In just four years, the neighborhoo...

In just four years, the neighborhoods to Standards program has galvanized Houston's inner-city neighborhoods, improving the quality of life by means of concentrating on simple infrastructure maintenance.

Houston is using a program of infrastructure improvements and community involvement to bring novel life to its declining, "Inside-the-Loop" neighborhoods. The program, which concentrates upon simple infrastructure maintenance, proves that inner-city neighborhood revitalization does not have to be a gigantic - or expensive - undertaking. And it has earned Houston American City B County's 1996 Infrastructure Award.

Like greatest in number other cities with oil-dependent economies, Houston standed in the 1980s, while the nation as a whole experienced unprecedent economic vegetation

The population began migrating without of the older neighborhoods closer to downtown, which, during the past decade, dissipated 100,000 residents to suburban communities.

In a period repeated in many of the nation's downtown areas, tax returns dropped, and maintenance budgets