Tuesday Report, October 19, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The megabanks resume foreclosures at breakneck…
Category: National issues
National issues encompasses housing topics we are seeing on the federal level. This includes focusing on agencies and topics like HUD, U.S. Congress, civil rights, fair housing advocacy, and work from other states and our national partners.
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…
Two Documents From The Feds This Week
The Feds released two documents this week that are worth mentioning, at least in passing. First, the Obama Administration’s “housing…
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…
NSP1-A Deadline Looms
Last week HUD announced the details of their enforcement of the 18-month deadline for obligation of the first round of…
AG rules that location of weatherization assistance program activities is secret
For the past few months we’ve had an open record request pending at TDHCA for a copy of their “Previously…
HUD “First Look” program asks buyers to overlook PTAF
Earlier this month HUD announced a “first look” initiative which would give participants in HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) preference…
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…
Rich are defaulting on mortgages at a higher rate
While lots of criticism from some TV commentators has been heaped on lower-income homeowners who lost their homes to foreclosure,…
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…
Habitat for Humanity now 8th largest US homebuilder
the Wall Street Journal today reports in the wake of continued strong home production by the charity and the sharp…
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:…
74% of those with “worst case housing need” have extremely low incomes according to HUD report
HUD has published it’s latest assessment of the households that have a “Worst Case Housing Need”. The key findings are:…
New York Times praises State of Texas/TxLIHIS disaster recovery settlement
The New York Times published this editorial Monday about our settlement with the State of Texas. Editorial HUD Steps Up…
Don’t bypass low income homeowners in weatherization program
The GAO recently issued its bimonthly report of activities funded by the Recovery Act (ARRA) in Texas, including a discussion…
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…
Seriously?
Sometimes things cross my desk I don’t even know exactly how to comment on them in polite company: H.R.5369 :…
Administration proposes changes to Neighborhood Stabilization Program, including additional funding
In a press release Tuesday the Obama administration discussed plans to reallocate funds from the first round of the Neighborhood…
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,…
Statement on our Fair Housing settlement with the State of Texas
HUD ACCEPTS $1.7 BILLION REVISED DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN PRIORITIZING REBUILDING HOMES OF SURVIVORS An historic agreement between affordable housing advocates,…
The TxLIHIS / TX Appleseed / State of Texas fair housing settlement agreement
The settlement agreement can be viewed as a PDF document on the HUD website: http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2010/HUDNo.10-106/conciliationagreement.pdf
HUD announces approval of TxLIHIS – Texas Appleseed – State of Texas Fair Housing settlement on hurricane recovery
HUD has issued an announcement of their approval of of the settlement agreement to the TxLIHIS/Texas Appleseed fair housing complaint…
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…