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Category: Local issues

Basic necessities are scarce for everyone under COVID-19; residents in low-income households tell us it’s even worse for them.

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 24, 2020

“Our community has always survived without, so this isn’t necessarily new, but during a state of emergency, we are more…

Tags: covid-19, Houston, Transportation

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

Read Texas Housers’ statement on COVID-19 preparedness and protections in the State of Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 17, 2020

When Texans are confronted with rising floodwater, violent tornadoes, or other threats, we have shown that we band together to…

Tags: coronavirus, covid-19

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

Cleanup of Donna Lake to officially commence in March, due to pressure from ARISE, LUPE, and local allies

Local issues, State issues•by Michael Depland•Posted February 19, 2020

Texas Housers has worked for years in the Rio Grande Valley, partnering with motivated organizations like LUPE and ARISE, to…

Tags: Donna Lake, Environmental justice, Rio Grande Valley

Moms4Housing is a model of how to center tenants on the path to housing justice

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted February 17, 2020

In early January 2020, Oakland group Moms4Housing was subjected to a militarized eviction from an unoccupied home it had taken…

Tags: Houston, HUD, Moms4Housing

I-45 expansion in Houston offers little to numerous displaced residents, Texas Housers outlines in comments to TxDOT

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 12, 2020

The proposed expansion of I-45 in Houston, officially known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), is a prime…

Tags: Houston, I-45 expansion

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

Texas Housers defends AFFH rule in statement to Congressional Oversight Committee for ‘Fair Housing Accountability’ hearing

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 5, 2020

On February 5, Congress is holding a hearing entitled “The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability” to discuss…

Tags: AFFH, Congress, HUD

Harvey Forgotten Survivor Caucus show the long road to disaster recovery with their first ‘home tour’ (VIDEO)

Harvey Recovery, Local issues, State issues•by Michael Depland•Posted January 30, 2020

On January 16, a group of residents who have come together to utilize their collective power under the name Harvey Forgotten…

Tags: Harvey Forgotten Survivor Caucus, Hurricane Harvey

In a series of op-eds, Texas Housers outline injustices with HUD’s protection rollbacks and Houston’s cancer cluster

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 29, 2020

Texas Housers is committed to housing justice in all the avenues that we use. Communities where individuals and families suffer…

Tags: Cancer Cluster, Fifth Ward, HUD, Kashmere Gardens, op-ed

Substandard colonias are an enduring result of housing segregation that we can fix

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 27, 2020

The challenge of substandard colonias are not unique to the border or even our era, but are actually an age…

Tags: Colonias

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

‘Unsafe. Unsanitary. Unequal.’ is a digital experience from Texas Housers detailing segregation in Houston’s Project-Based Section 8 Housing

Local issues, State issues, Studies•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 2, 2020

In 2019, Texas Housers spent the entire year documenting the disadvantages for Black tenants in HUD-subsidized, Project-Based Section 8 Rental…

Tags: featured, Houston, HUD, project based section 8

Disaster Recovery in Houston is a tangled mess. This is what I learned that needs to change in my first six months.

Harvey Recovery, Local issues, State issues•by Julia Orduña•Posted December 17, 2019

Julia Orduña is Texas Housers’ Community Navigator in the greater Houston area. She is sharing her initial impressions of working…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Houston

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

Texas’ Health Department study officially confirms cancer cluster exists in Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens

Local issues•by Sophie Dulberg•Posted December 6, 2019

In August 2019, the Texas Department of State Health Services discovered what many residents of Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens in…

Tags: Creosote, Environmental justice, Houston

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 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

Texas Housers presents the Tenant view of Houston’s segregation of Project Based Section 8 Housing in latest report

Local issues, Studies•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 10, 2019

Texas Housers is exploring the issues of HUD-subsidized housing from the perspective of the tenants. In Part 1 of a…

Tags: Houston, Report, Section 8

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

Houston’s I-45 expansion deeply damages life for low-income residents. Upholding the Four Rights could help them.

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted September 10, 2019

In 2015, partners of Texas Housers developed the Four Rights as a framework to discuss and practice fair housing. Those…

Tags: four rights, Houston, I-45 expansion

Houston’s downtown Opportunity Zone is a prime example why the program desperately needs reform

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted September 6, 2019

Since its creation in 2017, the Opportunity Zones program was touted by the Trump Administration as a measure to revitalize…

Tags: Houston, Opportunity Zones

Lubbock’s zoning has a history of Jim Crow. City officials refuse to reckon with it.

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted September 5, 2019

Untangling a century of discrimination takes hard, dedicated work. For nearly two years, neighborhoods in Lubbock’s East and North Side have…

Tags: jim crow, Lubbock, zoning

San Antonio Could Pilot the State’s First Right to Counsel Initiative To Help Renters Facing Eviction

Local issues•by •Posted September 4, 2019

San Antonio could be the first city in Texas to pilot a Right to Counsel initiative to guarantee renters in…

Tags: Eviction, Renters, Right to Counsel, San Antonio

HUD is giving Fort Worth an Envision Center when its at-risk neighborhoods need a clear vision for their fraught future

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted September 4, 2019

“Housing assistance should be more than just putting a roof over someone’s head,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson told a Fort…

Tags: Envision Centers, Fort Worth, HUD, Stop Six

Two years of disaster recovery: we are holding our fire for now as we listen to survivors and ask government for a honest accounting

Harvey Recovery, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 1, 2019

In the two years since Hurricane Harvey made landfall, so much has changed. There has even been some encouraging movement…

Tags: Disaster recovery, GLO, Harris County, Houston, Hurricane Harvey

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

Harris County steps into a future of equitable recovery by passing the #HarrisThrives Resolution

Harvey Recovery, Local issues•by •Posted August 29, 2019

Two years ago this week, Hurricane Harvey made landfall over Southeast Texas. The storm’s strength didn’t just punish with its heavy…

Tags: Flooding, Harris County, HarrisThrives, Houston

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