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Many hundreds of thousands of Texas poorest families live in colonias. These two videos present the housing conditions in two different types of colonias:border colonias and non-border colonias.

Border colonias are located in Texas counties within 50 miles of the border with Mexico.

Non-border colonias are located in other parts of the state. They exist in rural areas and within the city limits of Texas cities.

Texas colonias

Photographs of housing conditions in a border and a "non-border" colonia (2004).

Border colonia - Cameron Park - Cameron County, TX (outside the city of Brownsville)

Non-border colonia - Seth Ward - Hale County, TX (in the Panhandle outside the town of Plainview)