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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.

Published in Shelterforce: Rules for Radicals to Demand a Fair and Transformative Disaster Recovery

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted November 7, 2017

This piece was published in Shelterforce on Nov. 2, 2017. At Texas Housers, we’ve confronted a series of natural disasters…

We are looking for four people who want to work with us for a just and equitable disaster recovery

Activities, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 27, 2017

Texas Housers is looking for four talented and dedicated people to work for housing justice with our team. The job…

Tags: Disaster relief, Hurricane Harvey, jobs

Hurricane Harvey recovery: latest updates and intelligence

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 10, 2017

Texas Housers is tracking, reporting and blogging about Hurricane Harvey recovery. Let us know if there is something we should…

Tags: Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane rebuilding

A better way to speed recovery from Harvey, by Texas A&M Prof. Shannon Van Zandt

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted September 3, 2017

Pictured above, Professors Walt Peacock and Shannon Van Zandt of the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction and Recover Center at a…

Videos of TRLA attorneys offer advice for recovering from Hurricane Harvey

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted September 2, 2017

Texas Housers is teaming up with attorneys from Texas RioGrande Legal Aid to produce a series of short videos providing…

We have a job opening to steer our new Northwest Texas office

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 21, 2017

We are excited to announce that Texas Housers is setting up a new Northwest Texas office in Fort Worth to…

Tags: Fort Worth, Job announcement, Texas Housers

Recommendations for getting the most out of Austin’s proposed CodeNEXT density bonus program

Local issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2017

The CodeNEXT Density Bonus is a remarkable opportunity to achieve greater ethnic, racial and economic diversity and integration in Austin. If…

Tags: Austin, CodeNext, Fair housing

Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions former Houston housing director on his support for unprecedented federal budget cuts

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 19, 2017

Sen. Elizabeth Warren closely questioned Neal Rackleff, the former housing director in Houston and President Trump’s nominee for HUD Assistant…

Tags: Elizabeth Warren, HUD, Neal Rackleff

49 years after Dr. King’s death, Austin leaders offer a sweeping blueprint to racially integrate neighborhoods

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 4, 2017

  Forty-nine years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today Austin is proclaiming, in a manner that…

Tags: Austin, Fair housing, Housing segregation, Integration, Mayor's Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequalities, racial segregation, Residential Segregation

SAD FAKE NEWS: OMB Director vows “Nobody’s going to be kicked out of their houses”

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 18, 2017

A reporter asked President Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney a question at a press conference at the…

Tags: CDBG, housing choice vouchers, HUD, HUD budget, public housing

Estimates of housing voucher cuts for each Texas city under President’s budget

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 17, 2017

Thanks to research by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, we can now see the effects that President Trump’s proposed…

Tags: housing choice vouchers, public housing, Public housing authorities, Section 8, Texas

Health inequalities are strongly reflected in Houston’s residential racial segregation

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 5, 2017

Neighborhood inequality is most often measured by an area’s physical and economic characteristics. Yet health inequalities between neighborhoods receive less attention…

Tags: Health, Houston, Residential Segregation

Texas 7th, Houston 3rd worst nationally among states, cities in housing affordability for poor

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 4, 2017

For many years Texans have consoled ourselves that while our state had a disproportionate number of families with extremely low incomes, at least…

Tags: Housing crisis, housing need, Houston, Texas, Texas housing affordability

Video: Texas Housers board member Dr. Shannon Van Zandt on colonia social vulnerability and disaster recovery

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 3, 2017

Our board member Dr. Shannon Van Zandt, a professor and interim head of Texas A&M University’s Landscape Architecture and Urban…

Tags: Colonias, Hurricane Dolly, RAPIDO, Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University

Court rules for colonia residents over FEMA denial of post-disaster home repair help

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 23, 2017

Our friends at La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) have been waging a multi-year…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, FEMA, La Union del Pueblo Entero, LUPE, TRLA

Looking for a place to live without “bullets flying through the property”

