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    Trumped-Up Incentives

    Mar 08, 2019 2 minutes
    —JUSTIN MILLER

    NCE A CROWN JEWEL OF BLACK HOUSTON, THE THIRD Ward is no longer affordable for many longtime homeowners and tenants. High-end townhomes have subsumed many parts of the historically African-American neighborhood just east of downtown. From 2000 to 2013, median home values here soared 176 percent, while the African-American share of the

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