This weekend ten people were killed when tornadoes touched down in Mississippi. This section of the Washington Post coverage of…
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 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…
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…
Texas Weatherization program: need to improve spending, job creation, housing repairs
Yesterday the Texas House Committee on Urban Affairs and the Texas House Select Committee on Federal Economic Stabilization Funding met…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 3-23-2010
Tuesday Report, March 23, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The press never quite gets it…
Transforming rental assistance through the HUD budget
Earlier this year we commented on the proposed The 2011 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban…
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…
Texas groups act to prevent the loss of millions in affordable home loans for the poor
The sad utilization failure of the US Department of Agriculture’s low income home loan program in Texas has been worrying…
Don’t Allow Lenders to Ignore the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act in the Neighborhood Stabilization Program
Background Since May 2009 the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTAF) has required purchasers of foreclosed properties (usually the lender)…
Buffett wants to tilt the market towards manufactured housing
On Friday Warren Buffett released his annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway owns Clayton Homes, a major…
Slow start to weatherization programs: Not just Texas
On Tuesday the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General added to the recent parade of commentary regarding the slow…
You have to know someone to live here – disguised discrimination
This NYT article exposes an interesting method of discrimination which allegedly occurred in the Edgewater Park or Silver Beach Garden…
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…
HUD 2011 Budget: Shifts in Emphasis
The 2011 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs was released on February 1. According to…
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…
Another epic, preventable disaster strikes the poor
Somilia, Katrina, Rita, Ike, now Haiti. Another epic disaster strikes a population of desperately poor people. Poor physical living conditions,…
HUD OIG subpoenas three Texas lenders
The HUD Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued subpoenas to 15 companies on Tuesday, including three Texas lenders. The…
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…
The Texas plan directs rebuilding money away from those in need
There is really no other way to characterize the plan Governor Perry submitted to HUD to spend $1.7 billion in…
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…
USDA Rural Development housing programs would be improved through more open government
Last week Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo called the “Open…
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…
Department of Energy IG: Recovery Act “has strained existing resources” at the Department
The Inspector General at the Department of Energy[1] released a report Monday warning that the Recovery Act energy funding “represents…