Houston has also been the site of numerous industrial disasters and construction accidents in 2019 OSHA found that Texas was the leading state in the nation for crane accidents in Houston a 2008 crane collapse at a refinery killed 4 people and injured 6 the crane that collapsed was one of the largest cranes in the nation possessing a 400-foot boom that can lift more than a million pounds, The Harris County Housing Authority (HCHA) is a governmental nonprofit corporation which addresses the need for quality affordable housing the HCHA has been recognized by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development as the highest performing housing authority in the region and was recently named one of America's 10 best Public Housing Authorities. Guy R Rankin IV is Chief Executive Officer of Harris County Housing Authority (HCHA). .
Asian Americans are a sizable minority group in Texas Americans of Asian descent form 3.8 percent of the population with those of non-Hispanic descent making up 3.7 percent of the populace They total more than 808,000 individuals Non-Hispanic Asians number over 795,000 Just over 200,000 Indian Americans make Texas their home Texas is also home to over 187,000 Vietnamese and 136,000 Chinese in addition to 92,000 Filipinos and 62,000 Koreans there are 18,000 Japanese Americans living in the state Lastly over 111,000 people are of other Asian ancestry groups such as Cambodian Thai and Hmong Sugar Land a city within the Houston metropolitan area and Plano within the Dallas metropolitan area both have high concentrations of ethnic Chinese and Korean residents the Houston and Dallas areas and to a lesser extent the Austin metropolitan area all contain substantial Vietnamese communities. The state's two most widely recognized flagship universities are the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University ranked as the 52nd and 69th best universities in the nation according to the 2014 edition of U.S News & World Report's "Best Colleges" respectively Some observers also include the University of Houston and Texas Tech University as tier one flagships alongside UT Austin and A&M the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) ranks the state's public universities into three distinct tiers:. Earl Campbell the "Tyler Rose" played football for John Tyler High in Tyler before playing for the Texas Longhorns and the Houston Oilers Don Meredith who famously played for the Dallas Cowboys played at Mt Vernon Dez Bryant a football player from Lufkin formerly played wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys before signing with the New Orleans Saints (then getting injured three days afterwards) Adrian Peterson a star running back for the Minnesota Vikings played high-school football in Palestine Other high-school sports are popular in East Texas including basketball baseball volleyball softball and track! . . .
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