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Category: A Little Louder

Podcast Episode 27: Addressing ‘The Gap’ for Low-Income Renters

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues•by Michael Depland•Posted March 20, 2020

Last week, the National Low Income Housing Coalition published their 2020 edition of The Gap report, which annually evaluates the…

Tags: A Little Louder, NLIHC, The Gap

Podcast Episode 26: Don’t eat the toxic fish

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted March 6, 2020

For decades, federal, state and local officials knew that the fish in Donna Lake in the Rio Grande Valley carried…

Tags: ARISE, Donna Lake, Environmental justice, Environmental racism, EPA, Rio Grande Valley

Podcast episode 25: A Voice for San Antonio Renters

A Little Louder, Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted February 21, 2020

Nearly half of the city of San Antonio’s residents are renters, and the cost of renting an apartment in the…

Tags: Fair housing, Renters, San Antonio, Tenant rights

Podcast Episode 24: Free Our People

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues•by •Posted February 7, 2020

In Texas, and across the country disability rights activists have demanded, worked for, and won improved transportation services, the right…

Tags: Accessibility, ADAPT of Texas, Civil rights, disability rights

Podcast Episode 23: The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted January 24, 2020

There is no question that the impetus for Congress passing and President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1968 Fair Housing…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Civil rights, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, Podcast

Podcast Episode 22: Creosote in the Greater Fifth Ward

A Little Louder, Local issues, Studies•by •Posted January 10, 2020

The Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens areas of Houston are historic Black neighborhoods where families have proudly planted roots for…

Tags: Environmental justice, Fifth Ward, Houston, Podcast

Episode 21: The Stink Of Unequal Sewage

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 9, 2019

Housing inequality can often manifest in ways that many do not think of and some take for granted. For example,…

Tags: A Little Louder, Environmental justice, Sewage

Episode 20: A Look At RAD Conversion

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues•by •Posted November 22, 2019

In 2012, Congress authorized some public housing agencies to convert units from their original federally-funded public housing developments to project-based Section 8…

Tags: Fort Worth, HUD, public housing, RAD

Episode 19: Disaster recovery is leaving out renters

A Little Louder, Harvey Recovery•by •Posted November 8, 2019

When a disaster hits, flooding and fires might not discriminate, but the systems and funding intended to rebuild our communities…

Tags: Aransas Pass, Disaster recovery, Fair housing, FEMA, Housing, Hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, lawsuit, Podcast

Episode 18: The Power of Renters

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by •Posted October 11, 2019

More than one-third of households in Texas are renters, and in Austin, more than half of residents rent their homes.…

Tags: Austin, BASTA, Fair housing, Renters, Tenant rights

Podcast Episode 17: When Highways Threaten Our Legacy

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted September 27, 2019

In 1915, Independence Heights was the first town incorporated by African Americans in the state of Texas. For more than…

Tags: History, I-45 expansion, txdot

Podcast Episode 16: The House of Cards America Built

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted September 13, 2019

When the U.S. government designed postwar housing policy and subsidized massive developments and suburbs, it created a strong middle class…

Tags: Fair housing, homeownership, Redlining, segregation

Podcast episode 15: Sonido del Agua Part 2

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted August 30, 2019

If you want to change law and policy, you have to change people’s minds. And to change people’s minds, you…

Tags: ARISE, bcWorkshop, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley

Podcast Episode 14: El Sonido del Agua Part I

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted August 19, 2019

Season 2 of our podcast is live, and it starts with a deep dive into a multi-year drainage campaign in…

Tags: A Little Louder, ARISE, Colonias, drainage, LUCHA, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley

Podcast Episode 13: Where do the 2020 presidential candidates stand on housing?

A Little Louder•by •Posted June 28, 2019

On the season 1 finale of our podcast, A Little Louder, Texas Housers co-director John Henneberger and I review what…

Tags: Affordable housing, Election, Fair housing, Renters

Podcast Episode 12: Juneteenth and Texas Freedom Colonies

A Little Louder•by Michael Depland•Posted June 14, 2019

Juneteenth is soon approaching in a few days, and in honor of the holiday, we spoke about the preservation of…

Tags: A Little Louder, freedom colonies, Juneteenth

Podcast episode 11: The roundabout way we subsidize affordable housing

A Little Louder•by •Posted May 31, 2019

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program is helping to produce most of the new affordable housing in our country.…

Tags: Affordable housing, LIHTC, TDHCA

Podcast episode 10: Inside HUD’s plan that may threaten mixed-status families

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted May 17, 2019

In episode 10, Texas Housers breaks down the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development new proposed rule to evict…

Tags: federal subsidy, HUD

Poor living conditions in a Galveston subsidized apartment complex add to the island’s affordable housing crisis

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted May 3, 2019

In episode 9 of our podcast, A Little Louder, we talk about how a subsidized apartment complex in Galveston is…

Tags: federal subsidy, Galveston, Galveston Housing Authority, Galveston Texas, HUD

Community Development Block Grants 101

A Little Louder•by •Posted April 19, 2019

(Photo from Austin’s Blackland Community Development Corporation Facebook page) The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is one of the…

Tags: CDBG, CDC, community development block grants, Community development corporations

10th Street’s struggle for historic neighborhood preservation and inclusive growth

A Little Louder•by •Posted April 5, 2019

In episode 7 of our podcast, A Little Louder, Texas Housers interviews members of the 10th Street Residential Association who…

Tags: Dallas, Disparate impact, Fair housing, freedman's town

The Houser Guide to the 2019 Texas Legislative Session

A Little Louder, State issues•by •Posted March 15, 2019

In Episode 6 of the Texas Housers podcast, A Little Louder, we talk to our advocacy director, Charlie Duncan about…

East Lubbock residents will become citizen scientists in their fight for equal air

A Little Louder•by •Posted March 1, 2019

In episode five of our podcast, A Little Louder, we discuss a proposed military base tenant bill of rights and…

Tags: Environmental justice, Environmental racism, Fair housing, Lubbock

Housing policy that supports everyone’s chance to thrive can change a family’s life trajectory

A Little Louder•by •Posted February 15, 2019

In episode 4 of A Little Louder, we talk about how housing mobility and the policies that support true housing…

Tags: Fair housing, housing choice vouchers, housing mobility

How to avoid disaster recovery Groundhog Day

A Little Louder, Harvey Recovery•by •Posted February 1, 2019

There is no question that natural disasters will hit Texas again. We hope Mother Nature will keep the peace, but…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Fair housing, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, Podcast

Integration Now: How inclusive communities promote options and opportunity

A Little Louder•by •Posted January 14, 2019

In episode 2, Demetria McCain of the Inclusive Communities Project talks about integration and people's right to choose where to…

Tags: Colonias, Fair housing, Integration, Podcast

Texas Housers launches new podcast to discuss housing, community development and community empowerment

A Little Louder•by •Posted January 3, 2019

Texas Housers has created a new podcast where co-director John Henneberger and I will be discussing housing and community development…

Tags: Clarksville, Opportunity Zones, Podcast, Tamina

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