Colonias are economically distressed housing ... El Paso County, Val Verde County, Maverick County, Webb County, Starr County, Hidalgo County and Cameron and Willacy counties are currently served ...

In El Paso County alone ... The report found the largest populations in colonias are in Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Webb and Maverick counties; in South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley; and in ...

It's believed that there could be up to 200 colonias in Nueces County, although officially only around three dozen are recognized. Those communities are defined by the state as places where people ...

Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York Times “I’m trying to do everything that I can do,” said Everardo Villarreal, a county commissioner who represents the colonias where Ms. Quilatan and Ms ...