A Little Louder Episode 45: Texas GLO and Discrimination
This week, HUD released its final determination that Texas GLO discriminated against Black and Hispanic Texans in its distribution ofContinue Reading
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A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #4: Justices of the Peace are ignoring tenant protections
The power balance between tenants and landlords is usually tilted in the latter’s favor, and this is true in noContinue Reading
A Little Louder Episode 44: Issues with Texas Rent Relief
The Emergency Rental Assistance program (ERA) has distributed at least $2.5 billion in the state of Texas with $1.9 billionContinue Reading
A Little Louder Episode 43: What could a Tenant Bill of Rights do for San Antonio?
Texas Housers, alongside community members and Texas Organizing Project, have all strongly declared that San Antonio needs a Tenant BillContinue Reading
A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #3: Treasury must clarify plan for recapturing Emergency Rent Assistance funds
The US Treasury Department oversees state and local government expenditures of federal Emergency Rent Assistance funds. Texas Housers has discoveredContinue Reading
A Little Louder Video Buzz Session 2: Lessons to learn from COVID
In our latest Buzz Session from A Little Louder, host John Henneberger sits with Texas Housers’ Southeast Texas regional directorContinue Reading
Update on ERA in Texas (VIDEO)
This Buzz Session from A Little Louder is an exclusive video from Housers’ research analyst Erin Hahn. In the clip,Continue Reading
A Little Louder Episode 42: Expanding The Rights of Tenants In Austin with BASTA
On this episode, John is joined by Shoshana Krieger of BASTA Austin who stops by to talk about the fights for tenants’Continue Reading
A Little Louder Video Buzz Session 1: Texas eviction crisis update
Texas Housers’ co-director John Henneberger is joined by senior researcher Ben Martin in a new vlog to talk about theContinue Reading
A Little Louder Podcast Episode 40: Demolition Deluge in San Antonio
A Little Louder is back with our latest episode and we are talking demolitions in San Antonio. On this week’sContinue Reading
A Little Louder Podcast Episode 39: Five things that need fixing in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program
John is back in the booth for a new episode of A Little Louder! On this episode of A LittleContinue Reading
A Little Louder Podcast Episode 38: The American Rescue Plan Act and Tenants’ Rights
John is back in the booth for a new episode of A Little Louder! On the show the time, weContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 37: ERA and the Eviction Crisis in Texas
On our latest episode of A Little Louder, John is joined by several Housers to talk about rent relief andContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 36: Who Can Afford The Rent In Texas?
The National Low Income Housing Coalition has released its Out of Reach report for 2021 and John and Christina are back inContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 35: Eviction Courtwatch During COVID-19
The CDC Eviction Moratorium should protect many individuals who appear before a Justice of the Peace due to non-payment ofContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 34: President Biden’s Executive Orders On Housing
It’s a new year and a new administration has moved into the White House. On the first day of theContinue Reading
Podcast #33: A temporary eviction moratorium and $1.9B for rent relief is coming to Texas
Congress passed and President Trump signed a pandemic relief bill granting a month-long extension of the current federal eviction moratoriumContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 32: Searching For A Landlord To Take My Voucher
Housing vouchers should be the empowering ticket to housing peace of mind of low-income families and individuals. However, for farContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 31: Housing Segregation, George Floyd, and Honoring True Housers
For Texas Housers’ latest podcast episode, John and I are experimenting with a new format. We’re discussing what we’re reading,Continue Reading
Podcast Episode 30: Who is this housing for and where does it go?
Every year, Texas receives millions of dollars in tax credits to help developers build affordable housing. It’s big money andContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 29: The Trouble With PFCs
After taking the summer off, A Little Louder is back on the air! Though there are only a few monthsContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 28: The COVID-19 housing crisis
The news cycle under COVID-19 has operated at a breakneck pace. For many, it’s been difficult to track what theContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 27: Addressing ‘The Gap’ for Low-Income Renters
Last week, the National Low Income Housing Coalition published their 2020 edition of The Gap report, which annually evaluates theContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 26: Don’t eat the toxic fish
For decades, federal, state and local officials knew that the fish in Donna Lake in the Rio Grande Valley carriedContinue Reading
Podcast episode 25: A Voice for San Antonio Renters
Nearly half of the city of San Antonio’s residents are renters, and the cost of renting an apartment in theContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 24: Free Our People
In Texas, and across the country disability rights activists have demanded, worked for, and won improved transportation services, the rightContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 23: The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing
There is no question that the impetus for Congress passing and President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1968 Fair HousingContinue Reading
Podcast Episode 22: Creosote in the Greater Fifth Ward
The Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens areas of Houston are historic Black neighborhoods where families have proudly planted roots forContinue Reading
Episode 21: The Stink Of Unequal Sewage
Housing inequality can often manifest in ways that many do not think of and some take for granted. For example,Continue Reading
Episode 20: A Look At RAD Conversion
In 2012, Congress authorized some public housing agencies to convert units from their original federally-funded public housing developments to project-based Section 8Continue Reading