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Category: Housers Spotlight
Texas Housers public events and movements out in the field. Here is where to find more information on how we mobilize in public.
Learn how to resolve a dispute with your landlord
The Texas Tenant Advisor developed by Texas Low Income Housing Information Service and Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid attorney Robert…
Find subsidized housing with our custom search tool – Texas Housing Counselor
The Texas Housing Counselor is a website of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service. It is an interactive search…
Video of Houston Disaster Recovery Town Hall
Last week we highlighted a town hall on Disaster Single Family Home Repair in Houston, hosted by the Texas Organizing…
Hurricane Disaster Spending–an opportunity to repair homes *and* create jobs in affected communities
Texas Low Income Housing Information Service is working with residents in Galveston, Houston and the Valley to make sure that…
Chronicle on Houston Disaster Recovery Repair
Saturday’s Houston Chronicle ran a short story on the status of the single-family housing repair program funded with Hurricane Ike…
John Henneberger Testimony at Urban Affairs on TDHCA Sunset
TxLIHIS co-director John Henneberger testified last week at the Texas House Urban Affairs Hearing on TDHCA’s Sunset process. His testimony,…
Increasing Minimum Entry Door Width in Manufactured Housing
TxLIHIS recently submitted Comments to the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC), a federal advisory committee to HUD on the regulation…
Manufactured homes, mobile homes, and trailers, oh my!
While many readers were tracking the exciting housing bills popping in the mad-end-of-bill-filing rush in the Texas Legislature last week,…
John Henneberger Testimony at Senate Finance on TDHCA Budget
TxLIHIS co-director John Henneberger testified last week at the Senate Finance Hearing on TDHCA’s budget and Disaster Recovery funding in…
Observer Article on Disaster Recovery
“We had an expensive and painful learning process under Rita, and we didn’t apply those lessons to Ike and…
Houston TOP Bus Tour
This blog post is by Elizabeth Nowrouz. In late November, Melissa Cha and I traveled to Houston to gain a…
Recap of Sunset Commission Recommendations for TDHCA
Last week the Texas sunset commission adopted its final recommendations regarding the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA). …
Meet Elizabeth, the Texas Tenant Advisor, and the Texas Housing Counselor
This blog post is by Elizabeth Nowrouz. Hello all, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Elizabeth Nowrouz, and I’m one…
Join us for the 2010 Texas (Fair) Housing Awards
“Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner…
Sunset Followup
The Sunset Commission met on Tuesday of this week to take public comment on the Sunset Staff Report on TDHCA. …
First homes complete, Texas Grow Home Project website launched
The first two Texas Grow Homes in Port Arthur have been completed by Houston-based CDC Covenant Neighborhoods and the new…
What the State of Texas must do to fix the Hurricane rebuilding plan (and what we plan to do to make sure it does)
People have asked me what we want from the Texas CDBG Disaster Rebuilding Plan that we have criticized and that…
“To feel useful in this old world”
Yesterday’s blog post, actually ghostwritten by Kristin Carlisle, stirred the recollections of more than one reader regarding the portrayal by…
New TxLIHIS initiative seeks improvements in housing tax credit program
We are pleased to announce a major new initiative at TxLIHIS. One of the largest affordable housing programs in Texas…
TexasHousers on Twitter
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My excuse for a irregular blogging – bill filing deadline
Regular readers of this blog have doubtless noticed the slowdown in postings over the past week. This is been due…
February 3 meeting to discuss Texas housing legislation
The 81st session of the Texas Legislature has begun in the midst of an escalating housing crisis in Texas. This…
Thanks for supporting our 20th anniversary
On the behalf of the board and staff of the Texas Low Income Housing Information we want to thank the…
Come to our 20th anniversary party October 1
You are invited to join the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service and the Johnson family in a celebration of…
VISTAs make good things happen in housing
We have a new VISTA volunteer at the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service and I am once again reminded…
Farewell Kristin
After four years of dedicated work for the cause of promoting housing for the poor, Kristin Carlisle, development director and Housing Texas…
We have not learned the lessons of Katrina
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)…
32 years in low income housing in Texas
I started my involvement with low income housing and community development in 1975. As a junior at the University of…