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Housing First
Housing First is a homelessness intervention that provides immediate permanent housing without requiring sobriety or treatment, developed by Sam Tsemberis in New York City in 1992.
Housing for the Elderly
Housing for the Elderly: housing arrangements for older adults fostering independent living (group homes, small apartments, CCRCs), distinct from supervised homes for the aged; covers US policy history, costs, design, and aging in place.
Housing in Japan
Japanese housing encompasses the country's dwelling stock and housing policy, from traditional minka farmhouses to postwar danchi apartment complexes, with 53.6 million occupied units in 2018.
Housing in Vienna
Housing in Vienna, the Wiener Wohnbau model or Red Vienna legacy: a system of about 220,000 municipal and 200,000 co-operative social flats serving a broad middle class, with high income limits, regulated rents, and 70–80% subsidized new construction.
Housing Quality
Housing quality: physical condition of a home plus its social and physical environment (MeSH, Healthy People 2030); linked to asthma, lead, injuries; measured by self-report, expert assessment, HHSRS, OHQS.
Houska Castle
Houska Castle (Hrad Houska) is a 13th-century Gothic castle in Blatce, Czech Republic, known for a legend that it was built over a gateway to hell.
Houssem Aouar
Houssem Aouar (Houssem-Eddine Chaabane Aouar), born 1998 in Lyon, is an Algerian attacking midfielder from the Lyon academy who played for AS Roma and stars for Al-Ittihad, winning the 2024-25 Saudi Pro League title, and represents Algeria after one France friendly cap.
Houston
Houston is a city in southeastern Texas, founded in 1836 and named for General Sam Houston; it is the largest city in Texas and fourth-largest in the United States.
Houston (actress)
Houston, stage name of Kimberly Halsey (born 1969), American former adult film actress active 1995-2015; known for the 1999 Houston 620 gangbang event and AVN (2004) and XRCO (2015) Hall of Fame inductions; later a Las Vegas phlebotomist and memoirist. Not the director Shine Louise Houston.
Houston Astros
Houston Astros, MLB American League West team founded 1962 as the Colt .45s, renamed Astros in 1964. Play at Daikin Park (formerly Minute Maid Park) since 2025; World Series champions 2017 and 2022.
Houston Astros sign stealing scandal
Houston Astros sign stealing scandal: MLB rules violation in which the 2017 World Series champions used cameras, monitors, and the Codebreaker algorithm plus trash can bangs to steal signs in 2017-2018, exposed by The Athletic in 2019 and punished in 2020.
Houston Brignano
Houston Brignano is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 36th district, advancing from the June 2, 2026, primary.
Houston Comets
Houston Comets, WNBA team 1997-2008, one of the original eight franchises; won the league's first four championships (1997-2000) with Cooper, Swoopes, Thompson; disbanded 2008; name revived via Connecticut Sun relocation for 2027.
Houston Cougars football
Houston Cougars football: University of Houston's FBS team, founded 1946, also called UH Cougars. 479-386-15 all-time, 11 conference titles, 1989 Heisman (Andre Ware), Big 12 member since 2023, plays at 40,000-seat TDECU Stadium.
Houston Cougars men's basketball
The Houston Cougars men's basketball team is the University of Houston's Division I program, best known for the Phi Slama Jama teams of the early 1980s.
Houston County, Georgia, United States
Houston County, Georgia (pronounced 'howston'), a central Georgia county created May 15, 1821 from Creek lands, named for Governor John Houstoun. County seat Perry; largest city Warner Robins, home of Robins Air Force Base; 2020 population 163,633.
Houston Dynamo FC
Houston Dynamo FC, MLS Western Conference club formed by the 2006 San Jose Earthquakes relocation; two-time MLS Cup champion (2006, 2007) and 2018 and 2023 U.S. Open Cup winner, playing at Shell Energy Stadium.
Houston Gaines
Houston Gaines is an American Republican politician serving in the Georgia House of Representatives since 2018 and the 2026 GOP nominee for Georgia's 10th Congressional District.
Houston Gas Pipeline (HPL) System
The Houston Gas Pipeline (HPL) System is a Texas intrastate natural gas pipeline network of about 3,920 miles owned by Energy Transfer, including the Bammel storage reservoir near Houston.
Houston Independent School District
Houston Independent School District (HISD), Texas's largest school district, formed 1923 in Harris County; under TEA state takeover since 2023 with Superintendent Mike Miles, NES reform model, rising accountability ratings, and declining enrollment.
Houston Methodist
Houston Methodist: not-for-profit, faith-based academic health system founded 1919 as The Methodist Hospital by Oscar Norsworthy; flagship Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, eight acute-care hospitals, No. 1 hospital in Texas 15 years running.
Houston Nutt
Houston Nutt (born 1957), American college football coach and former Arkansas quarterback; head coach at Murray State, Boise State, Arkansas (75-48, three SEC West titles), and Ole Miss; career 133-86.
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers, American football team of Houston, Texas, 1960-1996; charter AFL member, two AFL titles, now the Tennessee Titans, which keeps its history; Oilers name retired, Houston's NFL team is the Texans.
Houston Refinery
The Houston Refinery was a 268,000-barrel-per-day full-conversion refinery on the Houston Ship Channel in Houston, Texas, built by Sinclair in 1918 and permanently shut down in 2025.
Houston Rockets
Houston Rockets, NBA Western Conference team founded 1967 as the San Diego Rockets, moved to Houston 1971; back-to-back champions 1994 and 1995; play at Toyota Center, owned by Tilman Fertitta.
Houston Ship Channel
The Houston Ship Channel is a 52-mile dredged waterway in Texas connecting the Port of Houston to Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, opened in 1914.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was an English-born writer whose German nationalism and antisemitic racial theories influenced Nazi ideology. His best-known work was The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, published in 1899.
Houston Texans
Houston Texans, NFL AFC South franchise awarded October 6, 1999 as the 32nd team, began play 2002 after the Oilers left for Tennessee; home Reliant Stadium, owned by the McNair family, coached by DeMeco Ryans.
Houston, we have a problem
"Houston, we have a problem" is a popular phrase signaling something has gone wrong, adapted from the Apollo 13 crew's 1970 radio transmission during an oxygen tank explosion.
Houstonia caerulea
Houstonia caerulea, the azure bluet or Quaker ladies, is a small wildflower of the madder family native to eastern North America, with pale blue, four-lobed spring flowers.