South Dallas has suffered from decades of disinvestment, largely due to redlining and policies that denied the community access to capital. The construction of major highways further isolated the area from downtown, deepening economic stagnation. As…
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Located along the Mexico-United States border, “Las Colonias” emerged as areas where peri-urban subdivisions of substandard housings cluster. Occupied by poverty-stricken communities that are self-labeled as “the forgotten Americans”, these informal…
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