Cuney Homes

Cuney Homes is a public housing complex in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas.

[2] It is named after Norris Wright Cuney, a Texas politician who assisted African-Americans during the Reconstruction.

[1] Cuney Homes is east of the Houston Belt and Terminal Railway (HB&T) and north of Blodgett Street.

[6] Cuney is next to Texas Southern University,[2] and Yates High School.

[6] In 2006 METRO (Houston) rerouted some area bus services, prompting Cuney Homes resident council vice president Veronica Deboest to ask for them to restore them to their original locations as they were further away from Cuney Homes.

[10] That year it ultimately became a charter school affiliated with HISD.