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Rising rent
Rent goes up and neighbors can no longer stay.
What we are building
Home ownership access
Help neighbors get a path to owning a home here.
The partyfor theneighborhood.
To support, perpetuate & archive our endangered Black neighborhoods.
Houston is the menu. Tap a shape on the map.
Why this exists
BLACKNUNITED means Black neighborhoods united, and Black neighbors united.
Houston’s Black neighborhoods built this city. Today, rising costs, rezoning and quick sales are moving people out of them, day by day, one issue at a time. We support, perpetuate and archive these neighborhoods and the neighbors who live in them. Everyone can support us through this journey.
The archive
Houston’s Black neighborhoods.
Every neighborhood has a story. Maybe it is yours, or a family member’s, long gone from the block. Tell us, and we will write it down.
Know a story? Write to us at quenton@theneighborfront.com.
The power belongs to the neighbors.
Houston’s Black neighborhoods have popped up and disappeared over their 160+ years of Houston history. From the first few bricks, so mud wasn’t the path home, to mansions off the bayou and everything in between, the memories of our history run deep. The Polaroids, the undeveloped photographs and the distant memories are crowded out by the distractions of today. We chose neighborhoods based on history, community, cultural importance, but most of all PRESENCE. It is not just ours to choose. That power belongs to the neighbors, the people who actually live here. If you feel a neighborhood is missing, please submit a request for it to be added.
To ask for a neighborhood, write to quenton@theneighborfront.com.
What our neighborhoods face
What we are building.
Six issues. Scroll, and the map changes layer with each one.
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Evictions
Neighbors face eviction, often alone and without notice they understand.
What we are building
Eviction help
Plain steps and real help. Not legal advice.
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Displacement
Families are moved out, and the places that held them are changed or gone.
What we are building
Repair support
Help keeping homes safe and standing so families can stay.
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Food insecurity
Too many neighbors go without a hot meal.
What we are building
Hot meal access
Hot meal access in our neighborhoods.
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Too few ways to grow
Few doors open for neighbors who want to learn, earn and lead.
What we are building
Ways to grow yourself
Training and opportunity to grow, from your own block.
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Neighbors can’t easily find each other
The people who love a neighborhood are spread far and wide, and hard to reach.
What we are building
Connection and access
BNU Tap-In: one tap shares who you are.
The platform is in the magazine. Or hear it from your neighbor.
Who does what.
Neighborhood ambassadors
Live in the neighborhood they speak for.
Neighborhood supporters
Live outside. They stand with us, and they always know it. You live outside, you stand with us.
We are not a political party.
Neighbor of the week
Sunnyside
QR · SunnysideQR
I was born and raised in Sunnyside, Houston. I look back fondly on the neighborhood of yesterday. As an experienced real estate developer, I now know about the mechanisms that are pounding our neighborhoods. I have been instrumental in some of them. BLACKNUNITED is that, refocused, reimagined and reaimed.
What we ask of you
Five things.
- Read the first issue.
- Wear the art. Every piece is QR’s own, numbered, and each run marks one moment.
- Stand with a neighbor.
- Tell five people.
- If you run a business, tell us if you support the neighborhood too.
How to become a neighborhood ambassador
Start on the map.
Pick your neighborhood. Tap its shape on the map, or choose it here.
Sign the pledge
Anyone can. Free.
Ask for a spot as a neighborhood ambassador
If you live in the neighborhood. Neighborhood ambassador spots are limited and by invitation. We never promise one.
Finish sign-up
Orientation is in person, in your neighborhood.
We promise opportunity to grow, not jobs. Nothing on this site says what anyone is paid.
