Texas Housers has a new leader in Quiana Fisher, and on our latest episode of A Little Louder, we sat…
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Texas Housers has its own podcast! Featuring deep dives, interviews, and more, ‘A Little Louder’ is our podcast that focuses on subjects related to housing equity and justice.
A Little Louder Episode 77: What Texas’ largest cities tell us about evictions and affordability
Texas Housers’ top researchers Erin Hahn and Sidney Beaty join A Little Louder to talk about their new interactive projects.…
A Little Louder Episode 76: Wrapping Up The 2025 Texas Legislature
We’ve come to the end of the 89th Session of the Texas Legislature and we’re joined by Texas Housers’ research…
A Little Louder Episode 75: Houston’s potential catastrophe around disaster recovery dollars
Hurricane Beryl and the May 2024 derecho showed the powerful and long lasting effects that a wide range of weather…
A Little Louder Episode 74: How aging Texans face issues with affordable housing
On this episode, Kathy Green from AARP Texas joins the show to talk about how affordable and low-income housing issues…
A Little Louder Episode 73: Breaking down HB 32 and SB 38 (aka the Eviction Bills)
Texas Housers is tracking several housing bills at the 2025 Texas Legislature, some good and some bad. However, one piece…
A Little Louder Episode 72: Diving into the massive eviction hub of Houston
Houston is a cross-section of so many factors when it comes to low-income housing. It is the fourth-largest city in…
A Little Louder Episode 71: Back to the Capitol for the 89th Texas Legislature
Our first episode of 2025 is a running start right into the 89th Session of the Texas Legislature and there…
A Little Louder Episode 70: Our biggest stories (and some you might have missed) from 2024
In a supersized episode, we leave 2024 with a bang. Michael Depland speaks with the staff of Texas Housers to…
A Little Louder Episode 69: What data in Dallas tells about the future of affordable housing
The need for affordable housing for low-income households is one of the most pressing issues Texans face today. And thanks…
A Little Louder Episode 68: Land use deregulation and its limitations on achieving housing affordability
The shortage of affordable housing is one of the largest crises facing low-income households in our state, if not the…
A Little Louder Episode 67: Replacement Reserves restore aging properties. But where are they actually going?
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program (LIHTC) is the largest creator of affordable housing in our state. As these tax…
A Little Louder Episode 66: How Food and Housing Insecurity Connect
As we work to serve low-income communities, it’s important to recognize that they often are dealing with more than one…
A Little Louder Episode 65: Let’s Talk Disaster Recovery LIVE
Live from the NLIHC’s Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition convening in Washington D.C., our Southeast Regional Director Julia Orduña speaks with…
A Little Louder Episode 64: How to make your city your home via advocacy
Across the state of Texas, there are individuals and organizations sparking small movements for change, working hard to band together…
A Little Louder Episode 63: How we would fix ‘A.I.’, meaning the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing
Only twice in a decade, Texas reviews its status on fair housing. State officials evaluate how they are affirmatively furthering…
A Little Louder Episode 62: What’s wrong at Bexar Creek Apartments?
Tenants coming together to organize against poor living condition is the first step and strongest base a renter can make…
A Little Louder Episode 61: Unmasking Ownership at Problem Properties
Over the past six months, Texas Housers has spotlighted the stories of uninhabitable conditions and mass evictions at Cabo San Lucas apartments…
A Little Louder Episode 60: Tenant’s Rights From Nepal To Denton
While most folks in the housing justice community have a strong idea of how tenant’s rights and evictions shape our…
A Little Louder Episode 59: How do we fix what renters are facing in San Antonio?
Annually, Texas Housers’ team in San Antonio releases its San Antonio District Renter Profiles to deliver a snapshot of how affordable rental…
A Little Louder Episode 58: How Texas renters live under extreme heat
High summer temperatures in the Lone Star State are a regular occurrence. However, in recent years, extreme heat has grown…
A Little Louder Episode 57: Six years past Harvey, recovery troubles remain
Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Coast six years ago this week, back in 2017. And though certain immediate response efforts…
A Little Louder Episode 56: Mass evictions at Cabo San Lucas
In late July, Texas Housers was alerted to a property in Houston that had planned to evict more than 100…
A Little Louder Episode 55: 2023 Texas Legislature Mega Wrap Up And What Comes Next
Communications Director Michael Depland and Research Director Ben Martin team up for one last trip to the Texas Legislature. On…
A Little Louder Episode 54: Highway Expansion and Stop TxDOT I-45 in Houston
Since the innovation of major highways in the mid-20th century, there has been a legacy of erasure and erosion of…
A Little Louder Episode 53: Midway Update at the 88th Session
In this halftime report from the 88th Session of the Texas Legislature, or perhaps a little later in the game,…
A Little Louder Episode 52: From Eviction Courts to the Capitol (Part 2)
A Little Louder is back to talk about the latest in housing from the 88th Session. Texas Housers has been…
A Little Louder Episode 51: Housers and Allies at the Capitol (Part 1)
This supersized episode of A Little Louder features two special guests to talk about bills affecting low-income households at the…
A Little Louder Episode 50: What’s happening in housing at the 2023 Texas Legislature?
It’s a new year and a new session, the 88th to be exact, of the Texas Legislature. Communications Manager Michael…
A Little Louder Buzz Session #7: How did ERA really perform in Texas?
The Department of Treasury launched its Emergency Rental Assistance Program in March of 2021 with Texas receiving $2.4 billion dollars…