African American named Earl Phillips 10 and later with Joy Fitzgerald Local filmmaker Christine Felton stated that she was surprised at how personal the fight between Lenwood and Joy became 20 Johnson first opposed an attempted eviction of 125 Southeast Asian families who he said had been extorted by HACH employees until 1986 HACH had filed another demolition petition in 1984 but Houston City Council withdrew it in 1989 Johnson pressured Mickey Leland a Congressperson into supporting an amendment that would prohibit HACH from funding APV s demolition with money from the federal government Johnson stated that Leland initially balked at the request 10 In 1988 Allen Parkway Village was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 9 Johnson personally went to Washington DC and met Henry Cisneros the head of the U S Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD 21 For a period Simon advised Johnson Simon stated that Johnson after a while was constantly tripping over his own ego 20 Wallstin stated that Johnson eventually became consumed with the fight as he wished to maintain his role as the savior of APV rather than maintaining residences for the disadvantaged and that Johnson as even his supporters acknowledged made the mistake of buying into his own shtick 20 By 1989 there were 130 families residing in the complex a decline from the previous amount Marvin Krislov of the Yale Law Journal noted that HUD had not at the time certified the removal of the housing property but the population had declined anyway reflecting how HACH was deliberately causing APV to deteriorate 11 In August 1990 Felton began recording footage of events related to APV including protests and meetings that were open to the public and conducted behind closed doors She initially worked with Johnson but the two had a conflict as Felton believed his group was trying to get creative control of her film 20 Simon stated that Felton s footage had major historical significance as she had recorded exclusive footage of key events such as the meeting between Johnson and Cisneros 20 The legal campaign reached the 5th U S Circuit Court of Appeals 2 In 1995 Allen Parkway Village s housing made up 24 of the public housing units in Houston At the time 21 of its apartments were occupied 6 Cisneros was no longer the head of the oversight community of the HUD after the 1994 United States midterm elections as people of the Republican Party occupied most of the Congressional seats from that point forward This contributed to the settlement that resolved the Allen Parkway Village issue at the cost of removing many of its units 20 Resolution and aftermath edit In 1996 Cisneros signed an agreement to allow the City of Houston to demolish 677 of the community s 963 units as long as the site was still used for low income housing 12 The older units were brick buildings while David Ellison of the Houston Chronicle said that the newer units look like any other apartments in Houston 2 The federal government spent 57 million in redeveloping Allen Parkway Village and improving the surrounding area 2 The remaining old units were placed on the National Register of Historic Places and were not demolished 13 In 1998 the gravesites that were not discovered in the 1940s grave location were uncovered by excavation movements to create utility services for the new APV development The HHA did not initially announce this to the public and spokesperson Robert Reyna stated this was to keep the dignity of the deceased After the discovery was disclosed the HHA wished to move these bodies to Brookside while some area residents argued that the bodies should remain where they were A prayer service for the bodies reburied in the northeast corner of the facility was held on March 26 2001 the HHA moved them to another location to satisfy the demands of those residents wishing for the bodies to remain in their resting places while ensuring the APV project could be completed 8 By 1999 remaining portions of APV were renamed to The Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway and had around 500 residential units 16 residential buildings a community center building and an administrative building were retained 22 Of the 500 units 280 were existing units and 220 were newly constructed with 30 million federal funding The first new group of tenants consisted of 156 low income elderly individuals 12 Allen Parkway Village lost none of its land area David Ellison of the Houston Chronicle argued that the quest to preserve Allen Parkway Village was quixotic 2 Johnson said The myth is that the people of Allen Parkway Village lost after a 15 or 20 year fight That s not true Would you believe they didn t get one inch of Allen Parkway soil 2 In 2000 the Houston Press ranked the opening of the new units as the Best Event That No One Thought Would Ever Happen 23 In November 2010 members of the Gregory Library Watch a group started in January 2010 accused the Gregory African American Library in the Fourth Ward of deliberately not archiving certain historical documents Johnson who became a member of the organization stated that the library refused to archive documents about an effort to prevent the closing of the Allen Parkway Village and Timothy O Brien another member of the group said They don t want to hear the low income black history because it indicts the African American politicians 24 O Brien had written articles about the APV redevelopment controversy while he was a master s degree student 25 Education editArea students attend schools in the Houston Independent School District 26 including Gregory Lincoln Education Center for K 8 27 28 and Heights High School formerly Reagan High School 29 Prior to 1980 30 Gregory Elementary School now used as the African American Library at the Gregory School was a K 8 school separate from what was initially Lincoln Junior Senior High School and children living in the complex attended both schools 31 The latter was later simply Lincoln Junior High School 30 In a period before 1980 there were approximately 175 APV residents who were students at Lincoln and about 512 who were students at Gregory about 37 6 of the Gregory School students were APV residents Around that period some residents attended Reagan Yates and other high schools 31 Gregory School was consolidated into Lincoln School in 1980 30 Healthcare