Houston Heights Then and Now

2009-03-26T07:44:00.000-07:00

SAVE Floyd Trailer Park on East 9th Street

Did you see the article on Affordable Housing on Wed in the Chronicle?
That park belongs to my Mother. She is 80 and on a respirator and has diabetes and the park is more an act of charity than an act of business. The renters do not pay on time, the City taxes the park more than the adjacent homes and yet she keeps it open. The Park represents what is very right and what is wrong with this country. I want to know what is the Obama Stimulus package going to do for the Floyd trailer park?

The City of Houston would have the park close down so that developers could buy the land for a song and put up another overpriced house for one rich family to live in. Meanwhile my mother is making it possible for 6 or 7 low income families to live there.

It isn't pretty, but it is the right thing to do. She should be able to make some money off the park to help pay for her medication. She should be able to leave the park to her family so that they can run it. If she dies the city will not allow the park to remain open. Please spread the word about the park and help me help my mother keep it open. Please tell a friend about this blog,

Affordable Housing In the Heights

2009-03-26T00:12:00.000-07:00

Floyd Trailer Park

The Chronicle had an article on Affordable Housing ,March 25 th page 1 section B. The little trailer park listed in the article belongs to my 80 year old mother. It was built by my Great Uncle and Paternal Grand Mother. My Maternal Grandmother lived in the park for many years prior to her death.

The article correctly states that the park may be closed at some point because the land the park sits on is too valuable to leave as a trailer park. My mother had sent out notices that the park would be closed and turned into a vacant lot, because the City of Houston taxes are so high on the land that the park can not make enough money to be kept open. My Mother does not want to close the park as many of her renters would have no place to live. The renters have increased their rent payments to keep the park open.

It is a shame that the park has such high taxes that it makes it difficult to maintain a place that has been a part of the Heights Community since 1972.

In the current economy people need places to live that they can afford. City Taxes should not become so onerous that places like the Floyd Trailer Park on 9th street near Studewood and 9 should have to close its door to Low Income Families

A Neighborhood In Transition

2008-03-07T23:24:00.000-08:00

The Houston Heights has changed quite a bit since it's inception in the