In an earlier post I listed the various studies related to housing being conducted by Texas Senate Committees during the…
FEMA and HUD: not who you would want to depend on to throw you a life preserver
The House Financial Services Committee called HUD and FEMA to testify about when the lead federal agencies for hurricane relief…
Farewell Kristin
After four years of dedicated work for the cause of promoting housing for the poor, Kristin Carlisle, development director and Housing Texas…
Texas House of Representatives studies housing
Two days ago I posted the interim studies being conducted on housing by the Texas Senate. Let’s expand that list…
Do Texas cities care about gentrification?
The problem of the displacement of low-income families from long-established inner city neighborhoods has become a major issue in the…
TX Senate studies housing
In the previous post Karen Paup brought up the inclusionary zoning issue at the Texas Legislature. I pointed out that…
Inclusionary zoning redux
The Texas Legislature last session made inclusionary zoning unlawful except in very limited circumstances. Inclusionary zoning is an essential tool…
We have not learned the lessons of Katrina
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)…
32 years in low income housing in Texas
I started my involvement with low income housing and community development in 1975. As a junior at the University of…