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Colonias within 100km of the United States-Mexico border |
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Colonias within 100km of the United States-Mexico border |
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The term "Colonia" is used to designate a community located near the U.S.-Mexico border that lacks adequate infrastructure and is characterized by substandard housing. Colonias typically have high rates of poverty, and are often located outside incorporated areas, which make it difficult for residents to pay for basic infrastructure such as roads, water, and sewage. Many federal agencies, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency, have programs for the Colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border. Because of the legislation of the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990, section 916, the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California are required to set aside ten percent of their Community Development Block Grant allocations for Colonias.
In order to effectively support housing and community development activities for the Colonias, HUD needs an accurate assessment of social and economic conditions in these communities. Detailed Census demographic data could be used to better understand conditions in Colonias, but these data are not available at the Colonia level. This situation exists because Colonia settlements are non-standard geographies that do not generally align with Census geography or statistics. In addition, Colonias are often represented and defined differently across programs and agencies.
To meet the data needs for Colonias, HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) has developed and continues to improve a database for Colonias. This database covered Colonias in twenty one counties in the states of Arizona, California, and New Mexico. As the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Water Development Board have already compiled a well-developed publicly available database for Texas Colonias, Colonias in Texas were excluded from this HUD's effort. There are several important objectives for the Colonia mapping program: (1) to map Colonia boundaries in order to identify where Colonias are located; (2) to establish estimation of Census statistics for Colonias, specifically, the Census Summary File 1 and Summary File 3 variables, to Colonias that are included in PD&R’s database; and (3) to provide public access to the Colonia data through web-based mapping. This program coupled with the work already done for Texas can help enable the development of the first publicly available, consistent and shareable Southwest Border Colonia Database. |
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colonias |
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colonias |
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