Edgebrook Neighborhood Resilience Plan

2023 LISC Small Grant Opportunity is Live!

Now entering its eight year, LISC Houston is excited to announce the launch of its Greater Opportunity (GO) Neighborhood Small Grants program on March 13, 2023! Through this initiative, 501c3 and 501c4 groups and organizations working with their community can submit project ideas between $500-$5,000 focused on community organizing, strengthening civic engagement, and addressing issues connected to Houston’s GO Neighborhoods five pillars.

Applications are due April 10, 2023 at noon online via LISConnect

Register Today for the Pre-Application Review & Grant Writing Workshop. You’ll learn best practices in grant writing, a review of the Small Grant Application questions, and a walk-through of the online grant application portal. The pre-application workshop is scheduled for March 21, 2023, 12 – 1:30 pm.

80% Draft | Edgebrook Neighborhood Resilience Plan

The Neighborhood Support Team (NST) and the City of Houston request community review and comments on the draft of the Edgebrook Resilience Plan. To review the draft, click here or on the image below. To submit comments, please access the public forum here: Public Comment.

Public Meeting #3

The third public engagement meeting was held on Saturday, March 11 at 12pm - 2:00pm at 10120 Hartsook Street, Houston, TX 77034

Public Meeting #2

The second public engagement meeting was held on Saturday, October 1 at 2pm - 4:30pm at 10120 Hartsook Street, Houston, TX 77034

eMobility Microgrant | Now Available Through 9/16

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:

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

City of Houston's Department of Neighborhoods | Neighborhood Matching Grant Program

The Department of Neighborhoods is improving Houston neighborhoods by providing a dollar-for-dollar matching grant reimbursement between $500 to $5,000 to help fund beautification and improvement projects. This program is administered in partnership through the City of Houston Department of Neighborhoods and the City of Houston Council Member’s Offices.

The deadline to submit an application packet is Friday, November 4, 2022, by 5:00 p.m.

To apply, download the packet and watch the informational workshop video to learn how to come up with a qualifying project, how to complete the application, and gain an understanding of the grant procurement process.

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.

Edgebrook

The Edgebrook super neighborhood is located between the Gulf Freeway (west) and South Shaver Street defining the Eastern and Southern boundaries, and the City of South Houston (north).

Located in District E, the Edgebrook 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

Edgebrook is located in the Sims Bayou watershed.