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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.

State of the Nation’s Housing – it’s getting worse

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 27, 2008

I know I have been mostly blogging about problems lately. All of this negative housing news can be depressing. I…

Tags: Housing costs, Housing policy, Low income housing

Everything is bigger in Texas – except our housing trust fund

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 26, 2008

Looking over the latest report from Mary Brook’s Housing Trust Fund Project at the Center for Community Change makes me…

Tags: TDHCA, Texas Housing Trust Fund

Lingering concerns about Texas Hurricane Rita home rebuilding

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 25, 2008

I am supporting the the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs Round 2 plan for CDBG housing assistance for…

Tags: Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding, TDHCA

A honest critique of media foreclosure prevention pablum

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 24, 2008

My friend and sometimes colleague Robert Doggett eviscerates an example of the typical advice story the media dishes out to…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis

Texas Teachers Retirement Fund speculates in subprime mortgage backed securities

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 24, 2008

Demonstrating poor judgment the Texas Teacher’s Retirement Fund announced it is planning to invest $250 million of retirement funds of…

Tags: Subprime lending

Save the TX State Affordable Housing Corporation by giving it a new mission

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 23, 2008

On Tuesday, June 24 the Texas Sunset Commission will meet to make a recommendation to the next Texas Legislature whether…

Tags: Housing policy, TDHCA, TSAHC

Home builders object and Austin backs away from housing visitability requirements

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 22, 2008

June 18 was not an auspicious day in Austin housing rights history. Shortly before voting to adopt the anemic affordable…

Tags: Accessibility, Austin, Housing policy, Visitability

City of Austin’s affordable housing initiative fizzles out

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 21, 2008

An Austin City Council affordable housing initiative fizzled out early June 19 as the Council voted to adopt a PUD…

Tags: Austin, Housing incentives, Inclusionary zoning

Curbing substandard housing in rural Texas

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 20, 2008

Watch John Henneberger’s testimony before the Texas Seante International Relations and Trade Committee on substandard rural housing.  Read my written…

Tags: Building codes, Colonias, Rural housing, Substandard housing

City of Austin staff proposes housing cuts of over $6 million

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 19, 2008

My colleague, Karen Paup stays up to date on all the Austin housing issues and she has pointed out an…

Tags: Austin, Housing budget, Margaret Shaw

House flippers and scam artists prey on Houston poor

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 18, 2008

House flippers and scam artists prey upon low income Texans as they desperately struggle to find a home or try…

Tags: Contract for deed, House flippers, Mortgage fraud

Disgraceful indifference to substandard conditions in Houston

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 17, 2008

In an outstanding piece of investigative journalism Houston Chronicle staff writers Matt Stiles, Mike Snyder and Julio Cortez have exposed…

Tags: Housing codes, Substandard apartments, Substandard housing

An important role for state legislatures in the foreclosure crisis

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 16, 2008

Financial Institutions Committee Chairman Burt Solomon is reasonable and fair in approaching the issue of state regulation of financial institutions.…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosure, Mortgage brokers, Subprime lending

One perspective on the Texas foreclosure crisis

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 15, 2008

View Dr. James Gaines presentation [it takes a couple minutes to begin playing] before the Texas House financial institutions committee…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures, Subprime lending

Dealing (or not) with the foreclosure crisis in Texas

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 14, 2008

Watch Robert Doggett’s testimony before the Financial Services Committee, or better yet watch the entire hearing. On Wednesday Robert Doggett,…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Predatory lending, Subprime lending

National fixes for post disaster housing programs

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 13, 2008

I have posted the testimony I presented to Congress regarding how the federal government can betterprovide long-term housing disaster assistance…

Tags: Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane Rita, Post-disaster housing, TDHCA, Texas Grow Home

Understanding the role of GSEs, HUD and affordable housing in the subprime crisis

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 12, 2008

A page 1 story in the Washingtom Post Tuesday laid a major part of the blame for the subprime lending…

Tags: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSEs, Mortgage crisis, Subprime lending

At least we are better off than Mississippi and Alabama

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 11, 2008

Watch my testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Financial Service Committee, or, better yet,…

Tags: CDBG, Disaster recovery, Financial Services Committee, Hurricane Rita, TDHCA

Inclusionary zoning: background

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 10, 2008

After yesterday’s posting in which I discussed the use of inclusionary zoning several people asked me what inclusionary zoning is…

Tags: Economic integration, Elizabeth Mueller, Inclusionary housing, Inclusionary zoning, Racial integration

Recommendations for state action to prevent displacement of low income people from gentrifying neighborhoods

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 9, 2008

A group of us have been kicking around ideas to address the problem of the involuntary displacement of low income…

Tags: Displacement, Gentrification, Interim hearings

Cleaning house at the state

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 8, 2008

The June 5, 2008 compliance hearing video is 60 minutes. It provides a very useful overview of the issues surrounding…

Tags: housing compliance, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation, TSAHC

Let’s expand self-help housing across Texas

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 7, 2008

Texas has several of the nation’s leading self-help housing nonprofits who have been tremendously successful in producing highly cost-efficient self-help…

Tags: Self-help housing, TDHCA, Texas Bootstrap housing

Texas tempts fate and courts disaster

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 6, 2008

Is it that we Texans like living dangerously? Are we just slow to learn? Or are we the victims of…

Tags: Building codes, Hurricane Rita

TxLIHIS testimony on Senate housing studies

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 5, 2008

In an earlier post I listed the various studies related to housing being conducted by Texas Senate Committees during the…

Tags: Housing hearings, Texas housing studies, Texas Senate

FEMA and HUD: not who you would want to depend on to throw you a life preserver

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 4, 2008

The House Financial Services Committee called HUD and FEMA to testify about when the lead federal agencies for hurricane relief…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, Disaster relief, FEMA, HUD, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding, Katrina evacuees

Farewell Kristin

Activities•by John Henneberger•Posted June 4, 2008

After four years of dedicated work for the cause of promoting housing for the poor, Kristin Carlisle, development director and Housing Texas…

Tags: Kristin Carlisle, TxLIHIS

Texas House of Representatives studies housing

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 3, 2008

Two days ago I posted the interim studies being conducted on housing by the Texas Senate.  Let’s expand that list…

Tags: Housing hearings, Interim hearings, Texas House, Texas housing studies

Do Texas cities care about gentrification?

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 2, 2008

The problem of the displacement of low-income families from long-established inner city neighborhoods has become a major issue in the…

Tags: Displacement, Gentrification, Homestead preservation district, Speculation

TX Senate studies housing

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 1, 2008

In the previous post Karen Paup brought up the inclusionary zoning issue at the Texas Legislature.  I pointed out that…

Tags: Housing hearings, Texas housing studies, Texas Senate

We have not learned the lessons of Katrina

Activities, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted May 31, 2008

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding, Katrina evacuees, Low income survivors

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