East Houston Neighborhood Resilience Plan

Final | East Houston Neighborhood Resilience Plan

Both the comprehensive and the condensed East Houston Resilience Plan can be accessed via the link below.

• East Houston Neighborhood Resilience Plan
• East Houston Neighborhood Resilience Plan condensed

East Houston Ribbon Mural Cutting Ceremony

The first East Houston electrical box mural ceremony was held Saturday, October 1st, 11AM and was attended by several community members and civic leaders, including from the City of Houston's Planning and Development Department as well as representatives from Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's office.

Danny Asberry El, Solel President and mural Artist

Abnur Lyons addressing the crowd

City of Houston Planning and Development Department Director, Margaret Wallace-Brown

Pastor Lawrence Woods and Abnur Lyons

Federal Communications Commission | Affordable Connectivity Program

The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.

The benefit provides a discount of up to $30 per month toward internet service for eligible households and up to $75 per month for households on qualifying Tribal lands. Eligible households can also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from participating providers if they contribute more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase price.

Two Steps to enroll:

1. Go to AffordableConnectivity.gov to submit an application or print out a mail-in application.
2. Contact your preferred participating provider to select a plan and have the discount applied to your bill.

FEMA National Flood Hazard map

Resilience Districts

To help Houston neighborhoods recover from disasters and reduce the future impact of flooding in vulnerable and at-risk communities, the city of Houston will establish Neighborhood Resilience Plans for three Houston neighborhoods.

These plans will weave together climate adaptation and risk reduction, economic development, infrastructure modernization and social empowerment into one neighborhood strategy. The Neighborhood Resilience Plans will empower neighborhoods to direct future neighborhood-based investments in the most effective ways possible to help reduce flooding, address vulnerability to climate and multiple hazards, improve quality of life, and drive economic opportunity.

Three neighborhoods were chosen to participate in this process: East Houston, Edgebrook, and Independence Heights.

East Houston

The East Houston super neighborhood is located generally along E. Houston Road and the Union Pacific (UP) railroad (west) and the Greens Bayou (east), Beaumont Highway (south), and approximately Little York Rd. (north).

Located in District B, the East Houston neighborhood was selected due to the severity of flood damage from Hurricane Harvey and previous flooding events, vulnerability to climate and other multiple hazards, watershed location, and the presence of active and supportive civic organizations.

Land Use Map

Watershed Map

East Houston is located in the Greens Bayou watershed.