In May 2020, Gov. Greg Abbott and state leaders penned a letter to city and county officials about plans for…
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Watch Texas Housers’ December COVID Response Call on link between Housing & Health
As our nation looks to turn over the calendar to 2021, we also approach a dangerous deadline. The CDC’s moratorium…
Texas Housers and interfaith community groups call on state leaders for eviction moratorium
As our nation marches toward a new year, we also edge toward a cliff with mass evictions on a scale…
Introducing the Residents’ and Advocates’ Equitable Relocation Checklist
Contributed by Caleb Roberts, Sophie Dulberg, and Ericka Bowman When we talk about displacement, we often speak generally about the…
Podcast Episode 32: Searching For A Landlord To Take My Voucher
Housing vouchers should be the empowering ticket to housing peace of mind of low-income families and individuals. However, for far…
Texas Housers November COVID Response Call focused on delivering rent relief to the public
As we grow closer to the end of the year, with a possibly expiring eviction moratorium from the CDC, it…
Texas Housers and Coalition for Tenant Justice demand tenants have say in new SAHA CEO
When news broke that former San Antonio Housing Authority CEO David Nisivoccia’s was departing his position earlier this month, many…
Watch our digital broadcast of the 2020 Houser Awards (Video)
For many, 2020 has been the most challenging year in recent history. But despite the unique challenges of the COVID-19…
Texas Housers statement on City of Houston’s diversion of CARES Act funds to police, garbage bins
The CARES Act was designed to provide rent relief and other aid for complications caused by COVID-19. There have been…
Texas Housers COVID Response Call and Keep Texans Housed website track where housing and the pandemic meet
Since news of the COVID-19 pandemic first broke in spring 2020, Texas Housers has made tracking the disease’s effects on…
Podcast Episode 29: The Trouble With PFCs
After taking the summer off, A Little Louder is back on the air! Though there are only a few months…
The CDC’s national eviction moratorium is long overdue, but won’t protect tenants without robust rental relief
On Sept 1, the Center for Disease Control and the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the federal…
HUD’s $50 million Housing Mobility grant is a challenge for Texas Public Housing Authorities to step up
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced it is making available $50 million to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)…
With Texas in crisis, local governments are suspending the Public Information Act indefinitely and refusing service
Contributed by Eli Barrish, Elizabeth Roehm, and Adam Pirtle Since the CARES Act passed in March 2020, billions of taxpayer…
Texas rent relief programs are failing to target low-income residents under COVID-19
COVID-19 was first documented reaching Texas in March 2020, and residents have suffered disease, job and income loss, and fear…
Texas Housers joins Texas Organizing Project in our continued fight for Right To Cure in San Antonio
San Antonio City Council, in a 5-6 vote that took place on Thursday, May 14, decided to rule against the…
Texas Housers calls on local officials to preserve communities and protect people from homelessness and displacement
The federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic was delayed and has been, at times, inconsistent and confusing. Much of the…
Texas Housers unites with more than 100 San Antonio residents and groups requesting a right to cure rent during COVID-19
COVID-19 has interrupted our everyday lives in many ways, including our access to income. More than 1 million jobs have…
Texas Housers joins Texas Tenants’ Union in call for $100 billion in emergency rent relief
We have joined with our partners at Texas Tenants’ Union and Texas Homeless Network in ensuring that the COVID-19 crisis…
Basic necessities are scarce for everyone under COVID-19; residents in low-income households tell us it’s even worse for them.
“Our community has always survived without, so this isn’t necessarily new, but during a state of emergency, we are more…
HUD stated it is encouraging public housing authorities to stop evictions during the COVID-19 crisis, but it’s excluding the majority of its tenants
This week, President Trump announced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is “suspending all foreclosures and evictions until…
Read Texas Housers’ statement on COVID-19 preparedness and protections in the State of Texas
When Texans are confronted with rising floodwater, violent tornadoes, or other threats, we have shown that we band together to…
I-45 expansion in Houston offers little to numerous displaced residents, Texas Housers outlines in comments to TxDOT
The proposed expansion of I-45 in Houston, officially known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), is a prime…
Texas Housers defends AFFH rule in statement to Congressional Oversight Committee for ‘Fair Housing Accountability’ hearing
On February 5, Congress is holding a hearing entitled “The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability” to discuss…
In a series of op-eds, Texas Housers outline injustices with HUD’s protection rollbacks and Houston’s cancer cluster
Texas Housers is committed to housing justice in all the avenues that we use. Communities where individuals and families suffer…
Texas Housers opposes HUD’s further retreat from promoting and enforcing fair housing
This week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Secretary Ben Carson abdicated its role as the country’s…
‘Unsafe. Unsanitary. Unequal.’ is a digital experience from Texas Housers detailing segregation in Houston’s Project-Based Section 8 Housing
In 2019, Texas Housers spent the entire year documenting the disadvantages for Black tenants in HUD-subsidized, Project-Based Section 8 Rental…
Episode 21: The Stink Of Unequal Sewage
Housing inequality can often manifest in ways that many do not think of and some take for granted. For example,…
Texas Housers decries HUD’s dismantling of the Disparate Impact Rule with public comments available for all
Last night, Texas Housers submitted public comments opposing HUD’s changes to the Disparate Impact Rule. For more than 40 years,…
Texas Housers presents the Tenant view of Houston’s segregation of Project Based Section 8 Housing in latest report
Texas Housers is exploring the issues of HUD-subsidized housing from the perspective of the tenants. In Part 1 of a…