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Author: John Henneberger

I started my commitment to housing justice for people and communities with low incomes in 1975 in Austin's Clarksville community. These years of working side-by-side with dedicated community leaders to find solutions to housing and community development challenges have taught me some things and I’m learning new things every day.

Five Years After Harvey: Disaster Recovery In Texas Is An Ongoing Disaster

Harvey Recovery, Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 26, 2022

In a series of blogs, Texas Housers is observing the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Harvey by examining the responses from…

Tags: Hurricane Harvey, Texas GLO

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #3: Treasury must clarify plan for recapturing Emergency Rent Assistance funds

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 29, 2022

The US Treasury Department oversees state and local government expenditures of federal Emergency Rent Assistance funds. Texas Housers has discovered…

Tags: buzz session, emergency rent assistance, evictions, Texas, unexpended funds, US Treasury Department

Texas cities and counties may lose up to $103M in emergency rent relief if they fail to act before March 31

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 4, 2022

Texas Housers issues an urgent plea to government officials in certain Texas cities and counties to act immediately before they…

Tags: emergency rent assistance, evictions, Housing news, rent relief, Texas

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session 1: Texas eviction crisis update

A Little Louder, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 24, 2022

Texas Housers’ co-director John Henneberger is joined by senior researcher Ben Martin in a new vlog to talk about the…

Tags: Ben Martin, buzz session, eviction rates, evictions, Texas, Texas eviction crisis, Texas Housers

HUD stopping State of Texas’s misuse of federal disaster mitigation funds is not about paperwork or politics, it’s about saying no to discrimination

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 14, 2022

There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigation…

Tags: CDBG, HUD, Texas GLO

February 21 Update: Governor Abbott and the Texas Legislature continue to fail to act to help Texas freeze survivors

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 21, 2021

Less than 48 hours after Texas Housers posted a blog entry challenging Texas government officials to take 5 critical actions…

Tags: Disaster recovery

Governor Abbott and Texas Legislators: you got us in this mess, here is what you must do to fix it

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 19, 2021

A monumental failure of Texas state government is responsible for a statewide power outage causing devastation of our economy and…

Tags: Disaster recovery

Three things President-elect Biden needs to do Jan 20 to keep Americans housed

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 14, 2021

Everyone needs a home. Never more so than during this pandemic. Past government efforts to keep Americans who can’t pay…

Tags: Biden Administration, Eviction, eviction moratorium, rent assistance

Podcast #33: A temporary eviction moratorium and $1.9B for rent relief is coming to Texas

A Little Louder•by John Henneberger•Posted December 28, 2020

Congress passed and President Trump signed a pandemic relief bill granting a month-long extension of the current federal eviction moratorium…

Tags: A Little Louder

Breaking news: TX Supreme Court issues emergency order on CDC eviction moratorium to protect Texas tenants

State issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted September 17, 2020

By a vote of 6-2 today the Texas Supreme Court has issued an emergency order setting out much needed clearer…

Tags: Chronovirus, covid-19, evictions, Texas Supreme Court

Texans are losing their homes because judges are not consistently enforcing CDC eviction moratorium order

State issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted September 15, 2020

A September 1 order by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prohibits landlords from evicting tenants from…

Tags: Coronavirus, Eviction

In alarming move toward mass displacement, Texas AG Ken Paxton says local governments cannot impose eviction moratoriums

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 7, 2020

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion today that local governmental entities operating under local emergency declarations cannot delay,…

Tags: covid-19, evictions, Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General

Calls on Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to allow a city council vote on temporary eviction moratorium

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 29, 2020

The Houston Chronicle reports that Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is refusing to put a moratorium on evictions before the Houston…

Tags: Coronavirus, covid-19, evection moratorium, evictions, Houston, Sylvester Turner

AFFH is the housing equivalent of cell phone videos in the George Floyd murder — the essential tool to expose racism

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 29, 2020

I am a third generation Texan who has spent most of my life investigating the role of government in racial…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFH

