Photos: Patricia Moore				Texas ranks second in the nation in the number of poor children. Source: Housing America's Future: Children at Risk. Low Income Housing Information Service, December 1995.
							(left) Boy, "on the edge of things," on his grandma's porch in the Freedmen's Town neighborhood of Houston. (below) Girl in man's suit jacket and her younger sister watch from porch in Houston.
		More than 88% of poor Texas households with children have at least one major housing problem such as unaffordable rent, physically inadequate housing, or overcrowding.
		Source: Housing America's Future: Children at Risk. Low Income Housing Information Service, December 1995.
						Texas ranks ninth worst nationally in the percent of households with children confronting high housing costs, overcrowding, and lack of complete plumbing or kitchen. Source: Ibid
						(left) Children play in the streets of Freedmenstown amid substandard homes.