This week, Texas Housers communications manager Michael Depland speaks with two members of Texas Tenants For Change – Myra and Beeper. The…
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A Little Louder Buzz Session #6: Breaking Down The QAP in 2023
As the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) ramps up its process to update the rules and scoring…
A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #5: Managing Code Violations in San Antonio
Code violations are supposed to help maintain safety and hold the powerful accountable on behalf of community members, however they…
A Little Louder Episode 48: Five Years Later, Harvey Forgotten Survivors Caucus Speaks
Hurricane Harvey landed on Texas shores five years ago this week, dropping a historic amount of rain and flooding on…
A Little Louder Episode 47: Homeowners Association fights against affordable housing
If you are fortunate enough to receive a housing choice voucher from the government, it can feel like a blessing.…
A Little Louder Episode 46: Intro to the Houser Academy
The genesis of any major change in social justice starts from the people. There is no substitute for lived experience;…
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 of…
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 no…
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 billion…
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 Bill…
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 discovered…
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 director…
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,…
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’…
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 the…
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’s…
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 Little…
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, we…
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 and…
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 in…
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 of…
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 the…
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 moratorium…
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 far…
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,…
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 and…
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 months…
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 the…
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 the…
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 carried…