La Guadalupe Houses for Sale

East of the U.S.-Mexico border, Laredo’s La Guadalupe is a modest community steeped in tradition and culture, thriving on the businesses of those who call the community home. Known as a colonia—Spanish for neighborhood—La Guadalupe is Laredo’s first affordable housing project. Planned in the 1930s, it was completed in the 1940s by clearing 12 city blocks to make way for 272 dwellings. Once additional housing became available, businesses flourished, and traditions came alive. “It was my first home, and everyone was looked out for,” says Carlos Valle, who lived in the community for 22 years with his parents and five other siblings. A retired professor who taught history and urban studies at Laredo College and Texas A&M International University, Valle describes La Guadalupe as a melting pot. “It’s a diverse mix of people. Firefighters, police officers, teachers, county employees and business owners,” he says. One such business owner was his father, who ran Superior Bakery on Callaghan Street for decades until they closed several years ago. Living in a four-bedroom home with a yard—a first for Valle—he said the colonia was, and still is, run by the matriarchs of families. “Our mother