City of Austin’s affordable housing initiative fizzles out
An Austin City Council affordable housing initiative fizzled out early June 19 as the Council voted to adopt a PUDContinue Reading
An Austin City Council affordable housing initiative fizzled out early June 19 as the Council voted to adopt a PUDContinue Reading
Watch John Henneberger’s testimony before the Texas Seante International Relations and Trade Committee on substandard rural housing. Read my writtenContinue Reading
My colleague, Karen Paup stays up to date on all the Austin housing issues and she has pointed out anContinue Reading
House flippers and scam artists prey upon low income Texans as they desperately struggle to find a home or tryContinue Reading
In an outstanding piece of investigative journalism Houston Chronicle staff writers Matt Stiles, Mike Snyder and Julio Cortez have exposedContinue Reading
Financial Institutions Committee Chairman Burt Solomon is reasonable and fair in approaching the issue of state regulation of financial institutions.Continue Reading
View Dr. James Gaines presentation [it takes a couple minutes to begin playing] before the Texas House financial institutions committeeContinue Reading
Watch Robert Doggett’s testimony before the Financial Services Committee, or better yet watch the entire hearing. On Wednesday Robert Doggett,Continue Reading
I have posted the testimony I presented to Congress regarding how the federal government can betterprovide long-term housing disaster assistanceContinue Reading
A page 1 story in the Washingtom Post Tuesday laid a major part of the blame for the subprime lendingContinue Reading
Watch my testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Financial Service Committee, or, better yet,Continue Reading
After yesterday’s posting in which I discussed the use of inclusionary zoning several people asked me what inclusionary zoning isContinue Reading
A group of us have been kicking around ideas to address the problem of the involuntary displacement of low incomeContinue Reading
The June 5, 2008 compliance hearing video is 60 minutes. It provides a very useful overview of the issues surroundingContinue Reading
Texas has several of the nation’s leading self-help housing nonprofits who have been tremendously successful in producing highly cost-efficient self-helpContinue Reading
Is it that we Texans like living dangerously? Are we just slow to learn? Or are we the victims ofContinue Reading
In an earlier post I listed the various studies related to housing being conducted by Texas Senate Committees during theContinue Reading
The House Financial Services Committee called HUD and FEMA to testify about when the lead federal agencies for hurricane reliefContinue Reading
After four years of dedicated work for the cause of promoting housing for the poor, Kristin Carlisle, development director and Housing TexasContinue Reading
Two days ago I posted the interim studies being conducted on housing by the Texas Senate. Let’s expand that listContinue Reading
The problem of the displacement of low-income families from long-established inner city neighborhoods has become a major issue in theContinue Reading
In the previous post Karen Paup brought up the inclusionary zoning issue at the Texas Legislature. I pointed out thatContinue Reading
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)Continue Reading
I started my involvement with low income housing and community development in 1975. As a junior at the University ofContinue Reading