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Beyond the Moratorium: Eviction courts must use Community Navigation to get rent relief to tenants quickly

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted September 16, 2021

Following the Supreme Court ruling to end the CDC moratorium in August 2021, Texas Housers wrote a 5-Point Plan that…

Tags: community navigators, covid-19, eviction moratorium, rent relief

What Congress gets right in its Draft Housing Tax Credit Provisions

National issues•by •Posted September 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has made space for many of us to reconsider the “old ways of doing things.” From how…

Tags: LIHTC

CDC announces eviction moratorium extension for majority of renters until October 3rd

National issues, State issues•by •Posted August 4, 2021

The Biden Administration has announced that effective August 4th, 2021, the CDC moratorium on evictions will be extended through October…

Tags: CDC, covid-19, eviction moratorium

Bedbugs, security deposits, and the vision to ensure Texas tenant protections

State issues•by •Posted May 21, 2021

The unfortunate reality for tenants in Texas is that they are afforded very few protections. In fact, more bills have…

Tags: lease protections, pests, security deposit, Texas Legislature

Housers advocacy agenda focuses on basic protections for renters

State issues•by •Posted March 19, 2021

Texas renters need rights.  With a dwindling supply of affordable housing, add a global pandemic that has sparked a financial…

Tags: Texas Legislature

Fear of Foreclosure: How homeowners of color are struggling with the financial fallout of COVID-19 in Houston

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted March 16, 2021

People of color have historically faced systemic obstacles in access to homeownership, yet so many have still persevered to secure…

Tags: covid-19, Home foreclosures, homeownership

Houston’s grace period eviction ordinance was too late for too many. Here is how to fix that.

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted March 10, 2021

Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020, Texas Housers has advocated for a grace period ordinance in…

Tags: covid-19, Eviction moratoriums

Texas Housers has created a simple checklist of principles for equitable rent relief

National issues, State issues•by •Posted February 2, 2021

After nine months of working with cities and counties in Texas and observing partners across the country do the same,…

Tags: covid-19, rent relief

Texas Housers outlines goals to ensure 2021 is a year to advance housing justice

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by •Posted January 22, 2021

With the turn to a new year, people often look forward to the dawn of better days, great possibility and…

Tags: 2021, housing justice, mission statement

Texas COVID relief and eviction diversion programs could fall short if these major issues aren’t fixed

State issues•by •Posted January 5, 2021

Texas’s first statewide COVID-19 rental assistance program will kick off this January after months of government planning and public calls…

Tags: covid-19, eviction diversion program, evictions, rent relief

Texas Housers asks CFPB to strike unjust rule shielding banks from public scrutiny

National issues•by •Posted December 18, 2020

In July of 2020, Texas Housers posted on our blog about the lawsuit we filed alongside cities and fair housing…

Tags: CFPB, Fair housing

In vote to weaken incentives, TDHCA hurts chances for affordable housing in desirable areas

State issues•by •Posted November 24, 2020

Earlier this month, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs voted to change the rules for where low-income housing…

Tags: LIHTC, QAP, TDHCA

Podcast Episode 31: Housing Segregation, George Floyd, and Honoring True Housers

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by •Posted November 6, 2020

For Texas Housers’ latest podcast episode, John and I are experimenting with a new format. We’re discussing what we’re reading,…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, Texas Houser Awards

Podcast Episode 30: Who is this housing for and where does it go?

A Little Louder, State issues•by •Posted October 30, 2020

Every year, Texas receives millions of dollars in tax credits to help developers build affordable housing. It’s big money and…

Tags: Affordable housing, QAP, TDHCA

Texas Housers joins National Community Reinvestment Coalition lawsuit against CFPB to overturn rule allowing banks to hide their lending records

National issues•by •Posted July 30, 2020

This morning, Texas Housers, under the leadership of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group,…

Tags: CFPB, lawsuit, National community reinvestment coalition

Texas Housers creates equitable rental relief guidelines after speaking with local governments across the state

