Adam Pirtle, Author at Texas Housers

by Adam Pirtle April 20, 2020 0

Texas Housers comments on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments outline the necessary action behind the city’s talk

On April 16, Texas Housers submitted comments alongside Texas Appleseed on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. EveryContinue Reading

by Adam Pirtle September 5, 2019

Local issues State issues

Lubbock’s zoning has a history of Jim Crow. City officials refuse to reckon with it.

Untangling a century of discrimination takes hard, dedicated work. For nearly two years, neighborhoods in Lubbock’s East and North Side haveContinue Reading

by Adam Pirtle May 9, 2019

Local issues National issues

Opportunity Zones were supposed to aid struggling areas. This luxury high rise using the program yet again only serves the wealthy.

Since the haphazard rollout of the Opportunity Zone program in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, advocates acrossContinue Reading

by Adam Pirtle April 17, 2019

Local issues State issues

Late fees can destabilize renters struggling to get by. These punishing bills empowering landlords endanger them further.

Long-established Texas laws that have protected tenants for years from paying punitive and unreasonable late fees for overdue rent areContinue Reading

by Adam Pirtle July 11, 2018

Local issues Uncategorized

A group of Lubbock neighborhood associations asks the City to make an equitable comprehensive plan – will Lubbock listen?

For many American cities, the biggest obstacle for creating an equitable comprehensive plan for the future is overcoming systemically racistContinue Reading