As the recession evolves to a depression, those in the top income bracket cling to their accumulations and wait for…
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.
TxLIHIS Karen Paup and NLIHC Sheila Crowley testify on housing disaster recovery
. Texas Low Income Housing Information Service co-director Karen Paup and National Low Income Housing Coalition president Sheila Crowley were…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/17/2009
Six months after Hurricane Ike, Galveston’s poor are still shuffling about looking for housing. FEMA has finally opened a trailer…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/10/2009
The recession slowly seeps into Texas as mortgage defaults climb within a sagging economy that is increasingly characterized by layoffs…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/3/2009
The nationalization of mortgage banks draws debate this week with conservatives arguing that “flexibility” will be jeopardized. Meanwhile, the inflated…
Can Texas handle the increase in homeless and low-income weatherization funds?
All of the money coming to Texas from the economic stimulus bill is a great thing. But as the size…
Texas share of housing funds from Economic Stimulus bill announced
Texas is set to receive $517,101,969 in funds for low-income housing from the Economic Stimulus Bill. This $517,101,969 is the…
Court rules that city fair housing certification is “not a mere boilerplate formality”
A landmark court ruling regarding the obligations of recipients of HUD funds to “affirmatively further fair housing” should be a…
President’s budget to fund Natinal Housing Trust Fund with $1 billion
President Obama’s budget provides $1 billion in funding for an Affordable Housing Trust Fund for the first time. The Housing…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/24/2009
The first infusion of federal money to bailout banks had insignificant impact on housing foreclosures as bankers channeled the money…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/17/2009
Foreclosures continue at record rates as the Obama Administration prepares an injection of money into the failing American economy. Meanwhile,…
The president hears a type of story that we hear every day
At his town hall meeting on Tuesday in Fort Myers Florida President Obama was confronted by Ms. Hughes, a woman…
What we mean by affordable housing: an open letter to Congress
In an open letter to Congress calling for more attention to affordable housing in the economic recovery bill, 547 housing…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/10/2009
As foreclosures convert homeowners to renters, construction of additional multi-family units to accommodate the surge languishes: the recession renders little…
Low income housing details of Senate compromise stimulus bill disclosed
The details of the Senate compromise bill for the economic stimulus package have come out. Here are the portions that…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/3/2009
All eyes were on the political struggle surrounding the Democratic stimulus program this week as more dismal news of foreclosures…
Proposed simulus bill fails to address low income housing adequately
The version of the stimulus package being considered by the Senate is a disappointment to those who had hoped that…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/27/2009
With the first round of bailout billions having rendered no progress in stemming foreclosures, the Obama Administration ponders where to…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/20/2009
A year ago, the business pages of Texas’ daily newspapers uniformly ran stories saying the national downturn in housing was…
Florida Housing Trust Fund raided to balance state budget
The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Florida Legislature raided the Florida Housing Trust Fund to cope with the state’s budget…
National housing advocates urge changes to economic stimulus bill
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is urging changes to the draft economic stimulus bill. Support Needed for National Housing…
Major funding for low income housing proposed in economic stimulus bill
In the next two weeks, Congress will be considering the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009. Today, House Appropriations…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/14/2009
The rental housing market begins to feel the recession as vacancy rates increase and rents drop. Analysts cite unemployment as…
Watch “The Old Man and the Storm” on-line
In case you missed the broadcast, I urge you to watch the Frontline film, The Old Man and the Storm…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/6/2009
Among the foreclosures and general decline in the housing market, this week we witness a huge drop in occupancy of…
PBS film documements role of race, class and politics in rebuilding hurricane damaged homes
Watch the trailer for the PBS Frontline film, “The Old Man and the Storm.” Several of President Bush’s top aides…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/30/2008
The year ends on a dead beat as the housing industry continues to free-fall with no landing place in sight.…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/23/2008
Unquestioned, over-sold and under-regulated, the American Dream has collapsed and brought down a whole house of cards. Efforts to resurrect…
Proposal to include housing in economic stimulus
President-elect Obama has proposed a massive highway construction and public building energy retrofitting effort to serve as the basis of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/18/2008
The eminent administration change refocuses policies to relief of low and middle income households rather than the financial industry. This…