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Proposed Qualified Allocation Plan assisting households with incomes above HTC limits raises serious concerns

State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted August 2, 2022

Each year, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) updates the set of rules that guide the Low…

Tags: Affordable housing, LIHTC, QAP, TDHCA

REPORT: Soaring rents put affordable housing ‘Out Of Reach’ for low-income tenants in Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 28, 2022

Millions of Texan renters have been majorly impacted by landlords raising rents this year. Couple this with eviction case numbers…

Tags: Affordable housing, NLIHC, Out of Reach

A Little Louder Episode 47: Homeowners Association fights against affordable housing

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 1, 2022

If you are fortunate enough to receive a housing choice voucher from the government, it can feel like a blessing.…

Tags: denton, housing choice vouchers, Source of Income discrimination

Texas ERA programs are closing their doors, while need for rent relief is rising

Local issues, State issues•by Erin Hahn•Posted June 27, 2022

The Texas Rent Relief program, administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), closed its application portal…

Tags: ERA, evictions

A Little Louder Episode 46: Intro to the Houser Academy

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted June 17, 2022

The genesis of any major change in social justice starts from the people. There is no substitute for lived experience;…

Tags: A Little Louder

‘Case Dismissed!’ What does this mean for tenants in eviction hearings?

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted June 14, 2022

In Texas, tenants have few legal defenses against their landlords in eviction hearings. Tenants cannot countersue to hold their landlords…

Tags: evictions

A Little Louder Episode 45: Texas GLO and Discrimination

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 19, 2022

This week, HUD released its final determination that Texas GLO discriminated against Black and Hispanic Texans in its distribution of…

Tags: A Little Louder, CDBG MIT, Civil rights, Disaster recovery, Texas GLO

Read Texas Housers’ and Northeast Action Collective’s joint statement on HUD’s final determination of Texas GLO’s civil rights violation

Harvey Recovery, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 18, 2022

JOINT STATEMENT OF NORTHEAST ACTION COLLECTIVE AND TEXAS HOUSERS ON HUD’S ISSUANCE ON MAY 16 OF A FORMAL LETTER OF…

Tags: Disaster recovery

Last Month In Texas Evictions: Texas Housers’ May 2022 Special Newsletter

State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 17, 2022

Last Month inTexas Evictions We present this newsletter to keep you informed of the most important Texas eviction updates each…

Tags: evictions

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #4: Justices of the Peace are ignoring tenant protections

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 6, 2022

The power balance between tenants and landlords is usually tilted in the latter’s favor, and this is true in no…

Tags: A Little Louder, buzz session, evictions, jp court

Some Texas Justice of the Peace courts are ignoring protections designed to protect tenants, with eviction being the result

State issues•by Tori Tavormina•Posted May 3, 2022

Texas Housers’ Eviction Prevention Specialist Tori Tavormina has chronicled her observations overseeing the Courtwatch program in Harris County. Below is…

Tags: covid-19, ERA, evictions, justices of the peace

The Gap 2022 report details changes we urgently need to help extremely low-income renters

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 21, 2022

Every year, The Gap report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) details the lack of affordable housing for…

Tags: Tenant rights, The Gap

A Little Louder Episode 44: Issues with Texas Rent Relief

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 15, 2022

The Emergency Rental Assistance program (ERA) has distributed at least $2.5 billion in the state of Texas with $1.9 billion…

Tags: A Little Louder, evictions, San Antonio

A Little Louder Episode 43: What could a Tenant Bill of Rights do for San Antonio?

A Little Louder, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 6, 2022

Texas Housers, alongside community members and Texas Organizing Project, have all strongly declared that San Antonio needs a Tenant Bill…

Tags: A Little Louder, San Antonio, Tenant Bill Of Rights, Tenant rights

Texas Housers calls on HUD to address the dire conditions and racial disparities at Millennia Properties

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 4, 2022

Texas Housers’ years of work in Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) housing has informed us on how management operates when…

Tags: HUD, millenia, sandpiper cove, Tenant rights

San Antonio needs a Tenant Bill of Rights. Here is where we start.

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 1, 2022

Tenants in Texas need a change. In our state, the most basic rights for millions of renter households are not…

Tags: San Antonio, Tenant Bill Of Rights, Tenant rights

Texas Housers calls on State of Texas to dismantle racial residential exclusion through the housing tax credit program

State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 30, 2022

Texas Housers believes the locational decisions the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) adopts for selecting sites for…

Tags: Fair housing, High Opportunity Areas, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, residential racial segregation, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

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

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session 2: Lessons to learn from COVID

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 24, 2022

In our latest Buzz Session from A Little Louder, host John Henneberger sits with Texas Housers’ Southeast Texas regional director…

Tags: A Little Louder, buzz session, covid-19, eviction diversion program, evictions, rent relief

Update on ERA in Texas (VIDEO)

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 16, 2022

This Buzz Session from A Little Louder is an exclusive video from Housers’ research analyst Erin Hahn. In the clip,…

Tags: A Little Louder, ERA, evictions, rent relief

Justices of the Peace in Texas should make these best practices permanent to establish equality in eviction court

State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 15, 2022

With most Covid-era tenant protections coming to an end, Texas Housers is calling on Justices of the Peace in our…

Tags: covid-19, eviction court, evictions, justices of the peace

Houston PATCHwork and these district profiles show the stark difference in affordable housing availability across the largest city in Texas

Local issues•by Julia Orduña•Posted March 10, 2022

Texas Housers is a proud member of the Houston Organizing Movement for Equity (HOME) Coalition, a diverse coalition of community-based…

Tags: HOME coalition, Houston, Renter Profiles, Tenant rights

A Little Louder Episode 42: Expanding The Rights of Tenants In Austin with BASTA

A Little Louder, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 10, 2022

On this episode, John is joined by Shoshana Krieger of BASTA Austin who stops by to talk about the fights for tenants’…

Tags: A Little Louder, Austin, BASTA, Tenant rights

HUD finds that Texas GLO discriminated against communities of color in $4 billion CDBG-MIT program

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 8, 2022

In a historic victory for communities of color in Houston and the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban…

Tags: CDBG, CDBG MIT, Disaster recovery, HUD, Texas GLO

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

WATCH: Texas Housers joins Houston organizers for ‘Preventing Eviction: Beyond The Crisis’ livestream

State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 24, 2022

Housing insecurity has been one of the biggest issues to face Americans during the pandemic. Renters across the nation who…

Tags: covid-19, evictions, livestream

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

Texas Housers new Eviction Case Dashboard expands the picture of what tenants in danger of displacement face

State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 25, 2022

Texas Housers has officially launched our Texas Eviction Case dashboard as a part of our Texas Eviction Diversion Tracker. Alongside…

Tags: dashboard, ERA, evictions, featured

Watch ‘Texas Housers 2021 Video Rewind’ as we spotlight the unique voices who fought for housing justice

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 20, 2022

We are starting off 2022 in a big way with a few videos highlighting what the last year looked like for Texas…

Tags: CourtWatch, evictions, featured, housing choice voucher, Houston, public housing, San Antonio, 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

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