The Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS) has told the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that it…
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.
It’s increasingly difficult for low-income people to find an affordable home
The sharp rise in demand for apartment homes and ever-increasing rents have left very low-income households with few options for…
Study finds wealthy homeowners benefit from federal housing programs far more than low-income people
Pop quiz: What is the largest federally-subsidized housing program in the United States? Hint: It’s not Section 8 housing choice…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions former Houston housing director on his support for unprecedented federal budget cuts
Sen. Elizabeth Warren closely questioned Neal Rackleff, the former housing director in Houston and President Trump’s nominee for HUD Assistant…
New York Times: Houston demonstrates how affordable housing programs perpetuate racial segregation
No politician has the right to tell families where to live – especially not because of their race or income. Doing…
National planning conference affirmatively furthers the fair housing conversation
When I went to conferences in the past, I often felt like I needed to explain fair housing to my fellow…
Controversial Texas mayor tapped by President Trump to lead HUD regional office
In the midst of a nationwide affordable housing crisis, President Trump picked Dr. Ben Carson – an accomplished neurosurgeon and author…
SAD FAKE NEWS: OMB Director vows “Nobody’s going to be kicked out of their houses”
A reporter asked President Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney a question at a press conference at the…
Video: Examining how Texas reduced government-funded housing segregation
Did a fair housing suit actually cause the State of Texas to reduce racial segregation? That’s the question our recent…
Court rules for colonia residents over FEMA denial of post-disaster home repair help
Our friends at La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) have been waging a multi-year…
Guest viewpoint: HUD must do no harm to health equity by furthering fair housing
This is a guest post from Dr. Bakeyah Nelson, a public health practitioner and founder of Community Health Collaborative Consulting in…
Proposed program change would provide voucher holders with greater choice, opportunity
A proposed rule change for the use of federal Housing Choice Vouchers would greatly improve the chance that housing vouchers will do what they…
Out of Reach 2016: Report finds no affordable housing in Texas for minimum wage workers
No matter where in Texas you live, if you earn the minimum wage, you cannot afford your rent. That’s the harsh…
Advocates: Let’s get the National Housing Trust Fund details right from the beginning
This piece originally ran on Shelterforce Magazine’s Rooflines blog. It’s rare when a major new national housing program comes along.…
#ReentryWeek: Sunnyside residents have a vision for fair chances at housing
The U.S. Justice Department has declared this week “National Reentry Week” to shed light on the challenges faced by formerly…
National report reveals massive gap in available affordable housing in Texas
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has released the 2016 edition of its annual report, “The Gap,” which reveals…
What housing mobility in action looks like in Dallas-Fort Worth
The Inclusive Communities Project is a remarkable, unique organization operating in the Dallas area – and the major reason why that…
#InequalityIs…
We have now hit 1,000 posts on the Texas Housers blog, chronicling several years of housing and neighborhood issues here…
HUD issues guidelines for new fair housing regulation
On the last day of 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the final version of its…
Update: Federal budget includes good news for affordable housing
Updated 12/18: It came down to the wire, but several critical affordable housing programs have survived this year’s contentious federal…
Fate of housing programs uncertain as Congress approaches budget deadline
The complicated year-end Congressional budget process got messier the week before Thanksgiving, as the controversy over refugee resettlement became embroiled with…
United for Homes: Fix mortgage inequalities and generate billions for affordable rental housing
Every state in our country, and particularly Texas, faces a chronic shortage of affordable rental housing. Meanwhile, the structure of…
National Housing Trust Fund and HOME program threatened in Congress
Two crucial federal housing programs – the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) and the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) –…
National Housing Conference to host neighborhood revitalization gathering in New Orleans
On November 5 and 6, the National Housing Conference will host the Solutions for Restoring Neighborhoods 2015 Convening at the Marriott…
Secretary Castro marks HUD’s 50th anniversary in Austin
At the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, 50 years to the day since President Lyndon B. Johnson established the…
South Texas colonia conditions mean possible repeat of Katrina level disaster
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Rio Grande Valley in southeast Texas is exactly the kind of…
Register now for webinar access to next week’s federal fair housing conference
Our co-director John Henneberger is a featured speaker at next week’s National Fair Housing Policy and Training Conference, organized by…
Ferguson, fair housing and voucher discrimination: New York Times investigates a major factor in segregation
On the front page of Sunday’s New York Times, reporter John Eligon investigated racial inequality through the lens of fair housing. Specifically,…
David Simon’s new HBO mini series is on housing integration… seriously
These are heady times for fair housing advocates. In the wake of a historic month for fair housing which included a stunning…