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Category: National issues

Parallel Roads of Disaster Recovery: My Week in Puerto Rico, Part 2

Harvey Recovery, National issues•by Julia Orduña•Posted November 22, 2022

Posters of grassroots organizations stating “We are not leaving from here” and “They are selling us” are plastered along building…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Harvey Forgotten Survivor Caucus, Hurricane Harvey, Puerto Rico

Texas Housers is searching for our next advocacy coordinator to work on policy and community outreach across Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 18, 2022

Texas Housers’ Advocacy Coordinator is dedicated to public and governmental advocacy for low-income Texans to have equitable access, regardless of…

Tags: hiring, Job announcement

Parallel Roads of Disaster Recovery: A Week in Puerto Rico – Part 1

Harvey Recovery, National issues•by Julia Orduña•Posted October 14, 2022

This blog is the first of a four part series. The following events are Julia Orduña’s recollections while traveling for…

Tags: CDBG-DR, Disaster recovery, Hurricane Harvey, Puerto Rico

Texas Housers calls on FEMA and HUD to act quickly and equitably with Hurricane Fiona recovery in Puerto Rico, as future storms loom

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 28, 2022

On September 18, on the 33rd anniversary of Category 3 Hurricane Hugo and two days before the 5th Anniversary of…

Tags: Disaster recovery, FEMA, HUD, hurricane fiona, Puerto Rico

Five Years After Harvey: Disaster Recovery In Texas Is An Ongoing Disaster

Harvey Recovery, Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 26, 2022

In a series of blogs, Texas Housers is observing the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Harvey by examining the responses from…

Tags: Hurricane Harvey, Texas GLO

Texas GLO must enter Voluntary Compliance Agreement or Southeast Texas communities of color will continue losing livelihoods and lives

Harvey Recovery, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted August 25, 2022

In March of 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development determined that the Texas General Land Office was discriminatory…

Tags: CDBG MIT, HUD, Texas GLO

REPORT: Soaring rents put affordable housing ‘Out Of Reach’ for low-income tenants in Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 28, 2022

Millions of Texan renters have been majorly impacted by landlords raising rents this year. Couple this with eviction case numbers…

Tags: Affordable housing, NLIHC, Out of Reach

A Little Louder Episode 45: Texas GLO and Discrimination

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 19, 2022

This week, HUD released its final determination that Texas GLO discriminated against Black and Hispanic Texans in its distribution of…

Tags: A Little Louder, CDBG MIT, Civil rights, Disaster recovery, Texas GLO

Read Texas Housers’ and Northeast Action Collective’s joint statement on HUD’s final determination of Texas GLO’s civil rights violation

Harvey Recovery, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 18, 2022

JOINT STATEMENT OF NORTHEAST ACTION COLLECTIVE AND TEXAS HOUSERS ON HUD’S ISSUANCE ON MAY 16 OF A FORMAL LETTER OF…

Tags: Disaster recovery

The Gap 2022 report details changes we urgently need to help extremely low-income renters

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 21, 2022

Every year, The Gap report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) details the lack of affordable housing for…

Tags: Tenant rights, The Gap

Texas Housers calls on HUD to address the dire conditions and racial disparities at Millennia Properties

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 4, 2022

Texas Housers’ years of work in Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) housing has informed us on how management operates when…

Tags: HUD, millenia, sandpiper cove, Tenant rights

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #3: Treasury must clarify plan for recapturing Emergency Rent Assistance funds

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 29, 2022

The US Treasury Department oversees state and local government expenditures of federal Emergency Rent Assistance funds. Texas Housers has discovered…

Tags: buzz session, emergency rent assistance, evictions, Texas, unexpended funds, US Treasury Department

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session 2: Lessons to learn from COVID

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 24, 2022

In our latest Buzz Session from A Little Louder, host John Henneberger sits with Texas Housers’ Southeast Texas regional director…

Tags: A Little Louder, buzz session, covid-19, eviction diversion program, evictions, rent relief

Update on ERA in Texas (VIDEO)

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 16, 2022

This Buzz Session from A Little Louder is an exclusive video from Housers’ research analyst Erin Hahn. In the clip,…

Tags: A Little Louder, ERA, evictions, rent relief

HUD finds that Texas GLO discriminated against communities of color in $4 billion CDBG-MIT program

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 8, 2022

In a historic victory for communities of color in Houston and the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban…

Tags: CDBG, CDBG MIT, Disaster recovery, HUD, Texas GLO

HUD stopping State of Texas’s misuse of federal disaster mitigation funds is not about paperwork or politics, it’s about saying no to discrimination

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 14, 2022

There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigation…

Tags: CDBG, HUD, Texas GLO

Join us for a livestream play along of ‘Dot’s Home’ with Evan Narcisse, Councilmember Greg Casar and more!