editThe Harris County Hospital District Jeff Davis Hospital was adjacent to APV 31 As of 2019 update Ben Taub Hospital in the Texas Medical Center is the nearest public hospital References editKrislov Marvin July 1988 Ensuring Tenant Consultation before Public Housing Is Demolished or Sold The Yale Law Journal 97 8 Symposium The Republican Civic Tradition The Yale Law Journal Company Inc 1745 1764 doi 10 2307 796552 JSTOR 796552 Notes edit a b Snyder Mike With its rich history Fourth Ward is strong in symbolism dead link Houston Chronicle Sunday January 9 2000 A24 Retrieved on July 28 2012 a b c d e f g h Ellison David A NEIGHBORHOOD IN FLUX Over the past decade Houston s historic Fourth Ward has undergone an uneasy transformation Now longtime residents and newcomers alike wonder what happens next The fight for the Fourth Houston Chronicle Sunday January 21 2007 B1 MetFront Retrieved on July 25 2012 a b Sherman Jim 1993 12 09 Was This Disaster Necessary Houston Press Retrieved 2019 01 02 a b Krislov p 1755 PDF p 12 21 a b c Lomax John Nova 2012 07 03 Lenwood Johnson Trying to Save a Last Shred of Freedmen s Town History Houston Press Retrieved 2019 01 04 a b c d Lang Curtis A Depleted Legacy Public Housing in Houston Archive Cite 1995 Issue 33 p 10 Retrieved on July 28 2012 Study Area 11 Archived 2010 05 30 at the Wayback Machine City of Houston Accessed October 21 2008 a b Burial of uncovered remains begins Houston Chronicle 2001 05 10 Retrieved 2019 01 02 a b Lang Curtis A Depleted Legacy Public Housing in Houston Archive Cite 1995 Issue 33 p 11 Retrieved on July 28 2012 a b c d e f g h Wallstin Brian 1995 12 24 Lenwood Johnson s Last Stand Houston Press Retrieved 2019 01 04 a b c d Krislov p 1756 PDF p 13 21 a b c Best Event That No One Thought Would Ever Happen Houston Press Accessed October 23 2008 a b O Brien Timothy Organizing lessons from Allen Parkway Village San Francisco Bay View September 17 2009 Retrieved on July 3 2011 Krislov p 1755 1756 PDF p 12 13 21 a b Swartz Mimi Murder in the Melting Pot Texas Monthly Emmis Communications December 1991 Vol 19 No 12 ISSN 0148 7736 START p 142 CITED p 170 King Wayne 1985 03 19 HOUSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY ACCUSED OF RACIAL STEERING The New York Times Retrieved 2019 08 28 King Wayne 1985 03 20 HOUSTON AIDE ACCUSED OF ILL TREATING VIETNAMESE The New York Times Retrieved 2019 08 28 Swartz Mimi Murder in the Melting Pot Texas Monthly Emmis Communications December 1991 Vol 19 No 12 ISSN 0148 7736 START p 142 CITED p 172 Wintz Cary Fourth Ward Houston The Handbook of Texas Online 26 Sept 2008 lt http www tshaonline org handbook online articles hpf01 gt a b c d e f g Wallstin Brian Allen Parkway Village The Movie Houston Press Thursday May 6 1999 Retrieved on January 2 2019 Snyder Mike John D Harden 2018 05 16 Lenwood Johnson public housing activist dies at 75 Houston Chronicle Retrieved 2019 01 02 Cook Lynn J New project bringing residents back to Allen Parkway Village Houston Business Journal Friday August 13 1999 1 Opening of the Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Houston Press Retrieved on October 21 2012 Adi Hiba Critics accuse library of selective history Houston Chronicle November 13 2010 Retrieved on December 4 2010 Lomax John Nova 2009 12 09 O Brien s Song Houston Press Retrieved 2019 07 10 Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village Houston Housing Authority Retrieved on January 2 2018 1600 Allen Parkway Houston Texas 77019 Gregory Lincoln Elementary Attendance Boundary Archived 2017 02 02 at the Wayback Machine Houston Independent School District Retrieved on January 2 2019 Gregory Lincoln Middle Attendance Boundary Archived 2017 02 02 at the Wayback Machine Houston Independent School District Retrieved on January 2 2018 Heights High School Attendance Boundary PDF Houston Independent School District Retrieved 2019 01 02 a b c Public housing needs and conditions in Houston hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking Finance and Urban Affairs House of Representatives Ninety ninth Congress first session Part 1 U S Government Printing Office 1986 p 511 The Houston Independent School District HISD operated two schools in the Fourth Ward in the 1979 1980 school year Gregory Elementary and Lincoln Junior High School HISD closed Gregory Elementary School at the end of the 1979 80 Also seen in search result a b c Public housing needs and conditions in Houston hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking Finance and Urban Affairs House of Representatives Ninety ninth Congress first session Part 1 U S Government Printing Office 1986 p 274 The resident children of APV attend the Gregory Elementary School or the Lincoln Junior Senior High School The Gregory School accommodates from kindergarten through the eighth grade Approximately 512 students within this school The page is from p 212 a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD report embedded in the record Further reading edit Rehabilitation of Allen Parkway Village Houston TX field hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking Finance and Urban Affairs House of Representatives One Hundred Third Congress first session Houston Texas Tuesday December 14 1993 Bivins Ralph Developers sketch out plans for Fourth Ward dead link Houston Chronicle Saturday April 14 1990 Business 1 This article is available from NewsBank accessible with a Houston Public Library card Flournoy 1985 06 10 Houston Project Indochinese Makeup of Complex May Make Its Destruction Easier The Dallas Morning News Once Proud Project Faces Demolition Razing Appears a Certainty for Low Rent Housing Houston Chronicle 1988 02 04 Available at the Houston Public Library newspaper database Archived 2021 06 27 at the Wayback Machine accessible with a library card and password APV Story World War 3 Illustrated 29 Land on the history of APV and its struggle up to year 2000 External links edit nbsp Texas portal Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village Allen Parkway Village residents blame city for constant mold KHOU TV July 25 2010 Updated on July 26 2010 Allen Parkway Village Gregory Library Watch Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village amp oldid 1182796447, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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