The Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Interior Department, a program of the New Deal, developed Houston Gardens for the purpose of giving poor and landless people the opportunity to become homeowners.
[2] Rafael Longoria and Susan Rogers of the Rice Design Alliance said that Houston Gardens could be described as "rurban," a word coined in 1918 which describes an area with a mix of urban and rural characteristics.
[3] The layout of Houston Gardens consists of a large oval parceled on its ends into plots of land shaped like pies.
Longoria and Rogers said that "this unique plan is easy to spot on a Houston map.
"[1] In 2015 the City of Houston Trinity/Houston Gardens Super Neighborhood had 15,798 residents.