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by •Posted July 29, 2020

In response to the coronavirus pandemic and widespread economic turmoil, several major cities and counties in Texas have implemented direct…

Tags: cares act, featured, federal relief funds, Rental Relief

Fort Worth wants affordable housing and could have it, if the city strongly rejects NIMBY pitfalls

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted July 21, 2020

In late June 2020, Fort Worth City Council voted against a zoning change that would have likely secured tax credit…

Tags: Affordable housing, Fort Worth, NIMBY, TDHCA

Here is how Texas GLO must address systemic racial inequity through CDBG-MIT planning and disaster mitigation

National issues, State issues•by •Posted June 30, 2020

Racial prejudice is not simply expressed through interpersonal bigotry, but it is a systemic issue that has been intentionally built…

Tags: drainage, Racism, Texas GLO

Texas Housers is monitoring local government responses to COVID 19-induced housing crisis with new scorecard

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted June 9, 2020

The CARES Act — the federal stimulus signed into law on March 27, 2020 — authorized substantial fund transfers from…

Tags: covid-19, scorecard

These maps show San Antonio’s COVID-19 relief should address where the most vulnerable residents live

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted June 4, 2020

As the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic started to emerge this past spring, cities and states rushed to find relief…

Tags: covid-19, evictions, San Antonio

Coronavirus relief in Texas favors large cities and counties over rural areas at three-to-one rate

National issues, State issues•by •Posted May 26, 2020

Cities and counties in Texas with populations under 500,000 will receive relief funds at a much lower per capita rate…

Tags: covid-19

Texas Housers comments on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments outline the necessary action behind the city’s talk

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted April 20, 2020

On April 16, Texas Housers submitted comments alongside Texas Appleseed on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. Every…

Tags: AI, Fair housing, Houston

Tenants send letter to governor requesting ability to order groceries online with SNAP benefits during pandemic

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted April 17, 2020

(Note: Community navigator Ericka Bowman contributed to this blog) It is hard enough living in a food desert. Add a…

Tags: coronavirus, covid-19, Governor Greg Abbott, subsidized housing

Texas Housers calls on governor to provide bold leadership to help Texans keep their homes amid health crisis

State issues•by •Posted April 2, 2020

Gov. Greg Abbott announced yesterday that he and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs have taken initial action…

Tags: covid-19, Disaster relief, Governor Greg Abbott, Renters, TDHCA

Texas Housers sends governor, statewide officials housing recommendations to support Texans amid COVID-19 crisis

State issues•by •Posted April 1, 2020

Communities across Texas continue to grapple with widespread effects of COVID-19. The virus has upended community gatherings, closed schools, restaurants…

Tags: coronavirus, covid-19, Eviction, Foreclosure, Governor Greg Abbott, Housing

Podcast Episode 26: Don’t eat the toxic fish

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted March 6, 2020

For decades, federal, state and local officials knew that the fish in Donna Lake in the Rio Grande Valley carried…

Tags: ARISE, Donna Lake, Environmental justice, Environmental racism, EPA, Rio Grande Valley

Podcast episode 25: A Voice for San Antonio Renters

A Little Louder, Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted February 21, 2020

Nearly half of the city of San Antonio’s residents are renters, and the cost of renting an apartment in the…

Tags: Fair housing, Renters, San Antonio, Tenant rights

Moms4Housing is a model of how to center tenants on the path to housing justice

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted February 17, 2020

In early January 2020, Oakland group Moms4Housing was subjected to a militarized eviction from an unoccupied home it had taken…

Tags: Houston, HUD, Moms4Housing

Podcast Episode 24: Free Our People

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues•by •Posted February 7, 2020

In Texas, and across the country disability rights activists have demanded, worked for, and won improved transportation services, the right…

Tags: Accessibility, ADAPT of Texas, Civil rights, disability rights

Podcast Episode 23: The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted January 24, 2020

There is no question that the impetus for Congress passing and President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1968 Fair Housing…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Civil rights, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, Podcast

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