The Texas mortgage industry needs to take a hard look in the mirror
After reading Richard Bitner’s new book, Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider’s Tale of Geed, Fraud and Ignorance IContinue Reading
After reading Richard Bitner’s new book, Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider’s Tale of Geed, Fraud and Ignorance IContinue Reading
Low income tenants are seldom consulted about the quality of housing that the government builds for them. I have longContinue Reading
In the course of updating our databases of all the multifamily subsidized housing in Texas this week I manually extractedContinue Reading
As I noted in a posting earlier this week the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation (TSAHC) is up for reviewContinue Reading
Looking over the latest report from Mary Brook’s Housing Trust Fund Project at the Center for Community Change makes meContinue Reading
I am supporting the the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs Round 2 plan for CDBG housing assistance forContinue Reading
Demonstrating poor judgment the Texas Teacher’s Retirement Fund announced it is planning to invest $250 million of retirement funds ofContinue Reading
On Tuesday, June 24 the Texas Sunset Commission will meet to make a recommendation to the next Texas Legislature whetherContinue Reading
Watch John Henneberger’s testimony before the Texas Seante International Relations and Trade Committee on substandard rural housing. Read my writtenContinue Reading
Financial Institutions Committee Chairman Burt Solomon is reasonable and fair in approaching the issue of state regulation of financial institutions.Continue Reading
View Dr. James Gaines presentation [it takes a couple minutes to begin playing] before the Texas House financial institutions committeeContinue Reading
Watch Robert Doggett’s testimony before the Financial Services Committee, or better yet watch the entire hearing. On Wednesday Robert Doggett,Continue Reading
Watch my testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Financial Service Committee, or, better yet,Continue Reading
After yesterday’s posting in which I discussed the use of inclusionary zoning several people asked me what inclusionary zoning isContinue Reading
A group of us have been kicking around ideas to address the problem of the involuntary displacement of low incomeContinue Reading
The June 5, 2008 compliance hearing video is 60 minutes. It provides a very useful overview of the issues surroundingContinue Reading
Texas has several of the nation’s leading self-help housing nonprofits who have been tremendously successful in producing highly cost-efficient self-helpContinue Reading
Is it that we Texans like living dangerously? Are we just slow to learn? Or are we the victims ofContinue Reading
In an earlier post I listed the various studies related to housing being conducted by Texas Senate Committees during theContinue Reading
Two days ago I posted the interim studies being conducted on housing by the Texas Senate. Let’s expand that listContinue Reading
In the previous post Karen Paup brought up the inclusionary zoning issue at the Texas Legislature. I pointed out thatContinue Reading
The Texas Legislature last session made inclusionary zoning unlawful except in very limited circumstances. Inclusionary zoning is an essential toolContinue Reading
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)Continue Reading