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Category: National issues

New housing bill presents TDHCA a test of its public purpose

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 31, 2008

When President Bush signed the big housing bill Wednesday he ushered in a number of changes to the Low Income…

Tags: Low Income Housing Tax Credits

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/30/2008

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 30, 2008

My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…

Tags: Housing news

Questions, answers, concerns about the new $4 billion foreclosed homes program in Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 28, 2008

One of the subprograms of greatest controversy within the major housing legislation passed by Congress on Saturday (HR 3221) is…

Tags: CDBG, Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosure, Home foreclosures, Housing policy, Housing resources

National Housing Trust Fund bill passed by Congress!

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 27, 2008

On Saturday the Senate concurred in House amendments to HR 3221, “The Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008”. …

Tags: National Housing Trust Fund

Understanding public attitudes toward public housing

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 25, 2008

Amidst a lot of anger and outrage directed at a proposed development in Northeast Austin proposing to provide transitional housing…

Tags: Austin, Housing resources, Public housing authorities

The toll from Hurricane Dolly is not in and we’re not prepared for a low income housing disaster

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 24, 2008

At this hour we still don’t have a full account of damage from Hurricane Dolly which hit Brownsville and the…

Tags: Disaster relief, Hurricane rebuilding, Low income survivors, Post-disaster housing

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/23/2008

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 23, 2008

My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver has agreed to share with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories…

Tags: Housing news

Recalling the prehistory of public housing in Texas

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 16, 2008

Watch our interview with Professor Fox on the origins of public housing in Texas. A number of years ago Karen…

Tags: Public housing authorities

Just how crazy can the WSJ editorial page be? Check out the attack on the housing trust fund.

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 15, 2008

On July 8 the Wall Street Journal editorial page let loose on the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund in an…

Tags: Housing policy, Housing resources, National Housing Trust Fund, National issues

When housing advocates sell out bad things happen

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 14, 2008

I’ve been complaining about it for years,  Now that the New York Times has said it maybe folks will take…

Tags: Fannie Mae, Housing advocates

The effect of the Fannie/Freddie meltdown on affordable housing

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 12, 2008

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares are falling like a rock.  The Bush Administration is said to be working on…

Tags: Fannie Mae

The Texas mortgage industry needs to take a hard look in the mirror

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 9, 2008

After reading Richard Bitner’s new book, Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider’s Tale of Geed, Fraud and Ignorance I…

Tags: Subprime lending

The voice of consumers is missing in judging subsidized housing

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 6, 2008

Low income tenants are seldom consulted about the quality of housing that the government builds for them. I have long…

Tags: housing compliance, Housing policy, Low income housing, Substandard housing, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Nonprofit FHA downpayment assistance scheme nets 19% Texas defaults

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 5, 2008

I’m sorry if this makes me sound like an affordable housing hertic but this bothers me. NPR reports there are…

Tags: FHA, Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures

Housers need to shun “over-opinionization” and appreciate the big picture

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 29, 2008

One of the occupational diseases of working in affordable housing is overspecialization leading to “over-opinionization”.  This malady infects housing practitioners…

Tags: Housing policy

State of the Nation’s Housing – it’s getting worse

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 27, 2008

I know I have been mostly blogging about problems lately. All of this negative housing news can be depressing. I…

Tags: Housing costs, Housing policy, Low income housing

A honest critique of media foreclosure prevention pablum

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 24, 2008

My friend and sometimes colleague Robert Doggett eviscerates an example of the typical advice story the media dishes out to…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis

National fixes for post disaster housing programs

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 13, 2008

I have posted the testimony I presented to Congress regarding how the federal government can betterprovide long-term housing disaster assistance…

Tags: Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane Rita, Post-disaster housing, TDHCA, Texas Grow Home

Understanding the role of GSEs, HUD and affordable housing in the subprime crisis

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 12, 2008

A page 1 story in the Washingtom Post Tuesday laid a major part of the blame for the subprime lending…

Tags: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSEs, Mortgage crisis, Subprime lending

At least we are better off than Mississippi and Alabama

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 11, 2008

Watch my testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Financial Service Committee, or, better yet,…

Tags: CDBG, Disaster recovery, Financial Services Committee, Hurricane Rita, TDHCA

FEMA and HUD: not who you would want to depend on to throw you a life preserver

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 4, 2008

The House Financial Services Committee called HUD and FEMA to testify about when the lead federal agencies for hurricane relief…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, Disaster relief, FEMA, HUD, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding, Katrina evacuees

We have not learned the lessons of Katrina

Activities, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted May 31, 2008

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Disaster recovery, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Rita rebuilding, Katrina evacuees, Low income survivors

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