Photos: Alan Pogue				Five out of six low income Texas families who qualify for government housing assistance do not receive it because of the shortage of subsidized housing in Texas.
							Source: US Census and HUD data, 1990.
							Public housing is often built in undesirable locations. The photo shows public housing adjacent to a lead smelter in West Dallas.
			257,368 Texas families live in subsidized housing. 29% live in public housing units, the other 71% live in privately-owned housing subsidized by the government. Source: Compiled from HUD data by the Texas Tenants Union, April 1997.
		There are 125,431 families waiting for a vacant unit to become available among the 74,629 public housing units in Texas. This number would be larger had not the largest cities closed their waiting lists years ago. Source: Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, State Low Income Housing Plan.				These three children are among thousands who live in public housing developments in Dallas. Their apartment was built in the 1950's. Like many public housing projects in Texas it is in need of rehabilitation.