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Category: A Little Louder

A Little Louder Episode 52: From Eviction Courts to the Capitol (Part 2)

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 22, 2023

A Little Louder is back to talk about the latest in housing from the 88th Session. Texas Housers has been…

Tags: A Little Louder, lege23, Texas Legislature

A Little Louder Episode 51: Housers and Allies at the Capitol (Part 1)

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 1, 2023

This supersized episode of A Little Louder features two special guests to talk about bills affecting low-income households at the…

Tags: A Little Louder, lege23, Texas Legislature

A Little Louder Episode 50: What’s happening in housing at the 2023 Texas Legislature?

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 20, 2023

It’s a new year and a new session, the 88th to be exact, of the Texas Legislature. Communications Manager Michael…

Tags: A Little Louder, lege23, Tenant rights, Texas Legislature

A Little Louder Buzz Session #7: How did ERA really perform in Texas?

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 13, 2022

The Department of Treasury launched its Emergency Rental Assistance Program in March of 2021 with Texas receiving $2.4 billion dollars…

Tags: A Little Louder, ERA, evictions, US Treasury Department

A Little Louder Episode 49: Let’s Meet Texas Tenants For Change

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted November 23, 2022

This week, Texas Housers communications manager Michael Depland speaks with two members of Texas Tenants For Change â€“ Myra and Beeper. The…

Tags: A Little Louder, Houser Academy, lege23, Tenant rights, Texas Legislature

A Little Louder Buzz Session #6: Breaking Down The QAP in 2023

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 7, 2022

As the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) ramps up its process to update the rules and scoring…

Tags: 2023 QAP, A Little Louder, QAP, TDHCA

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #5: Managing Code Violations in San Antonio

A Little Louder, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 8, 2022

Code violations are supposed to help maintain safety and hold the powerful accountable on behalf of community members, however they…

Tags: A Little Louder, buzz session, San Antonio, SAPMC

A Little Louder Episode 48: Five Years Later, Harvey Forgotten Survivors Caucus Speaks

A Little Louder, Harvey Recovery•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 2, 2022

Hurricane Harvey landed on Texas shores five years ago this week, dropping a historic amount of rain and flooding on…

Tags: A Little Louder, Disaster recovery, Harvey Forgotten Survivor Caucus, Hurricane Harvey

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

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;…

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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

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

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

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

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

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

A Little Louder Podcast Episode 40: Demolition Deluge in San Antonio

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 10, 2021

A Little Louder is back with our latest episode and we are talking demolitions in San Antonio. On this week’s…

Tags: A Little Louder, Demolitions, San Antonio

A Little Louder Podcast Episode 39: Five things that need fixing in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted November 22, 2021

John is back in the booth for a new episode of A Little Louder! On this episode of A Little…

Tags: A Little Louder, Affordable housing, LIHTC

A Little Louder Podcast Episode 38: The American Rescue Plan Act and Tenants’ Rights

A Little Louder, State issues•by Michael Depland•Posted November 5, 2021

John is back in the booth for a new episode of A Little Louder! On the show the time, we…

Tags: A Little Louder, ARPA, ERA, rent relief, Texas Legislature

Podcast Episode 37: ERA and the Eviction Crisis in Texas

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 7, 2021

On our latest episode of A Little Louder, John is joined by several Housers to talk about rent relief and…

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

Podcast Episode 36: Who Can Afford The Rent In Texas?

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 14, 2021

The National Low Income Housing Coalition has released its Out of Reach report for 2021 and John and Christina are back in…

Tags: A Little Louder, NLIHC, Out of Reach

Podcast Episode 35: Eviction Courtwatch During COVID-19

A Little Louder, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted June 8, 2021

The CDC Eviction Moratorium should protect many individuals who appear before a Justice of the Peace due to non-payment of…

Tags: CDC, covid-19, eviction moratorium

Podcast Episode 34: President Biden’s Executive Orders On Housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 29, 2021

It’s a new year and a new administration has moved into the White House. On the first day of the…

Tags: A Little Louder, AFFH, Fair Housing Act, HUD

Podcast #33: A temporary eviction moratorium and $1.9B for rent relief is coming to Texas

A Little Louder•by John Henneberger•Posted December 28, 2020

Congress passed and President Trump signed a pandemic relief bill granting a month-long extension of the current federal eviction moratorium…

Tags: A Little Louder

Podcast Episode 32: Searching For A Landlord To Take My Voucher

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 4, 2020

Housing vouchers should be the empowering ticket to housing peace of mind of low-income families and individuals. However, for far…

Tags: A Little Louder, Dallas, Source of Income discrimination

Podcast Episode 31: Housing Segregation, George Floyd, and Honoring True Housers

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by •Posted November 6, 2020

For Texas Housers’ latest podcast episode, John and I are experimenting with a new format. We’re discussing what we’re reading,…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, Texas Houser Awards

Podcast Episode 30: Who is this housing for and where does it go?

A Little Louder, State issues•by •Posted October 30, 2020

Every year, Texas receives millions of dollars in tax credits to help developers build affordable housing. It’s big money and…

Tags: Affordable housing, QAP, TDHCA

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