Thai Xuan Village

Thai Xuan Village (Vietnamese: Làng Thái Xuân) is a multi-family condominium complex in southeastern Houston, Texas.

[3] Paragon First Trading, controlled by Tony Nguyen, sold Vietnamese people condominium units for low prices.

[6] In February 2007, residents of Glenbrook Valley complained to Mayor of Houston Bill White about the condition of the complex.

[1] In 1998 Betty Ann Bowser, a reporter for PBS NewsHour, said that Thai Xuan Village was "beginning to show its age.

"[4] In 2007 residents of Glenbrook Valley characterized the complex, as paraphrased by Ruth Samuelson of the Houston Press, as "a firetrap with numerous building code violations" that had been "falling apart for years".

The microfarms have a variety of plants growing herbs and vegetables native to Vietnam, including calamondins, choy greens, limes, night jasmine, melons, mints, papaya trees, peppers, and satsumas.

[2] Josh Harkinson of the Houston Press said that when one enters the complex, it "unfurls like a lotus flower.

The chapel hosted a prayer hour each day, and held masses twice weekly in the Vietnamese language.

[3] In addition to the church, grocery store, and salon, in 1997 Thai Xuan also housed a school and a travel agency.

Tran Linh, a Harris County Hospital District outreach counselor who was born in Vietnam who had worked in the Vietnamese multifamily complexes for one decade by 2004, assisted the production of the report.

"[6] As a result of the report, Mayor of Houston Bill White responded by creating a task force.

The task force was scheduled to have Rogene Gee Calvert, the head of a political action committee oriented to Asian Americans, as its leader.

Josh Harkinson of the Houston Press said that farming in Thai Xuan Village "has been as much a hobby as an occupation.

In November 2005 the police told the woman who sold the fish that she would be arrested if she did not pay the fine, so at that point the market ended.

[7] During the same year, due to the presence of the religious institutions, Harkinson said "Religion is literally at the center of daily life in the village -- just as it was in Vietnam," referring to the Roman Catholic influence in the former Thai Xuan village in South Vietnam.

[12] Prior to the opening of Ortiz, which was built in 2002,[13] Thai Xuan was zoned to Stevenson Middle School.

[15] Prior to the opening of Chávez, Thai Xuan was zoned to Milby High School.