A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #4: Justices of the Peace are ignoring tenant protections
The power balance between tenants and landlords is usually tilted in the latter’s favor, and this is true in noContinue Reading
Category: State issues
Some Texas Justice of the Peace courts are ignoring protections designed to protect tenants, with eviction being the result
Texas Housers’ Eviction Prevention Specialist Tori Tavormina has chronicled her observations overseeing the Courtwatch program in Harris County. Below isContinue Reading
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 forContinue Reading
A Little Louder Episode 44: Issues with Texas Rent Relief
The Emergency Rental Assistance program (ERA) has distributed at least $2.5 billion in the state of Texas with $1.9 billionContinue Reading
San Antonio needs a Tenant Bill of Rights. Here is where we start.
Tenants in Texas need a change. In our state, the most basic rights for millions of renter households are notContinue Reading
Texas Housers calls on State of Texas to dismantle racial residential exclusion through the housing tax credit program
Texas Housers believes the locational decisions the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) adopts for selecting sites forContinue Reading
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 discoveredContinue Reading
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 directorContinue Reading
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,Continue Reading
Justices of the Peace in Texas should make these best practices permanent to establish equality in eviction court
With most Covid-era tenant protections coming to an end, Texas Housers is calling on Justices of the Peace in ourContinue Reading
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 UrbanContinue Reading
Texas cities and counties may lose up to $103M in emergency rent relief if they fail to act before March 31
Texas Housers issues an urgent plea to government officials in certain Texas cities and counties to act immediately before theyContinue Reading
WATCH: Texas Housers joins Houston organizers for ‘Preventing Eviction: Beyond The Crisis’ livestream
Housing insecurity has been one of the biggest issues to face Americans during the pandemic. Renters across the nation whoContinue Reading
A Little Louder Video Buzz Session 1: Texas eviction crisis update
Texas Housers’ co-director John Henneberger is joined by senior researcher Ben Martin in a new vlog to talk about theContinue Reading
Texas Housers new Eviction Case Dashboard expands the picture of what tenants in danger of displacement face
Texas Housers has officially launched our Texas Eviction Case dashboard as a part of our Texas Eviction Diversion Tracker. AlongsideContinue Reading
Watch ‘Texas Housers 2021 Video Rewind’ as we spotlight the unique voices who fought for housing justice
We are starting off 2022 in a big way with a few videos highlighting what the last year looked like for TexasContinue Reading
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 mitigationContinue Reading
Track the progress of state and local ERA distribution in Texas with Texas Housers’ ERA dashboard
The COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis that it gave rise to have taken a devastating toll on Americans. InContinue Reading
A Little Louder Podcast Episode 40: Demolition Deluge in San Antonio
A Little Louder is back with our latest episode and we are talking demolitions in San Antonio. On this week’sContinue Reading
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 areContinue Reading
A Little Louder Podcast Episode 39: Five things that need fixing in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program
John is back in the booth for a new episode of A Little Louder! On this episode of A LittleContinue Reading
University of Texas Law researchers report excessive “orders to vacate” and demolitions in low-income San Antonio neighborhoods
Texas Housers is pleased to announce the publication of “Ousted: The City of San Antonio’s Displacement of Residents through CodeContinue Reading
Section 8 tenants score victory in court ruling, HUD must relocate renters in substandard housing
Texas Housers has worked with tenants in the Coppertree Village apartment complex for many years. A property that hosts numerousContinue Reading
A Little Louder Podcast Episode 38: The American Rescue Plan Act and Tenants’ Rights
John is back in the booth for a new episode of A Little Louder! On the show the time, weContinue Reading
Texas Housers new South Texas Regional Director Mia Loseff knows community leads the march to real change
Texas Housers is proud to introduce Mia Loseff as our new South Texas Regional Director. Joining our team in 2019,Continue Reading
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 toContinue Reading
Beyond the Moratorium: Eviction courts must use Community Navigation to get rent relief to tenants quickly
Following the Supreme Court ruling to end the CDC moratorium in August 2021, Texas Housers wrote a 5-Point Plan thatContinue Reading
Texas Housers evaluates how cities and counties have progressed in Volume 2.0 of ERAP effectiveness report
On August 26th, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States ended the CDC moratorium on evictions in a rulingContinue Reading
Texas Housers calls for immediate State and local action to prevent mass displacement following abrupt lift of CDC moratorium on evictions
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a decision on August 26 to end the CDC moratorium onContinue Reading
Texas Housers new Southeast Texas Regional Director Julia Orduña supports a resident-empowered future
Texas Housers is proud to announce that Julia Orduña has been named our new Southeast Texas Regional Director. Julia joinedContinue Reading