Substandard colonias are an enduring result of housing segregation that we can fix

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 27, 2020

The challenge of substandard colonias are not unique to the border or even our era, but are actually an age…

Tags: Colonias

Lawsuit by four Texas renters says State of Texas, HUD discriminate on race in Hurricane Harvey aid

Harvey Recovery•by John Henneberger•Posted October 14, 2019

Four South Texas renters filed a civil rights lawsuit last week in federal court alleging HUD and the State of…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Fair housing, GLO, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, State Action Plan, Substandard apartments, Texas, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

RAPIDO is now a proven solution for disaster home rebuilding that is rapid, efficient, and just – let’s use it!

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 7, 2019

On June 12, 2019 at an open house for the final RAPIDO test home in Houston, Texas Housers co-director John…

What “equity” in Hurricane Harvey drainage recovery means

Harvey Recovery•by John Henneberger•Posted February 14, 2019

The Houston Bayou Initiative invited me to present my views on what equity would look like in the allocation of…

The 8 things I’ve learned in my 40+ years in housing and community development

Activities, Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted September 7, 2018

I’m often asked to summarize what I have learned in my 40+ years of activism in the field of housing…

Tags: Affordable housing, Fair housing, Housing policy, Housing segregation, John Henneberger

Secretary Carson asks anybody to offer examples of housing discrimination HUD has ignored and pledges to be on it “like white on rice.” Here you go Mr. Secretary

National issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 18, 2018

HUD Secretary Ben Carson assured members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee three weeks ago that he and HUD…

Tags: ben carson, Fair housing, HUD

The goal of disaster recovery should be more than returning to normal

Activities, Harvey Recovery, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 9, 2018

I was honored to give the keynote at the 43rd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop on July 9 in…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Housing, Hurricane Harvey

Job announcement: Texas Houser Planner Analyst / Research Associate in Houston

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted June 4, 2018

Texas Housers has a immediate job opening for a Planner Analyst / Research Associate in our Houston office. DESCRIPTION This policy…

Tags: Job announcement

Lenwood Johnson, passionate, disruptive warrior for justice, dies

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted May 16, 2018

Lenwood Johnson, legendary Houston displacement opponent, community preservationist, good neighbor, public housing activist and a Texas Houser board member for…

NYT editorial on federal government’s failure to prevent states and cities from using federal dollars to perpetuate segregation

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted April 7, 2018

An editorial appears in Sunday’s New York Times on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.…

Sweeping new fair and affordable housing proposed by three Austin City Council members

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 4, 2018

Austin City Council members Garza, Renteria, and Casar have announced a sweeping progressive fair and affordable housing agenda. Here is…

Tags: Affordable housing, Austin, Fair housing

Clarksville’s story teaches lessons about Jim Crow, government racism and gentrification

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted February 28, 2018

Clarksville is a fading west Austin freedman’s community that can teach valuable lessons of the community struggle against the three…

A friendly city where the problems of race and equity go unacknowledged and unresolved

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 25, 2018

Lubbock proudly bills itself as “The Friendliest City in America.” The people of Lubbock are indeed friendly. Yet, like most…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing and Neighborhood Rights, Lubbock

President’s budget proposes massive cuts for Texas housing and community development

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted February 13, 2018

  Douglas Rice has posted a blog that estimates the impact President Trump’s budget on affordable housing in each state. In…

A big first step, yet questions remain as HUD announces $5 billion in federal disaster funds for Texas

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 17, 2017

(Editor’s note — This statement has been altered to incorporate the voice of our partner, Texas Appleseed) Meanwhile the White…

Tags: CDBG-DR, HUD, Hurricane Harvey, Texas

We demand HUD address City of Houston and Housing Authority violations of civil rights laws

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 14, 2017

The Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS) has told the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that it…

Tags: City of Houston, Civil rights, Fair housing, Houston, HUD, Infrastructure, Title VI

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