Tent cities continue to sprout across the nation as foreclosures soar and jobs disappear. The financial institutions that might generate…
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.
Hurricane Ike emergency housing status
Some of the elements of the Hurricane Ike housing relief package have become know this week. Here is a review…
A US homebuilder makes a major contribution to getting Mexicans to hate us
U.S. builder hopes Mexicans will want homes made from shipping containers Company targeting poor factory workers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/23/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
The foreclosure resistant low income mortgage loan
The $700 billion bailout of Wall Street brought about by the subprime/ predatory mortgage debacle points out that there needs…
Lessons from Kartina and Rita about rebuilding permanent housing for low income hurricane survivors
We learned valuable lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita about providing post-disaster housing assistance to low income families. This is…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/16/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
A New Orleans obituary has lessons for Galveston
They have their hands full right now, but someday before the plans for rebuilding are set the city leaders in…
Our ten point plan for rehousing low income Hurricane Ike survivors
There are many critical housing needs facing Hurricane Ike survivors of all incomes. Our focus is on the area of…
New management of GSEs says housing tax credits will not be dumped
Earlier I expressed concerns about the portfolios of Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) held by Fannie Mae and Freddie…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/10/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Affordable lending is not to blame for the demise of Fannie and Freddie
Floyd Norris, writing in Sunday’s New York Times, lays the blame for the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie…
Could a federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prove disasterous for low income rental housing?
Who would have thought we would be looking at a federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Because it…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/3/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Three years after Katrina: from compassion to racist stereotypes
Today marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The images of the suffering poor left behind in New Orleans caused…
New Census study documents stunning levels of income inequality in Texas
This week the US Bureau of the Census released a report titled. Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data From the 2007…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/27/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Weighing political convention speehes on government’s obligation to lift up the poor
The presidential nominating conventions are here and both parties will tell us about their vision for the country. I will…
As the pumpkin season approaches there is not housing for farm workers in the Texas pumpkin capital
The farm worker housing development in Floydada, TX and in the Texas Panhandle’s Floyd County is closed. Farm workers are…
Plight of renters unaddressed in foreclosure crisis
While the country focuses on the plight of homeowners facing foreclosure, the plight of renters forced to move due to…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/20/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
New report says Dallas, Houston show increases in concentrated working poverty rates
According to a Brookings Institution study released this week, trends suggest that the decline in concentrated poverty that occurred during…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/13/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Part 2: 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, still waiting for integrated communities
In the previous post I explored the debate and political process that went into the passage of the Fair Housing…
Part 1: 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, still waiting for integrated communities
It is interesting and a little discouraging that on the 40th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, part of the…
Reporter alleges Section 8 tenant crime wave, but where is the evidence?
The elite media has decided to focus on whether Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders are bringing crime to suburban…
Are we encouraging people to buy homes who shouldn’t?
House Financial Services Committee Chair Barney Frank, commenting on the current foreclosure crisis and the importance of the passage of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/6/2008
My friend and fellow houser Bo McCarver shares with the Texas housers blog the housing related stories from his weekly…
Focusing on the big picture of housing assistance
Let’s take a step back and focus on the big picture of housing assistance using this chart I have prepared…
New housing bill presents TDHCA a test of its public purpose
When President Bush signed the big housing bill Wednesday he ushered in a number of changes to the Low Income…