Cuney Homes' residents are searching for solutions as crime and gang violence continue to...
Altaf Malik was missing for two days after he left home in December 2017 to meet a potential buyer for his car. The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office distributed this missing person photo at the time. His body was later found in a Third Ward dumpster. The pair who pleaded guilty to his murder were sentenced in Harris County in 2021.
Residents also attempted to contact the owners of corner stores in the community because those businesses"don't add value" and only take away from the neighborhood by allowing drug dealers and gang recruiters to hang out in the parking lot all day, according to Smith."That's a huge source of crime for us," she added.
, including both empty lots and occupied homes. The properties will be used in the expansion and redevelopment of the Cuney Homes public housing complex, which would include both affordable housing and market-rate units throughout Third Ward, LaRence Snowden, chair of the Houston Housing Authority, told a City Council committee in February.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said more federal money should be allocated to help reduce violence in these neighborhoods, including funding gun buyback events.
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