Our analysis of the State of Texas’ 2015 Competitive Housing Tax Credit awards process seeks to understand how the current…
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2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit Report: Flawed system leads to undesirable locations for affordable developments
This week Texas Housers will release the 2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit report, an analysis of the state’s competitive process to award…
2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit Report: How support points limit housing options for low income families
This week Texas Housers will release the 2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit report, an analysis of the state’s competitive process to…
2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit Report: When politicians enable prejudice
This week Texas Housers will release our 2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit Report, an analysis of the state’s competitive process to…
Video: Introducing the Sunnyside Plan, a new kind of community plan for Houston
Sunnyside Plan, a community planning effort of, by and for residents of Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood, launched with a kickoff meeting…
Colonias conference provides a valuable space for ideas
At the end of July, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation (TSAHC) hosted a two…
Watch our short documentary on housing and environmental injustice in Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi’s historic African-American neighborhoods of Hillcrest and Washington-Coles have endured decades of injustice: Redlining and housing segregation, industrial…
The Houston general plan: Recommendations for a more equitable city
I recently had the opportunity to provide public testimony on the City of Houston’s new general plan. The premise of the…
Mosquita y Mari: Highlighting the intersectionality of housing and queer identity
As part of Pride week in the Rio Grande Valley, Aqui Estamos, a fantastic new group focused on LGBTQ issues…
The real impact of the Supreme Court’s fair housing decision
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision on the much debated case Texas Department of Housing & Community…
Public Radio International highlights housing issues in the Rio Grande Valley
Public Radio International reporter (and former TxLIHIS staff member) Alina Simone spent some time in the Rio Grande Valley last month…
Packed house demands colonia streetlight program in the Rio Grande Valley
Last Thursday our partners in the Rio Grande Valley, La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) and A Resource In Serving…
Bo’s Clips: Fannie and Freddie in the Black
An improved housing market puts Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back in the black and generating enough profit to repay…
2013 Texas Legislative Session Wrap Up
Here’s our wrap up of the major low-income housing issues in the 83rd regular session of the Texas legislature. TDHCA…
Bo’s Clips: Unequal Recovery
The Federal Reserve has released a new report that asserts the nation has yet to recover from the recession. While…
Bo’s Clips: More Mortgage Abuse
As the ink dries on a $25 billion settlement with the government last year, big banks resume their sleazy mortgage…
Senate Passes TDHCA Sunset
The Texas Senate passed out the TDHCA Sunset bill this afternoon. The bill voted out adopted the recommendations of the…
TDHCA Sunset Heads to Senate
TXLIHIS Co-Director John Henneberger testified this week at the Intergovernmental Relations Committee hearing on the TDHCA Sunset bill. His testimony…
Bo’s Clips: Continuing mortgage servicing abuses
While the housing industry slowly recovers, New York’ attorney general is suing big banks for continuing to scam borrowers. The…
Bo’s Clips: Minorities Pay More for Homes
Racial inequities in US housing ownership continue as a new report shows minorities pay more for their homes and are…
House Amends TDHCA Sunset Bill
The Texas House yesterday debated HB3361, the bill to continue the functions of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs…
Bo’s Clips: Wall Street Betting on Single Family
As the housing recovery stalls, big banks move in to grab the bargains, leaving low-income buyers languishing. Market analysts speculate…
Hurricane Ike survivors testify at House Ways and Means
Shelly Batten and Tina Colunga drove up from Galveston yesterday to testify on HB 835. HB 835, by Representative Eiland, (and…
CFED: Manufactured Homes in South Texas
This morning CFED unveiled two sets of materials covering Manufactured Housing in South Texas: a Data Snapshot, which illustrates the…
Bo’s Clips: Houston Looks for Work Force Housing
Houston planners are proposing to develop more work force housing for middle income households inside the inner loop. The mayor…
Bo’s Clips: Dallas Council Member Blames Plano for Dallas Homeless
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac begin to make write-downs on troubled mortgages as they post a 2012 profit of $17.2…
NLIHC: Americans Support Mortgage Interest Deduction Reform
A poll commissioned by the National Low Income Housing Coalition finds that while most Americans do favor the mortgage interest…
The Blogosphere Discusses Segregation in Austin
Over the last two months, there’s been an uptick in folks visiting the Texas Housers website after searching on terms…
Bo’s News Clips: Ft Worth Voids Housing Vouchers
The reality of federal cuts hit the poor first with HUD preparing to cut 100,000 Section 8 vouchers nationwide. Anticipating…
HUD Texas Sequester Letter
Below is a copy of the letter from HUD to Texas Governor Rick Perry regarding the impact of the sequester…