Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/23/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver has agreed to share with the Texas housers blog the housing related storiesContinue Reading
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver has agreed to share with the Texas housers blog the housing related storiesContinue Reading
Watch our interview with Professor Fox on the origins of public housing in Texas. A number of years ago KarenContinue Reading
On July 8 the Wall Street Journal editorial page let loose on the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund in anContinue Reading
I’ve been complaining about it for years, Now that the New York Times has said it maybe folks will takeContinue Reading
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares are falling like a rock. The Bush Administration is said to be working onContinue Reading
After reading Richard Bitner’s new book, Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider’s Tale of Geed, Fraud and Ignorance IContinue Reading
Low income tenants are seldom consulted about the quality of housing that the government builds for them. I have longContinue Reading
I’m sorry if this makes me sound like an affordable housing hertic but this bothers me. NPR reports there areContinue Reading
One of the occupational diseases of working in affordable housing is overspecialization leading to “over-opinionization”. This malady infects housing practitionersContinue Reading
I know I have been mostly blogging about problems lately. All of this negative housing news can be depressing. IContinue Reading
My friend and sometimes colleague Robert Doggett eviscerates an example of the typical advice story the media dishes out toContinue Reading
I have posted the testimony I presented to Congress regarding how the federal government can betterprovide long-term housing disaster assistanceContinue Reading
A page 1 story in the Washingtom Post Tuesday laid a major part of the blame for the subprime lendingContinue Reading
Watch my testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Financial Service Committee, or, better yet,Continue Reading
The House Financial Services Committee called HUD and FEMA to testify about when the lead federal agencies for hurricane reliefContinue Reading
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)Continue Reading