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Affordable Housing

Houston suffers from a severe lack of affordable housing. In Third Ward, the shortage has been singularly acute for several generations. Steady rises in property values over the past generation, with a particularly sharp spike that started when Emancipation Park’s historic redevelopment was announced, have created a new wave of displacement for legacy residents.

Project Row Houses enjoys a close relationship with two organizations working to provide affordable housing that preserves the character and architecture of the neighborhood and sustaining a diverse mix residents who contribute to a culturally and economically vibrant community.

Row House Community Development Corporation

At the turn of the century, Project Row Houses and Rice Building Workshop collaborated to create a series of row house-inspired duplexes on the blocks immediately north of the original PRH row houses to provide affordable housing for people in the community. Some of the first Row House CDC residents were participants in PRH’s Young Mothers Residential Program who, after graduating with their cohort, were ready to secure longer-term housing but wanted to remain within the PRH orbit.

In 2003, Row House CDC spun off as a sister corporation to PRH. Row House CDC’s mission is to develop housing for low-to-moderate income residents, public spaces, and facilities to preserve and protect the historic character of the Third Ward.

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PRH Preservation

In 2018, PRH had the opportunity to purchase and preserve a 1.4-acre piece of property at Webster, Hadley, Nagle, and Live Oak Streets, which consists of 21 wood-frame structures constructed between 1930 and 1950. A gift from the Kinder Foundation underwrote the acquisition.

PRH Preservation’s focus is on investing in the future of the historic neighborhood through intentional and strategic community development largely through preserving and rehabilitating older single-family housing stock. From time to time, PRH Preservation will build new structures as well, working as Row House CDC has to mirror the architectural vernacular of Third Ward and the shotgun house.

While PRH, Row House CDC, and PRH Preservation are distinct legal entities, they work closely together to support their residents and missions.

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