Download or read book The Implementation of Infrastructure in Texas Colonias written by Nicole Carter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subsidies for Public Services at an International Border written by Nicole Carter and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico written by Peter M. Ward and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today in Texas, over 1500 colonias in the counties along the Mexican border are home to some 400,000 people. Often lacking basic services, such as electricity, water and sewerage, fire protection, policing, schools, and health care, these "irregular" subdivisions offer the only low-cost housing available to the mostly Hispanic working poor. This book presents the results of a major study of colonias in three transborder metropolitan areas and uncovers the reasons why colonias are spreading so rapidly. Peter Ward compares Texas colonias with their Mexican counterparts, many of which have developed into fully integrated working-class urban communities. He describes how Mexican governments have worked with colonia residents to make physical improvements and upgrade services-a model that Texas policymakers can learn from, Ward asserts. Finally, he concludes with a hard-hitting checklist of public policy initiatives that need to be considered as colonia housing policy enters its second decade in Texas.
Download or read book Colonias in the Eyes of Texas written by Chelsea Lynnette Hanchett and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the passage of legislation to restrict colonias development in Texas. Colonias are rural subdivisions which lack infrastructure such as paved roads and water lines. Over twenty years has passed since the first policy was passed to end colonias development and improve conditions in existing ones. During this time, multiple definitions of what constitutes a colonia developed. In defining the colonia as a space lacking infrastructure, the State of Texas made colonias into a problem space that could be enumerated and fixed. After millions of dollars were spent to correct absent infrastructure and to prosecute colonias developers, colonias as defined solely by the infrastructure present should not exist. Yet they persist as spaces of inequality and poverty. Using research of government and legal documents and interviews with non-profit workers, government officials, and colonias residents, this thesis analyzes how three selected pieces of legislation have defined colonias space. I show how a focus on infrastructure has created an expectation that the problems of colonias can be solved through investment alone, rather than addressing the root causes behind colonias development, namely poverty and inequality. This research contributes to an understanding of the efficacy of anti-colonias policies, as follow-up studies to these policies and programs have never before been conducted. It also advances understanding of how state-driven development interventions can be viewed as spatial ontologies.
Download or read book Housing Production Infrastructure in the Colonias of Texas and Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Drop in the Bucket written by Richard E. Rapier and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1989, the United States Federal Government and the State of Texas have targeted water and wastewater infrastructure development spending in the colonias to improve access to safe, reliable and adequate water supplies and wastewater service. Prior to widespread installation of piped, treated water infrastructure, waterborne illnesses attained levels only seen in developing countries. Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been spent since 1989 on water and wastewater infrastructure improvements, roughly a quarter of colonias still lacked basic access to water and wastewater services. Previous research and assessments of where this government spending has been targeted have not evaluated all four largest funding sources together or demonstrated the impacts of water and wastewater infrastructure spending on either public health or the local economy. This report evaluates the first of these problems by analyzing government spending of these funding sources from 1996 to 2006 in Cameron, Hidalgo, and Starr counties. The report provides the history and context of the Texas colonia problem, discusses who provides water and wastewater services to the colonias, and describes the make-up of federal and state financial assistance to the colonias to develop their water and wastewater infrastructure. Conventional understandings of where government spending is going, for what, and to whom, are challenged by the data and analysis. Analysis results indicate greater spending on wastewater infrastructure improvements than water service in addition to greater allocation to municipal systems that extended service into colonia areas historically operated by water service corporations. Further research may build on this data as well as regional economic and epidemiological data to determine outcomes of the spending in quantitative terms using various impact assessment methodologies. This report concludes with a discussion of impact assessment.
