Mayor Sylvester Turner is seeking City Council support for a conservation district program he and city planners say could help lower-income neighborhoods preserve their character and fend off ...

Pictured is the Independence Heights Community Center in Houston. Houston's Independence Heights neighborhood, which more than a century ago became the first municipality in Texas to be incorporated ...

(TNS) — Houston City Council on Wednesday, April 5, approved a program that would allow the city to designate conservation districts in six neighborhoods, giving residents there a new lever to ...

After years of concerns over gentrification in the Houston metropolitan area, the city's Planning and Development Department introduced a proposed ordinance for creating conservation districts to the ...