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 6, 2021

The housing justice video game Dot’s Home is now available for free on PC/Mac and mobile devices, and we are…

Tags: Dot's Home, housing justice, livestream

Texas GLO’s Mitigation Plan Amendment fails to rectify discrimination in mitigation funding. Here are our official comments.

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 6, 2021

Texas Housers, alongside several community organizations, has continued to pressure the Texas General Land Office to ensure that CDBG Mitigation…

Tags: community development block grants, Houston, Port Arthur

Watch community members, Texas Housers and Northeast Action Collective’s press conference on Texas GLO’s neglect of neighborhoods of color

Harvey Recovery, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 21, 2021

On August 22, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) asked HUD to approve a modification of GLO’s controversial decision to…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Northeast Action Collective, Press Conference, Texas General Land Office

What Congress gets right in its Draft Housing Tax Credit Provisions

National issues•by •Posted September 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has made space for many of us to reconsider the “old ways of doing things.” From how…

Tags: LIHTC

State of Texas, counties and cities need to get rent assistance to tenants ASAP!

National issues, Uncategorized•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 1, 2021

This infographic from Texas Housers’ senior researcher Ben Martin shows the genuine danger thousands, if not millions, of Texans are…

Tags: covid-19, evictions, rent assistance

CDC announces eviction moratorium extension for majority of renters until October 3rd

National issues, State issues•by •Posted August 4, 2021

The Biden Administration has announced that effective August 4th, 2021, the CDC moratorium on evictions will be extended through October…

Tags: CDC, covid-19, eviction moratorium

Read Texas Housers’ comments to FEMA on the efficiency and equity of their aid distribution

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 22, 2021

Comments by Julia Orduña When the Biden Administration took office in January 2021, among the first executive orders issued from…

Tags: Disaster recovery, FEMA

Houser Academy Guest Blog: Reviving the American Family

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted June 11, 2021
Photo by Family First on StockSnap

As a member of the inaugural class of our Houser Academy, RJ Griffin focused on advocating for housing for those…

Tags: Houser Academy

Podcast Episode 35: Eviction Courtwatch During COVID-19

A Little Louder, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted June 8, 2021

The CDC Eviction Moratorium should protect many individuals who appear before a Justice of the Peace due to non-payment of…

Tags: CDC, covid-19, eviction moratorium

The Texas Rent Relief Program will not reach its target before eviction without these changes

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 9, 2021

The Texas Rent Relief program, which began rolling out in March has had nearly 72,000 applicants according to recent reporting.…

Tags: covid-19, featured, rent relief

Texas Supreme Court’s inaction could put thousands of renters at risk of eviction

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 1, 2021

Thousands of Texas tenants who can’t pay rent amid the COVID-19 crisis are at risk of eviction as the Texas…

Tags: CDC, covid-19, eviction moratorium, Texas Supreme Court

Texas ranks at the bottom for affordable and available housing for Extremely Low Income renters. This is what Congress must do to help.

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 18, 2021

The National Low Income Housing Coalition publishes the Gap Report every March to assess the shortage of affordable and available…

Tags: Affordable housing, NLIHC, The Gap

Texas Housers has created a simple checklist of principles for equitable rent relief

National issues, State issues•by •Posted February 2, 2021

After nine months of working with cities and counties in Texas and observing partners across the country do the same,…

Tags: covid-19, rent relief

Podcast Episode 34: President Biden’s Executive Orders On Housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 29, 2021

It’s a new year and a new administration has moved into the White House. On the first day of the…

Tags: A Little Louder, AFFH, Fair Housing Act, HUD

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