Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The federal bailout tab for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continues…
Category: Local issues
Local issues consist of housing topics faced by city and county governments that are of interest to local organizers and community groups.
NIMBYism in Real Time
“Studies show it [NIMBYism] has contributed to projects being clustered in less affluent areas with high concentrations of minorities, such…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 10-19-2010
Tuesday Report, October 19, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The megabanks resume foreclosures at breakneck…
“Neighborhood” letters and Tax Credit Properties
Eric Dexheimer at that Statesman has an extensive article examining neighborhood groups and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program. …
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 10-5-2010 & 9-28-10
Tuesday Report, October 5, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service According to new census figures and…
Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears (another) hurdle
The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the Inclusive Communities Project has legal standing…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation, 9-1 through 9-21-2010
Tuesday Report, September 21, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Galveston’s shakers and movers have been…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation -7/20/2010
Tuesday Report, July 20, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The paradigm of unlimited growth is…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 7/13/2010
Tuesday Report, July 13, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service This week we learn that the…
City of Houston weatherization jobs have not been in low-income communities
The 2009 Recovery Act increased the funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) in Texas by 2500%. This program funds…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 7/6/2010
Tuesday Report, July 6, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service As the nation’s economy recalibrates from…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/22/2010
Tuesday Report, June 22, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The theory that the cost of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/15/2010
Tuesday Report, June 15, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Services The bright blip in housing sales…
Current FEMA disaster recovery policy will leave low-income hurricane survivors unassisted
Lower income Texas families whose homes are damaged by Hurricane Alex and future hurricanes this season will be denied financial…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/8/2010
Tuesday Report, June 8, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Class wars abound in Texas cities:…
Margaret Shaw removed as Austin housing director
Margaret Shaw has been removed as director of the City of Austin’s housing department by Austin City Manager Marc Ott.…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/1/2010
Tuesday Report, June 1, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The recession drags into a third…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/25/2010
Tuesday Report, May 25, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Home sales are up, thanks to…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation -5/18/2010
Tuesday Report, May 18, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service In the depths of the recession,…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/11/2010
Tuesday Report, May 11, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/4/2010
Tuesday Report, May 4, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Buyers rushing to take advantage of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/27/2010
Tuesday Report, April 27, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The federal tax credit program for…
Texas State Representative sentenced to prison in housing tax credit bribery case
State Representative Terri Hodge (D-Dallas) was sentenced to a year in prison today by a Dallas Federal District judge on…
Reducing tornado deaths in mobile homes
This weekend ten people were killed when tornadoes touched down in Mississippi. This section of the Washington Post coverage of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/20/2010
Tuesday Report, April 20, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Charges have finally been filed against…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/13/2010
Tuesday Report, April 13, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The citizens of Farmers Branch will…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/6/2010
Tuesday Report, April 6, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Tight banking rules on refinancing homes…
Failing Waco property facing closure
Back in 2008 we listed the eleven subsidized housing properties with the lowest physical inspection scores from HUD. One of…
Recovery Act recipients should report on creation of “local jobs”
The Recovery Act contains a requirement that information about job created or maintained by recovery act be reported on a…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 3-30-2010
Tuesday Report, March 30, 2010 The penalties of the over-priced, over-sold and over-mortgaged housing era of the Bush years continue…