Reporter Karisa King’s full Texas housing story is out in the San Antonio Express News. It is a devastating expose…
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.Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas – NYTimes.com
Karisa King of the San Antonio Epress News has an incredibly researched and very disturbing story in Sunday’s New York…
Bo’s housing news clips: National home foreclosures and Galveston housing woes are top stories in recent weeks
Tuesday Report, April 17, 2012 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Wrangling between the Galveston Housing Authority…
Labor Secretary hosts ceremony honoring Cesar Chavez while slashing funds for housing farmworkers
The recognition offered yesterday to leaders of the farmworker movement by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was welcome. The event…
Bo’s housing news clips: Cost of living in Austin is ‘Out of Reach’ for most renters
Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service by Bo McCarver A few economists are now saying that the…
Falkenberg: Learning a lot from the Rankin debacle – Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg wrote her column today on former Harris County Housing Authority executive director Guy Rankin… When…
Coalition of conservative activists’ calls for consolidation of TDHCA and TSAHC
In a reprise of a plan decisively rejected by the Texas Legislature last session, a coalition of conservative public policy…
Court rules Texas Housing Tax Credit program violates Fair Housing Act
This morning a federal court ruled in a case filed by a Dallas fair housing organization that the way the State…
Bo’s housing clips: Battered by crisis, poor still find paths to home ownership
Compiled by Bo McCarver. Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service As default notices and foreclosures continue, the…
Brian Potashnik to restart work outside TX new court filing says | dallasnews.com Crime Blog
Dallas Morning News reporter Jason Trahan has blogged that a Texas low income housing tax credit developer at the center…
Austin American-Statesman: State should ask HNTB for a refund
The following editorial is from an editorial in today’s Austin-American Statesman. A state disaster relief contract has itself been declared…
Out of Reach: The Housing Wage in Context
On Wednesday TxLIHIS released Texas data from the annual national study of housing affordability “Out of Reach” prepared by the…
State report: 29% of TX first round HUD disaster funds drawn down, 0% 2nd round
Recent stories in the Austin American-Statesman, the Texas Tribune and the New York Times have chronicled the slow pace of…
Latest data shows TX minimum wage earners can’t afford half the rent on a typical apartment
According to a national report released today, the Housing Wage for Texas is $15.88. The Housing Wage is the hourly…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-13-2012
The Obama Administration promises zero-tolerance for infractions of mortgage rules negotiated in a settlement with big banks last month. Mortgages…
‘Homeless hotspots’ at South X Southwest stir controversy
A company has handed out mobile hotspots to homeless folks to walk around SXSW in Austin and people pay them…
Candidate for most outrageous quote of 2012: HNTB says Texas disaster recovery program is “on target and on budget”
Austin American Statesman reporter Brenda Bell has an amazing quote from HNTB in her story today about the HUD audit of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-6-2012
Another federal program to help beleaguered homeowners has fizzled: after two years, less than 3 percent of a $7.6 billion…
Federal Audit Questions $8 Million Paid to HNTB — General Land Office | The Texas Tribune
In the second article in as many days, Texas Tribune reporter Becca Aaronson has disclosed a HUD inspector general’s report…
Amid Finger-Pointing, Hurricane Relief for Texans Lags – NYTimes.com
The NYT ran a story written by Texas Tribune reporter Becca Aaronson on the state of disaster recovery in Texas… Nearly…
The Poverty of an Idea – NYTimes.com
An Op-Ed by Maurice Isserman, a professor of history in today’s NYT frames the competing views of poverty in the US quite…
Housing authority shake-up may be under way – Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle reports… Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday replaced the board chairman of the Harris County Housing Authority,…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-28-2012
Market analysts, eager to see silver linings after years of dark news, perceive a recovery in the housing industry as…
The Harris County Housing Authority gets motivated to act like the top 1 percent
If the previous blog post was not a sufficient indictment of the outrageous spending by the Harris County Housing Authority…
Harris County Housing Authority’s excesses exposed by Houston Chronicle
“Appalling. … One of the greater abuses of appointed office that I’ve seen,” Harris County Judge Ed Emmett told the Houston Chronicle. That does not…
The ‘Whitest town in North Texas’ fights to keep it that way
This might just be the ideal place to film a remake of “Birth Of A Nation,” D.W. Griffith’s silent film…
More Texas kids live in concentrated poverty than in any other state
What does it mean to a child to grow up in a neighborhood where poverty is concentrated? That is a…
New Texas state housing agency director discusses reorganization, relying on fewer, larger contractors
Tim Irvine, named executive director of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs just a couple of months ago,…
HUD boss Shaun Donovan jumps into President Obama mortgage melee – POLITICO.com
A story in Politico on the deal with the banks and HUD Secretary Donovan’s role is worth a read. I…
NYT picks up on public housing rent increase issue
I was surprised to hear from the New York Times editorial staff around noon Tuesday. They wanted to know about…