This blog is the first of a four part series. The following events are Julia Orduña’s recollections while traveling 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.
Texas Housers calls on FEMA and HUD to act quickly and equitably with Hurricane Fiona recovery in Puerto Rico, as future storms loom
On September 18, on the 33rd anniversary of Category 3 Hurricane Hugo and two days before the 5th Anniversary of…
Five Years After Harvey: Disaster Recovery In Texas Is An Ongoing Disaster
In a series of blogs, Texas Housers is observing the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Harvey by examining the responses from…
Texas GLO must enter Voluntary Compliance Agreement or Southeast Texas communities of color will continue losing livelihoods and lives
In March of 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development determined that the Texas General Land Office was discriminatory…
REPORT: Soaring rents put affordable housing ‘Out Of Reach’ for low-income tenants in Texas
Millions of Texan renters have been majorly impacted by landlords raising rents this year. Couple this with eviction case numbers…
A Little Louder Episode 45: Texas GLO and Discrimination
This week, HUD released its final determination that Texas GLO discriminated against Black and Hispanic Texans in its distribution of…
Read Texas Housers’ and Northeast Action Collective’s joint statement on HUD’s final determination of Texas GLO’s civil rights violation
JOINT STATEMENT OF NORTHEAST ACTION COLLECTIVE AND TEXAS HOUSERS ON HUD’S ISSUANCE ON MAY 16 OF A FORMAL LETTER OF…
The Gap 2022 report details changes we urgently need to help extremely low-income renters
Every year, The Gap report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) details the lack of affordable housing for…
Texas Housers calls on HUD to address the dire conditions and racial disparities at Millennia Properties
Texas Housers’ years of work in Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) housing has informed us on how management operates when…
A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #3: Treasury must clarify plan for recapturing Emergency Rent Assistance funds
The US Treasury Department oversees state and local government expenditures of federal Emergency Rent Assistance funds. Texas Housers has discovered…
A Little Louder Video Buzz Session 2: Lessons to learn from COVID
In our latest Buzz Session from A Little Louder, host John Henneberger sits with Texas Housers’ Southeast Texas regional director…
Update on ERA in Texas (VIDEO)
This Buzz Session from A Little Louder is an exclusive video from Housers’ research analyst Erin Hahn. In the clip,…
HUD finds that Texas GLO discriminated against communities of color in $4 billion CDBG-MIT program
In a historic victory for communities of color in Houston and the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban…
HUD stopping State of Texas’s misuse of federal disaster mitigation funds is not about paperwork or politics, it’s about saying no to discrimination
There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigation…
Join us for a livestream play along of ‘Dot’s Home’ with Evan Narcisse, Councilmember Greg Casar and more!
The housing justice video game Dot’s Home is now available for free on PC/Mac and mobile devices, and we are…
Texas GLO’s Mitigation Plan Amendment fails to rectify discrimination in mitigation funding. Here are our official comments.
Texas Housers, alongside several community organizations, has continued to pressure the Texas General Land Office to ensure that CDBG Mitigation…
Watch community members, Texas Housers and Northeast Action Collective’s press conference on Texas GLO’s neglect of neighborhoods of color
On August 22, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) asked HUD to approve a modification of GLO’s controversial decision to…
What Congress gets right in its Draft Housing Tax Credit Provisions
The COVID-19 pandemic has made space for many of us to reconsider the “old ways of doing things.” From how…
State of Texas, counties and cities need to get rent assistance to tenants ASAP!
This infographic from Texas Housers’ senior researcher Ben Martin shows the genuine danger thousands, if not millions, of Texans are…
CDC announces eviction moratorium extension for majority of renters until October 3rd
The Biden Administration has announced that effective August 4th, 2021, the CDC moratorium on evictions will be extended through October…
Read Texas Housers’ comments to FEMA on the efficiency and equity of their aid distribution
Comments by Julia Orduña When the Biden Administration took office in January 2021, among the first executive orders issued from…
Houser Academy Guest Blog: Reviving the American Family
As a member of the inaugural class of our Houser Academy, RJ Griffin focused on advocating for housing for those…
Podcast Episode 35: Eviction Courtwatch During COVID-19
The CDC Eviction Moratorium should protect many individuals who appear before a Justice of the Peace due to non-payment of…
The Texas Rent Relief Program will not reach its target before eviction without these changes
The Texas Rent Relief program, which began rolling out in March has had nearly 72,000 applicants according to recent reporting.…
Texas Supreme Court’s inaction could put thousands of renters at risk of eviction
Thousands of Texas tenants who can’t pay rent amid the COVID-19 crisis are at risk of eviction as the Texas…
Texas ranks at the bottom for affordable and available housing for Extremely Low Income renters. This is what Congress must do to help.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition publishes the Gap Report every March to assess the shortage of affordable and available…
Texas Housers has created a simple checklist of principles for equitable rent relief
After nine months of working with cities and counties in Texas and observing partners across the country do the same,…
Podcast Episode 34: President Biden’s Executive Orders On Housing
It’s a new year and a new administration has moved into the White House. On the first day of the…
The CDC Eviction Moratorium Needs Amendments, Not Just Extensions
Contributed by Julia Orduña and Ally Harris As we enter the new year, many Texans are coming to terms with…
Texas Housers outlines goals to ensure 2021 is a year to advance housing justice
With the turn to a new year, people often look forward to the dawn of better days, great possibility and…