Why does a Houston neighborhood have no streets or sidewalks?

Leave the people that live there alone..

Property owner didn't sell, so the city built around it! Happens everywhere!

Man leave these people alone.

You blew up the spot! Good job. Why do you think they didn't want to talk on camera ? Why do you think noone from that little spot complained.

Tbh if you cleaned it up and greened it a bit that place would look chill asf

i remember dropping off a friend in a remote area in waxahachie texas. The whole area looked like that. She told me they were old slave quarters. The ex-slaves didn't want ro leave and the land owner didnt kick them out. I felt like i went back in time.

Looks like a developer has paid this reporter off and is licking his chops getting cheap property to build boxes.

A single property with several homes on it? Not so strange. Sounds like a civil issue between the tenants and landlord... when you report on an issue you need to do the research first, or you can end up creating more problems than you solve

Dang, Isiah. You just busted these folks out that live along that shanty street. Now they'll eventually be forced to move out....

Leave them people alone!!!!!!

it's historical, don't force these people to move.

This looks no different than how trailer parks look. Doesn’t look bad at all, you can tell the tenants there take care of the area. It’s not trashed or overcrowded no one seems bothered, so why even bother with this 🤨

You knew it was "Snitchin" before you did the segment!! Those few houses isn't bothering dude (the SNITCH) with the big white house!! Funny how ALLLLLLLL these yrs nobody else brought this info to the news.

Big deal! Those are rent houses off of Houston Avenue, you're on someone's private property, it's not a neighborhood...

It's 8 old houses that were left behind. There probably were roads to it 100 years ago...but everything built up around it and it just got simply cut off. Maybe the residents like it that way if nobody wants to talk about it. Leave them alone. If they want a road or a sidewalk to wherever it goes, let them ask for one. Maybe they like the fact that nobody can get in there and mess with them. Anyone ever thought of that?

It looks like a beautiful little street to me. Maybe the community LIKES it just the way it is. Sure - fix the drainage issue, but don't change the nature of the neighborhood without first consulting the residents.

This just stirred up a hornets nest. Doesn’t seem like anybody was complaining about it, there are no issues other than the flooded area between the houses. “Pave paradise and put up a parking lot”

Best thing about leaving the city. No sidewalks. Living far off the street

If they make the City build a road it will MOST DEFINITELY increase their taxes. Leave well enough alone! It seems that the residents aren't the ones complaining. It's outsiders who are making all the noise. Increase taxes means increased rent prices. Where I live we don't have a road or US POSTAL SERVICE. We have post office boxes for everyone who lives here. Now we do have FEDEX UPS AND DHL Drivers who drive up to our door to deliver packages. The government told us that it used to be an old Indian trail that people made into a road that they don't recognize as a legitimate road. But we are up in the Mountains and it's a DEAD END ROAD. Just before the Hurricane hit Puerto Rico we paved the road with asphalt. I don't use the government's electricity or water since I have alternative energy sources and harvest rain, purify and store rain water. We are sort of a small village here. So if I was a resident of that area I wouldn't complain about not having a road.

The reason this area hasn't a street is because the entire area is on private property. The city cannot build a road or sidewalk on private property.