In the wake of the U.S Supreme Court’s landmark decision and the Obama administration’s new enforcement rule, the issue of…
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.
#ZipCodeMatters: HUD issues new and important fair housing regulation
The Obama administration has just announced a much-anticipated regulation designed to make the Fair Housing Act more effective at eliminating…
The real impact of the Supreme Court’s fair housing decision
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision on the much debated case Texas Department of Housing & Community…
Thinking about the next step toward equality: Protect LGBT people from housing discrimination
Yesterday’s historic Supreme Court ruling established nationwide marriage equality. As we celebrate this historic ruling, we need to prepare to…
HUD Secretary Castro lauds disparate impact ruling, but top Texas officials vow continued fight
Julián Castro, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the former mayor of San Antonio, issued a statement…
U.S. Supreme Court upholds disparate impact in monumental victory for fair housing
Here’s our organization’s official statement on the Supreme Court’s decision: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling today in Texas…
Legacy of housing segregation felt in McKinney pool incident
On Saturday, the latest in our country’s recent series of ugly police confrontations with African-Americans occurred in a seemingly unlikely place: A community…
Join us for a webinar on mapping in fair housing and environmental justice
On Wednesday, May 27, our co-director John Henneberger and fair housing planner Charlie Duncan will participate in a Mapchat, the…
Out of Reach 2015: National report reveals housing burdens for low income families
On Tuesday the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released its annual Out of Reach report, an important look into…
U.S. House committee rejects amendment to protect National Housing Trust Fund
On Wednesday the U.S. House Appropriations Committee approved the Fiscal Year 2016 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD)…
National Housing Trust Fund at risk of losing funding
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) approved…
Public Radio International highlights housing issues in the Rio Grande Valley
Public Radio International reporter (and former TxLIHIS staff member) Alina Simone spent some time in the Rio Grande Valley last month…
Homeownership and the racial wealth gap, in Houston and beyond
Yesterday our co-director, John Henneberger, appeared on Houston Public Media to discuss how rates of homeownership affect the racial wealth…
Update: Proposed Senate budget amendments to cut rural housing programs not included in vote
Update 3/27: The Senate’s marathon “vote-a-rama” ended this morning without a vote on the Hatch and Flake amendments. Original Post 3/26: Yesterday…
Tune into our webinar Thursday to learn more about the National Housing Trust Fund
On Thursday, March 26, at 11 a.m. Central time, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service will host an hourlong webinar on…
Disparate impact and the racial wealth gap
Researcher Catherine Ruetschlin has identified the biggest potential danger of the fair housing case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court: that America’s…
To this day some are lined up on the wrong side of the bridge, blocking the march to integration
Fifty years ago today, hundreds of brave men and women marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to…
An important look at the context behind Supreme Court case on Texas housing segregation
This week’s cover story in the Fort Worth Weekly illustrates exactly why the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive…
Texas cities lead nation in economic segregation
On the heels of a recent study that ranked Austin as the eighth most gentrifying city in the nation, a…
No surprise: National gentrification report lists Austin near the top
A new study backs up what Austinites already know to be true: Austin is one of most gentrifying cities in…
New proposal for colonia funding provides opportunity for Texas
On Friday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a plan to increase the funding that states…
What you need to know about HUD’s National Housing Trust Fund regulations
Yesterday the National Low Income Housing Coalition held an informative webinar on the regulations for the National Housing Trust Fund…
Congress threatens critical funding for affordable housing
So far, 2015 has been a dangerous year for fair housing. Here in Austin, a new ordinance to prevent discrimination…
Dallas Morning News editorial: High court must not perpetuate segregation
In a strongly worded editorial the Dallas Morning News has called on the US Supreme Court to reject the State…
#KeepHousingFair rally kicks off crucial Supreme Court case
For more on the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. case, see our previous posts.…
Those who seek to limit Fair Housing law should be asked about Beaumont, Texas
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States takes up a case about housing discrimination in Dallas that has brought national…
Perry’s comment shows the importance of the #KeepHousingFair campaign
Yesterday, the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the National Fair Housing Alliance launched the #KeepHousingFair campaign. With less than…
What’s really at stake for low-income families of color in the Inclusive Communities Supreme Court case
On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court of the United States will begin to hear arguments in Texas Department of Housing…
A Texas houser’s thoughts on the State of Texas’ appeal of the Dallas fair housing case to the Supreme Court
As a whole, Texas has made some real progress toward equal opportunity and fair housing in the forty-six years since…
Nelson Mandela 1918-2013 – “Our struggle for freedom was a collective effort… It is in your hands to create a better world
“We hold it as an inviolable principle that racism must be opposed by all the means that humanity has at…