Download or read book Colonia Housing and Infrastructure written by and published by Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policy driven Water Sector and Energy Dependencies in Texas Border Colonias written by Monica Estefania Guerra Uribe and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonias— a subset of peri-urban subdivisions located in the United States — often lack ease of access to critical infrastructure services, such as water, wastewater, or energy, consequentially cascading into public health challenges and reduced community well-being. This challenge has been tackled globally through differing policy approaches (dependent on location) in attempt to improve the access to such services and the built environment standards existing in these communities. One category of such policy efforts deemed relatively successful is “In-Place Upgrading”, requiring local participation of the community residents. In Texas colonias, a statewide law was enacted in 1995 to encourage in-place upgrading. This law, leveraging the prioritization of energy infrastructure in households above other infrastructure services, introduced a logical dependency into communities that required residents—prior to connecting to electricity or gas—to have their platted land registered with the city/county and then connected to adequate water and wastewater services. This study seeks to assess the relationship between built environment parameters associated with water and wastewater access, and thereby impacting energy access, approximately two decades after the law has been introduced, as well as the perceived burden and efficacy of this particular law on boarder colonia residents. Enabled by publically available data from the Attorney General of Texas Office and semi-structured interviews from state decision makers and promotoras (local community volunteers), hypothesis testing and qualitative methods are used to answer and understand the aforementioned objectives. Three counties—Hidalgo, El Paso, and Cameron—representing 1,297 colonias were used in this analysis. The results revealed that among 110 combinations of parameters exploring colonias access to services and built environment, only one associated pair—colonia incorporation into a city and the presence of a community water system—was present in all three counties. However, many other associated parameters were significance in only one county, indicating the heterogeneity present at the community level when evaluating parameters possibly influencing access to built environment services. Findings from this study suggest decision makers—in addition to those policies and laws in place— focus on localized county/city-level efforts tailored to the community to increase access and improve the built environment.
Download or read book Colonia Housing and Infrastructure Regulatory issues and policy analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Supply Needs of the Colonia in Texas written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book The Colonias Reader written by Angela J. Donelson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colonias of the U.S.–Mexico border form a loose network of more than 2,500 settlements, ranging in size from villages to cities, that are home to over a million people. While varying in size, all share common features: wrenching poverty, substandard housing, and public health issues approaching crisis levels. This book brings together scholars, professionals, and activists from a wide range of disciplines to examine the pressing issues of economic development, housing and community development, and public and environmental health in colonias of the four U.S.–Mexico border states. The Colonias Reader is the first book to present such a broad overview of these communities, offering a glimpse into life in the colonias and the circumstances that allow them to continue to exist—and even grow—in persistent poverty. The contributors document the depth of existing problems in each state and describe how government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and community activists have mobilized resources to overcome obstacles to progress. More than reporting problems and documenting programs, the book provides conceptual frameworks that tie poverty to institutional and class-based conflicts, and even challenges the very basis of colonia designations. Most of these contributions move beyond portraying border residents as hapless victims of discrimination and racism, showing instead their devotion to improving their own living conditions through grassroots organizing and community leadership. These contributions show that, despite varying degrees of success, all colonia residents aspire to a livable wage, safe and decent housing, and basic health care. The Colonias Reader showcases many situations in which these people have organized to fulfill these ambitions and provides new insight into life along the border.
Download or read book Water Supply Needs of the Colonia in Texas written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book Colonia Housing and Infrastructure Current characteristics and future needs written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self help housing and infrastructure in the colonias written by Susan Peoples Salomone and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing Production Infrastructure in the Colonias of Texas and Mexico written by Institute of Latin American Studies Mexican Center and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Progress Report written by Texas Colonias Sub-group and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Infrastructure written by Michael R. Penn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Infrastructure: An Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering breaks new ground in preparing civil and environmental engineers to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The authors use the infrastructure that is all around us to introduce students to civil and environmental engineering, demonstrating how all the parts of civil and environmental engineering are interrelated to help students see the "big picture" in the first or second year of the curriculum. Students learn not only the what of the infrastructure, but also the how and the why of the infrastructure. Readers learn the infrastructure is a system of interrelated physical components, and how those components affect, and are affected by, society, politics, economics, and the environment. Studying infrastructure allows educators and students to develop a valuable link between fundamental knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge, so students may translate their knowledge to new contexts. The authors' implementation of modern learning pedagogy (learning objectives, concrete examples and cases, and hundreds of photos and illustrations), and chapters that map well to the ABET accreditation requirements AND the ASCE Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge 2nd edition (with recommendations for using this text in a 1, 2, or 3 hour course) make this text a key part of any civil and/or environmental engineering curriculum.
