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Basic necessities are scarce for everyone under COVID-19; residents in low-income households tell us it’s even worse for them.

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 24, 2020

“Our community has always survived without, so this isn’t necessarily new, but during a state of emergency, we are more…

Tags: covid-19, Houston, Transportation

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

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 19, 2020

This week, President Trump announced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is “suspending all foreclosures and evictions until…

Tags: covid-19, evictions, HUD

Read Texas Housers’ statement on COVID-19 preparedness and protections in the State of Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 17, 2020

When Texans are confronted with rising floodwater, violent tornadoes, or other threats, we have shown that we band together to…

Tags: coronavirus, covid-19

I-45 expansion in Houston offers little to numerous displaced residents, Texas Housers outlines in comments to TxDOT

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 12, 2020

The proposed expansion of I-45 in Houston, officially known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), is a prime…

Tags: Houston, I-45 expansion

Texas Housers defends AFFH rule in statement to Congressional Oversight Committee for ‘Fair Housing Accountability’ hearing

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 5, 2020

On February 5, Congress is holding a hearing entitled “The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability” to discuss…

Tags: AFFH, Congress, HUD

In a series of op-eds, Texas Housers outline injustices with HUD’s protection rollbacks and Houston’s cancer cluster

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 29, 2020

Texas Housers is committed to housing justice in all the avenues that we use. Communities where individuals and families suffer…

Tags: Cancer Cluster, Fifth Ward, HUD, Kashmere Gardens, op-ed

Texas Housers opposes HUD’s further retreat from promoting and enforcing fair housing

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 9, 2020

This week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Secretary Ben Carson abdicated its role as the country’s…

Tags: AFFH, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD

‘Unsafe. Unsanitary. Unequal.’ is a digital experience from Texas Housers detailing segregation in Houston’s Project-Based Section 8 Housing

Local issues, State issues, Studies•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 2, 2020

In 2019, Texas Housers spent the entire year documenting the disadvantages for Black tenants in HUD-subsidized, Project-Based Section 8 Rental…

Tags: featured, Houston, HUD, project based section 8

Episode 21: The Stink Of Unequal Sewage

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 9, 2019

Housing inequality can often manifest in ways that many do not think of and some take for granted. For example,…

Tags: A Little Louder, Environmental justice, Sewage

Texas Housers decries HUD’s dismantling of the Disparate Impact Rule with public comments available for all

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 18, 2019

Last night, Texas Housers submitted public comments opposing HUD’s changes to the Disparate Impact Rule. For more than 40 years,…

Tags: Disparate impact, HUD, public comment

Texas Housers presents the Tenant view of Houston’s segregation of Project Based Section 8 Housing in latest report

Local issues, Studies•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 10, 2019

Texas Housers is exploring the issues of HUD-subsidized housing from the perspective of the tenants. In Part 1 of a…

Tags: Houston, Report, Section 8

Two years of disaster recovery: we are holding our fire for now as we listen to survivors and ask government for a honest accounting

Harvey Recovery, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 1, 2019

In the two years since Hurricane Harvey made landfall, so much has changed. There has even been some encouraging movement…

Tags: Disaster recovery, GLO, Harris County, Houston, Hurricane Harvey

Correction issued in our “Project Based Section 8 Housing: Across Houston and The Woodlands” report

Studies•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted August 30, 2019

An earlier version of our report “Project Based Section 8 Housing: Across Houston and The Woodlands” transposed the REAC scores,…

Tags: Section 8

Video: Examining how Texas reduced government-funded housing segregation

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 9, 2017

Did a fair housing suit actually cause the State of Texas to reduce racial segregation? That’s the question our recent…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, LIHTC, Tax credits, TDHCA

Where you live matters: Assessing unequal access to healthy environments

Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 7, 2016

[The following is adapted from a presentation to the National Fair Housing Alliance‘s national conference on June 27, 2016.] Where…

Tags: Environmental justice, Fair housing

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