Following the Supreme Court ruling to end the CDC moratorium in August 2021, Texas Housers wrote a 5-Point Plan that…
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What Congress gets right in its Draft Housing Tax Credit Provisions
The COVID-19 pandemic has made space for many of us to reconsider the “old ways of doing things.” From how…
CDC announces eviction moratorium extension for majority of renters until October 3rd
The Biden Administration has announced that effective August 4th, 2021, the CDC moratorium on evictions will be extended through October…
Bedbugs, security deposits, and the vision to ensure Texas tenant protections
The unfortunate reality for tenants in Texas is that they are afforded very few protections. In fact, more bills have…
Housers advocacy agenda focuses on basic protections for renters
Texas renters need rights. With a dwindling supply of affordable housing, add a global pandemic that has sparked a financial…
Fear of Foreclosure: How homeowners of color are struggling with the financial fallout of COVID-19 in Houston
People of color have historically faced systemic obstacles in access to homeownership, yet so many have still persevered to secure…
Houston’s grace period eviction ordinance was too late for too many. Here is how to fix that.
Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020, Texas Housers has advocated for a grace period ordinance in…
Texas Housers has created a simple checklist of principles for equitable rent relief
After nine months of working with cities and counties in Texas and observing partners across the country do the same,…
Texas Housers outlines goals to ensure 2021 is a year to advance housing justice
With the turn to a new year, people often look forward to the dawn of better days, great possibility and…
Texas COVID relief and eviction diversion programs could fall short if these major issues aren’t fixed
Texas’s first statewide COVID-19 rental assistance program will kick off this January after months of government planning and public calls…
Texas Housers asks CFPB to strike unjust rule shielding banks from public scrutiny
In July of 2020, Texas Housers posted on our blog about the lawsuit we filed alongside cities and fair housing…
In vote to weaken incentives, TDHCA hurts chances for affordable housing in desirable areas
Earlier this month, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs voted to change the rules for where low-income housing…
Podcast Episode 31: Housing Segregation, George Floyd, and Honoring True Housers
For Texas Housers’ latest podcast episode, John and I are experimenting with a new format. We’re discussing what we’re reading,…
Podcast Episode 30: Who is this housing for and where does it go?
Every year, Texas receives millions of dollars in tax credits to help developers build affordable housing. It’s big money and…
Texas Housers joins National Community Reinvestment Coalition lawsuit against CFPB to overturn rule allowing banks to hide their lending records
This morning, Texas Housers, under the leadership of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group,…
Texas Housers creates equitable rental relief guidelines after speaking with local governments across the state
In response to the coronavirus pandemic and widespread economic turmoil, several major cities and counties in Texas have implemented direct…
Fort Worth wants affordable housing and could have it, if the city strongly rejects NIMBY pitfalls
In late June 2020, Fort Worth City Council voted against a zoning change that would have likely secured tax credit…
Here is how Texas GLO must address systemic racial inequity through CDBG-MIT planning and disaster mitigation
Racial prejudice is not simply expressed through interpersonal bigotry, but it is a systemic issue that has been intentionally built…
Texas Housers is monitoring local government responses to COVID 19-induced housing crisis with new scorecard
The CARES Act — the federal stimulus signed into law on March 27, 2020 — authorized substantial fund transfers from…
These maps show San Antonio’s COVID-19 relief should address where the most vulnerable residents live
As the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic started to emerge this past spring, cities and states rushed to find relief…
Coronavirus relief in Texas favors large cities and counties over rural areas at three-to-one rate
Cities and counties in Texas with populations under 500,000 will receive relief funds at a much lower per capita rate…
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. Every…
Tenants send letter to governor requesting ability to order groceries online with SNAP benefits during pandemic
(Note: Community navigator Ericka Bowman contributed to this blog) It is hard enough living in a food desert. Add a…
Texas Housers calls on governor to provide bold leadership to help Texans keep their homes amid health crisis
Gov. Greg Abbott announced yesterday that he and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs have taken initial action…
Texas Housers sends governor, statewide officials housing recommendations to support Texans amid COVID-19 crisis
Communities across Texas continue to grapple with widespread effects of COVID-19. The virus has upended community gatherings, closed schools, restaurants…
Podcast Episode 26: Don’t eat the toxic fish
For decades, federal, state and local officials knew that the fish in Donna Lake in the Rio Grande Valley carried…
Podcast episode 25: A Voice for San Antonio Renters
Nearly half of the city of San Antonio’s residents are renters, and the cost of renting an apartment in the…
Moms4Housing is a model of how to center tenants on the path to housing justice
In early January 2020, Oakland group Moms4Housing was subjected to a militarized eviction from an unoccupied home it had taken…
Podcast Episode 24: Free Our People
In Texas, and across the country disability rights activists have demanded, worked for, and won improved transportation services, the right…
Podcast Episode 23: The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing
There is no question that the impetus for Congress passing and President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1968 Fair Housing…