He called them "the little houses." They were the shotgun shacks and decomposing Victorians, the flophouses where the panhandlers crashed and the drug dealers weighed rock. Along the crabgrass yards of the Fourth Ward slum, they bred the kind of crime and poverty unheard of in Rich Agnew's Clear Lake subdivision. Yet walking the narrow streets with a realtor, Agnew could...
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Daniel Kramer
Lynn Edmundson, direction of Historic Houston, says
older homes can be renovated at a fraction of the cost
of new construction. But they also come with unique
hassles.