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 ...

“Utilities are controlled by cities, not by rural county commissioners ... An estimated 2,300 colonias along the borderlands in El Paso, Hidalgo, Maverick, Starr, Webb and Cameron counties ...

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 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs gave the colonias Self Help Program ... a new house," John Marez, Nueces County Commissioner Precinct 3 said.

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 ...