Tuesday Report, March 23, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The press never quite gets it…
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.
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 3/16/2010
Tuesday Report, March 9, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Everything that can be wrong with…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 2/23/2010
Tuesday Report, February 23, 2010 As the ranks of the unemployed rise, foreclosures closely follow. The federal program to stave-off…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation – 2/16/2010
Tuesday Report, Feb. 16, 2010 Baited by the “American Dream,” thousands of struggling families were suckered by back-loaded mortgages and…
Bo McCarver’s Weekley Housing News Compilation – 2/9/2010
Tuesday Report, February 9, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Southeast Fort Worth is once again…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation – 2/2/2010
Tuesday Report, Feb. 2, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service News about housing policies took a…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly Housing News Compilation – 1/27/2010
Home construction and sales of existing homes sagged in December while revised federal programs toughened on riskier home loans but…
A conversation series dedicated to developing a disaster housing reconstruction program for low income homeowners
The Texas Grow Home Conversation Series will consist of eight meetings held every third Wednesday from 4pm – 6pm (location…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/12/2010
The federal effort to stem foreclosures has failed as bankers and homeowners shun bad deals: bankers invest in more profitable…
City of Austin runs online survey on housing need
The City of Austin is seeking public input to help focus its affordable housing finance programs, including the use of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/5/2010
The nation’s foreclosure rates are far outpacing federal efforts to modify loans. After nine months of efforts to restructure vulnerable…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/15/2009
Despite federal loan-modification programs, foreclosures continue to boom and are predicted to worsen. Some former homeowners are finding relief in…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/8/2009
The Obama Administration’s efforts to curtail foreclosures slowly begin to take effect as several large banks accept short sales. The…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/1/2009
The fundamental supply/demand axiom of capitalism seems undermined as America’s urban zones are increasingly characterized by the peculiar specter of…
10 percent of Texans are behind in their home loan payments
Each one of the yellow squares represents a judicial mandated sale of property in San Antonio and Bexar County. Scary,…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/24/2009
Lean times permeate all classes and now the rich begin to default on mortgages — meanwhile, the government makes it…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/17/2009
The consequences of rampant, irrational home loans issued during in the false economic boom of George W. Bush’s presidency continue…
Texas Grow Home dedications this Friday in Port Arthur
Here are the details of the dedication of the first two of four Texas Grow Homes in Port Arthur Friday…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/10/2009
Facing a huge deficit issue, Congress finally acts to give tax breaks to homebuyers but does not address the broader…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/3/2009
Disclosures about Wall Street’s bottom-feeders continue to surface: two stories about Goldman-Sachs were published this week describing the firm’s shady…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/27/2009
Confusion reins at Freddie Mac where the quasi-governmental agency cannot bridge the roles of oversight and profiteering. The organization was…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/20/2009
Seeking to provide mortgages to a huge wait-list of first-time homeowners refused by private banks, the Obama Administration has initiated…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly Housing News Compilation – 10/13/2009
Having exhausted the over-sold mortgage ruse, predators now set their sights on reverse mortgages and the elderly. As the scams…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/6/2009
The bank doesn’t want your mortgage: with more profit to be made at less risk in other ventures, banks are…
Will corruption convictions bring reform to housing programs?
In the wake of the conviction of former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and Planning Commissioner D’Angelo Lee in…
Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem and others guilty in housing tax credit case
The Dallas Morning News reports the federal district court jury found all of the defendants in the Dallas Low Income…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/28/2009
Thousands of Gulf Coast poor driven inland by Hurricanes Katrina and Ike have not returned; many choose not to and…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/22/2009
The annual American Community Survey has been released and shows the pervasive effects of the recession. The meltdown of the…
Governor orders $1.3B Hurricane recovery plan changed but fails to fix the problem
Not surprisingly the ill-conceived “weather report plan” proposed by ORCA to divide up the federal disaster recovery dollars in Texas…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly Housing Compilation – 9/15/2009
On the first anniversary of Hurricane Ike, coastal newspapers chronicled the plight of thousands of displaced residents still waiting to…