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 22, 2017

A University of Texas law professor and community leaders recently spoke with tenants at an apartment complex in Sunnyside, a historically…

Tags: Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, LIHTC, segregation, source of income, Sunnyside, Texas Legislature

Suit filed to overturn Texas prohibition on source of income protection for voucher holders

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

In Texas, there is a law formally protecting landlord discrimination against people with housing vouchers, most of whom are African-American. A lawsuit filed Thursday in…

Tags: Fair housing, Housing Discrimination, Inclusive Communities Project, Section 8, Texas Apartment Association, Texas Legislature

Proclaiming defiance of housing desegregation order, Houston mayor takes a small step to end the practice

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 15, 2017

It is really hard to figure out Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s position on racial housing segregation in government-assisted housing. He…

Tags: Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, Houston Housing Authority, HUD, Sylvester Turner

Houston area representative, pledging to ‘Stop Low-Income Government Housing,’ files bill

State issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted February 13, 2017

Elected on a pledge to “Stop Low-Income Government Housing” (see campaign ad above),  Real Estate Broker and State Representative Valoree…

Tags: Fair housing, Harris County, Houston, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, NIMBY, Texas Legislature, Valoree Swanson

A plan for increasing Austin’s affordable housing, racial and economic diversity

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 5, 2017

Austin is experiencing a moment of anxiety and introspection unlike any I have seen since I came here 44 years…

Tags: Austin

Houston mayor Sylvester Turner rejects compliance with federal order to end segregation of government-subsidized housing

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted January 29, 2017

Government-subsidized housing in Houston is among the most racially and economically segregated in the country thanks in large part to…

Lincoln Property Company, country’s second largest apartment manager, hit with racial discrimination lawsuit

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted January 24, 2017

The Dallas-based Inclusive Communities Project (ICP) has filed suit in federal district court against one of Texas’ largest property management…

Tags: Discrimination, Fair housing, ICP

Sweeping federal investigation finds City of Houston’s housing segregation violates Civil Rights Act

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 18, 2017

Racial housing segregation in Houston is no accident. It is not voluntary on the part of Houstonians of color. It is…

Tags: Civil rights, Fair Housing Act, Houston, HUD, segregation

Video: 10 ways to invest in the forgotten America and rebuild rural communities post-election

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted November 30, 2016

I gave this speech at the Housing Assistance Council Rural Housing Conference in Washington, D.C. on November 30. Watch the full…

Tags: Colonias, Fair housing, Rural housing, segregation

A post-election question: “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted November 16, 2016

I gave this speech before a group of community leaders and academics in Austin on November 15, reflecting on recent…

Tags: Election

Fair housing case produces lasting changes for Texas and nation

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted September 26, 2016

This piece originally ran on Shelterforce Magazine’s Rooflines blog. The Inclusive Communities project has now filed a motion and brief…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, ICP, Shelterforce, supreme court

Houston flooding plan fails to provide needed investment or protect civil rights

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted August 23, 2016

On August 18, 2016, I provided testimony at a public hearing over the City of Houston’s draft Action Plan for Community…

Tags: drainage, Flooding, Houston, Infrastructure

Stirring call for fair housing in Houston Chronicle editorial

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 7, 2016

The Houston Chronicle editorial board wrote a powerful column in support of fair housing in Sunday’s edition. We would not normally quote…

Tags: Affordable housing, Fair housing, Fountainview, Houston, Houston Chronicle

City of Houston, [bc]Workshop, TOP deserve the national recognition for engaging community and consumers to design better homes

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 14, 2016

Congratulations to our friends and partners at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP [bc], Texas Organizing Project (TOP) and to the City of Houston Housing and…

Tags: bcWorkshop, Design, HUD, TOP

State interference threatens Galveston’s promise of equitable disaster recovery

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 14, 2016

Eight years ago, Galveston was devastated by Hurricane Ike. Four years ago, at the urging of the Texas General Land…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Fair housing, Galveston, GLO, HUD

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