Acres Homes

ICE says Para Hernandez ran in front of the vehicle, though the Harris County District Attorney is investigating the agent for possible criminal charges.

A contractor is dead and another worker is injured after an electrocution incident in the Acres home area.

Houston police say it happened Wednesday afternoon on Observatory Street near Ferguson Way.

The workers were using a bucket truck when it came into contact with power lines.

So oddly enough, un- I know I'm familiar with Houston, there's always been like this North Side versus South Side situation, right? I'm one of the few people that originally being born in Third Ward, and my aunts and uncles primarily stayed in Third Ward.

My mom was from Third Ward, so spending time there, but I also grew up in Acres Home on the North side.

So I kinda grew up in two hoods simultaneously as I was growing up.

But one thing that was synonymous in both was, like, you could tell the community in, in both of them.

Like, Third Ward is a very, like, even to this day, it's a very close-knit community of the people that are originally from there, and the same with Acres Home.

So every time me seeing that, it inspires me now when I pour in the community, is to make sure that those communities still kinda have those kinda foundational strongholds, but it comes with support of businesses like mine to be able to make sure that places like the Star Hope and all these other places that support the community, have support from local businesses.

So, but that's what I saw when I was younger, you know, seeing, seeing the few business owners and few people that were big in the community, constantly always kinda giving back to the community.

Take, for example, this lot in Northwest Houston.

Located in a quiet residential neighborhood called Acre Homes, this traditionally would be a lot for a single-family home set a good bit off the streets, perhaps just like its neighbor across the alleyway.

But instead, a local design and planning firm had a different idea for the lot.

Rather than one lot, they split it into four.

A lot of them are in the neighborhood.

You have Ms. Anita over at Acres Homes.

You have Jessica Bayo over in Magnolia.

You have Eldridge Pugh in Sunnyside.

Riverside Terrace residents are now considering an alternative way to protect their homes, a conservation district.

In 2023, the City of Houston proposed conservation districts in six pilot neighborhoods, Independence Heights, Freedman's Town, Acres Homes, Magnolia Park, Manchester, Pleasantville, and Piney Point.

Under a conservation district, residents can choose what to regulate, such as minimum lot size, setbacks, building heights, the design of driveways, architectural styles, and rules for off-street parking.

The districts can be implemented if 51% of the property owners approve.

So it just completely changed everything.

So when I hear people say and it's funny, I'll talk to people because that that one room home is located in Acres Homes.

Shout out to Echo Pones.

But when I hear people say, I've had some clients that say, would you live there? And I just pull up a chair and I say, honey, let me tell you, absolutely I would.