“Its Westchester on steroids,” is how one civil rights advocate characterized HUD’s findings against the City of Dallas, referring to…
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.
Thanksgiving check-in on the homeless in Texas — maybe intractable social problems can be solved after all
It seems that Thanksgiving is one of the few times many people worry about the homeless. Let’s join the crowd…
Invest an hour listening to a great story on Fair Housing
Please listen to a great one hour episode of “This American Life” based on ProPublica’s Nikole Hannah-Jones’ reporting. It is…
Jacob Riis: “Why should a man have a better right to kill his neighbor with a house than with an ax in the street?”
Reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s wonderful new book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism I am…
Undelivered Kennedy speech denounces “nonsense” of deficit fears “wholly unrelated to reality”
In the course of thinking about President Kennedy’s assassination fifty years ago last evening I read the speech Kennedy was…
New proposed HUD Fair Housing Rule released
Today HUD posted it’s long awaited new rules regarding how local and state governments affirmatively further fair housing. These…
GOP spending bill targets community development block grants – POLITICO.com
GOP spending bill targets community development grants – David Rogers – POLITICO.com.
Bo’s Clips: Housing Discrimination Persists
Race continues to be a barrier to housing for people of color in the US with African-Americans encountering the greatest…
NLIHC Highlights Nacogdoches Tenant Association
The Spring 2013 issue of Tenant Talk, a publication of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, contains a moving essay…
Westchester NY county executive agrees to source of income protection under fair housing settlement – ProPublica
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino submitted legislation today to ban discrimination against people who pay their rent with government assistance,…
HUD closing Dallas and Lubbock field offices to cut costs
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Wednesday announced a series of restructuring and systemic changes within its Office…
We’re proud to be a Texas partner of the National Low Income Housing Coalition
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that assures people with the…
Fair Housing Act is 45 years old today. LBJ: “We have come some of the way, not near all of it. There is much yet to do.”
The words in the headline are President Johnson’s on April 11, 1968 as he signed the Fair Housing Act. They…
Franklin the Fair Housing Fox… seriously?
April is Fair Housing Month, the time of year for cities to pass resolutions that no one reads solemnly proclaiming…
Map of the Day: Housing Units Lacking Complete Plumbing
The fine folks at the Housing Assistance Council released a report called “Taking Stock” a few months ago. Taking Stock,…
NLIHC: Americans Support Mortgage Interest Deduction Reform
A poll commissioned by the National Low Income Housing Coalition finds that while most Americans do favor the mortgage interest…
HUD Texas Sequester Letter
Below is a copy of the letter from HUD to Texas Governor Rick Perry regarding the impact of the sequester…
NLIHC: Shortage of Affordable Housing for Low Income Renters in Texas
The National Low Income Housing Coalition’sn new report, Housing Spotlight: America’s Affordable Housing Shortage, and How To End It, provides…
An important milestone for civil rights: HUD issues final fair housing “disparate impact rule”
Years in the making, HUD yesterday issued the final rule on proving “disparate impact” under the Fair Housing Act. The…
NYTimes Endorses Funding National Housing Trust Fund
Last Sunday’s New York Times contained an editorial stating “with nearly 3.3 million families with children living in “worst case”…
NYTimes on housing tax credits gets it right on funding, targeting poor, wrong on promoting segregation
A Tax Credit Worth Preserving – NYTimes.com. We think the New York Times editorial on housing got it two-thirds…
The Affordable Housing Crisis – NYTimes.com
The Affordable Housing Crisis – NYTimes.com. Today’s editorial in the NYT calls for renewed attention to the nation’s rental housing…
HUD Secretary Donovan discusses fair housing with state housing coalitions
At a meeting this week HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan discussed HUD’s approach to fair housing with leaders of state low-income…
Post election soul searching yields important insights but seldom change
The soul searching that follows presidential elections often produces some valuable insights. Too bad they are usually quickly forgotten and…
Once again recovery from a hurricane bypasses the poor
A New York Times editorial laments the type of government neglect that public housing residents in Texas know all too…
2nd installment of ProPublica Fair Housing investigation details Westchester, NY problems
The second article in a major investigative series titled “Living Apart: Fair Housing in America” about HUD’s enforcement of fair housing…
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica. Nikole Hannah-Jones of the news service Pro…
HUD Secretary Donovan discusses tension between place-based and mobility in housing
Secretary Donovan provides a thoughtful discussion of HUD’s direction in the tension between place based housing and mobility in the…
Mitt Romney at private fundraiser: I might eliminate HUD – The Washington Post
The Washington Post reports on a statement made by Mitt Romney about HUD. “I’m going to take a lot of…
Labor Secretary hosts ceremony honoring Cesar Chavez while slashing funds for housing farmworkers
The recognition offered yesterday to leaders of the farmworker movement by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was welcome. The event…