This harmony is most celebrated in the colonias (suburbs) of Roma, Condesa and Zona Rosa.
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Catholic Charities partnered with local communities to make feeding sites available in rural areas and colonias.
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But the colonias have also had some help since the abysmal conditions began to draw more statewide attention.
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The colonias were built to meet the demand for cheap housing, with little concern for structural integrity or standards of living.
But even against that background, the colonias are in a stark state.
In the colonias of south Texas food stamps stave off malnutrition.
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In 1999 Texas authorised a colonias initiative to co-ordinate state efforts to improve transport, housing, health and water, and hundreds of millions of state dollars have been allocated for the work over the past decade.
New colonias are still being built.
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