The US Treasury Department oversees state and local government expenditures of federal Emergency Rent Assistance funds. Texas Housers has discoveredContinue Reading
Texas Housers issues an urgent plea to government officials in certain Texas cities and counties to act immediately before theyContinue Reading
Texas Housers’ co-director John Henneberger is joined by senior researcher Ben Martin in a new vlog to talk about theContinue Reading
There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigationContinue Reading
Less than 48 hours after Texas Housers posted a blog entry challenging Texas government officials to take 5 critical actionsContinue Reading
A monumental failure of Texas state government is responsible for a statewide power outage causing devastation of our economy andContinue Reading
Everyone needs a home. Never more so than during this pandemic. Past government efforts to keep Americans who can’t payContinue Reading
Congress passed and President Trump signed a pandemic relief bill granting a month-long extension of the current federal eviction moratoriumContinue Reading
By a vote of 6-2 today the Texas Supreme Court has issued an emergency order setting out much needed clearerContinue Reading
A September 1 order by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prohibits landlords from evicting tenants fromContinue Reading
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion today that local governmental entities operating under local emergency declarations cannot delay,Continue Reading
The Houston Chronicle reports that Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is refusing to put a moratorium on evictions before the HoustonContinue Reading
I am a third generation Texan who has spent most of my life investigating the role of government in racialContinue Reading
The challenge of substandard colonias are not unique to the border or even our era, but are actually an ageContinue Reading
Four South Texas renters filed a civil rights lawsuit last week in federal court alleging HUD and the State ofContinue Reading
On June 12, 2019 at an open house for the final RAPIDO test home in Houston, Texas Housers co-director JohnContinue Reading
The Houston Bayou Initiative invited me to present my views on what equity would look like in the allocation ofContinue Reading
I’m often asked to summarize what I have learned in my 40+ years of activism in the field of housingContinue Reading
HUD Secretary Ben Carson assured members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee three weeks ago that he and HUDContinue Reading
I was honored to give the keynote at the 43rd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop on July 9 inContinue Reading
Texas Housers has a immediate job opening for a Planner Analyst / Research Associate in our Houston office. DESCRIPTION This policyContinue Reading
Lenwood Johnson, legendary Houston displacement opponent, community preservationist, good neighbor, public housing activist and a Texas Houser board member forContinue Reading
An editorial appears in Sunday’s New York Times on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.Continue Reading
Austin City Council members Garza, Renteria, and Casar have announced a sweeping progressive fair and affordable housing agenda. Here isContinue Reading
Clarksville is a fading west Austin freedman’s community that can teach valuable lessons of the community struggle against the threeContinue Reading
Lubbock proudly bills itself as “The Friendliest City in America.” The people of Lubbock are indeed friendly. Yet, like mostContinue Reading
Douglas Rice has posted a blog that estimates the impact President Trump’s budget on affordable housing in each state. InContinue Reading
(Editor’s note — This statement has been altered to incorporate the voice of our partner, Texas Appleseed) Meanwhile the WhiteContinue Reading
The Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS) has told the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that itContinue Reading
This piece was published in Shelterforce on Nov. 2, 2017. At Texas Housers, we’ve confronted a series of natural disastersContinue Reading