There is a painful misconception in disaster recovery that is sometimes used as an excuse to maintain the status quo:…
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Podcast Episode 22: Creosote in the Greater Fifth Ward
The Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens areas of Houston are historic Black neighborhoods where families have proudly planted roots for…
The Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019 succeeds in the House of Representatives, but more work lies ahead
The Federal Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019 (RDRA) passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on November 18, 2019…
Episode 20: A Look At RAD Conversion
In 2012, Congress authorized some public housing agencies to convert units from their original federally-funded public housing developments to project-based Section 8…
Texas is below average nationwide in required affordability for LIHTC properties. TDHCA is charging to change that.
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is the largest source of funding for affordable multifamily property development and…
Episode 19: Disaster recovery is leaving out renters
When a disaster hits, flooding and fires might not discriminate, but the systems and funding intended to rebuild our communities…
Houston neighborhoods of color should be supported under the Clean Water Act, but they aren’t. Here is how Texas Housers thinks the state should fix that.
Texas Housers recently submitted comments to the Texas Attorney General’s Office and Department of Justice regarding the consent decree between…
Announcing the 2019 Texas Houser Awards on November 5th
On November 5, the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service will host our annual Texas Houser Awards. This year, our…
Episode 18: The Power of Renters
More than one-third of households in Texas are renters, and in Austin, more than half of residents rent their homes.…
Podcast Episode 17: When Highways Threaten Our Legacy
In 1915, Independence Heights was the first town incorporated by African Americans in the state of Texas. For more than…
Podcast Episode 16: The House of Cards America Built
When the U.S. government designed postwar housing policy and subsidized massive developments and suburbs, it created a strong middle class…
Houston’s I-45 expansion deeply damages life for low-income residents. Upholding the Four Rights could help them.
In 2015, partners of Texas Housers developed the Four Rights as a framework to discuss and practice fair housing. Those…
Houston’s downtown Opportunity Zone is a prime example why the program desperately needs reform
Since its creation in 2017, the Opportunity Zones program was touted by the Trump Administration as a measure to revitalize…
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 have…
San Antonio Could Pilot the State’s First Right to Counsel Initiative To Help Renters Facing Eviction
San Antonio could be the first city in Texas to pilot a Right to Counsel initiative to guarantee renters in…
HUD is giving Fort Worth an Envision Center when its at-risk neighborhoods need a clear vision for their fraught future
“Housing assistance should be more than just putting a roof over someone’s head,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson told a Fort…
Podcast episode 15: Sonido del Agua Part 2
If you want to change law and policy, you have to change people’s minds. And to change people’s minds, you…
Harris County steps into a future of equitable recovery by passing the #HarrisThrives Resolution
Two years ago this week, Hurricane Harvey made landfall over Southeast Texas. The storm’s strength didn’t just punish with its heavy…
Texas Housers explores Houston’s segregation of Project Based Section 8 Housing in a new report
The politics of who is in charge may shift through the years, but our commitment as a nation to providing…
Podcast Episode 14: El Sonido del Agua Part I
Season 2 of our podcast is live, and it starts with a deep dive into a multi-year drainage campaign in…
Texas Housers Finds New Federal Rule Denying Immigrants Access To Essential Resources “A Heartless Political Tactic”
While it is true that our country is one of great prosperity, many in our communities work hard to provide…
The expansion of Interstate 45 is harming low-income communities in Houston. Here’s what can be done to fix that.
For the past several months, Texas Housers and our partners have been tracking the public concern around the expansion of…
Podcast Episode 13: Where do the 2020 presidential candidates stand on housing?
On the season 1 finale of our podcast, A Little Louder, Texas Housers co-director John Henneberger and I review what…
TxDOT’S Historical Resources Report Omits Houston’s Independence Heights
For more than 14 years, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has been planning the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP),…
Podcast episode 11: The roundabout way we subsidize affordable housing
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program is helping to produce most of the new affordable housing in our country.…
Colonia leaders debut advocacy tutorial video to expand access to public street lighting
For more than a decade, colonia leaders, organizers and Texas Housers have been pushing Hidalgo County to target program funds…
Podcast episode 10: Inside HUD’s plan that may threaten mixed-status families
In episode 10, Texas Housers breaks down the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development new proposed rule to evict…
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 across…
Poor living conditions in a Galveston subsidized apartment complex add to the island’s affordable housing crisis
In episode 9 of our podcast, A Little Louder, we talk about how a subsidized apartment complex in Galveston is…
Gentrification can’t explain all of a neighborhood’s failures. The racial wealth gap allows us to examine deeper.
Across the country, there are numerous underserved and disinvested communities fighting for the ownership and legacy of their neighborhoods. Gentrification…