Texas has several of the nation’s leading self-help housing nonprofits who have been tremendously successful in producing highly cost-efficient self-help…
Category: State issues
From following laws changed through the Supreme Court of Texas and the Texas Legislature to programs and procedures of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, we’re exploring statewide issues here.
Texas tempts fate and courts disaster
Is it that we Texans like living dangerously? Are we just slow to learn? Or are we the victims of…
TxLIHIS testimony on Senate housing studies
In an earlier post I listed the various studies related to housing being conducted by Texas Senate Committees during the…
Texas House of Representatives studies housing
Two days ago I posted the interim studies being conducted on housing by the Texas Senate. Let’s expand that list…
TX Senate studies housing
In the previous post Karen Paup brought up the inclusionary zoning issue at the Texas Legislature. I pointed out that…
Inclusionary zoning redux
The Texas Legislature last session made inclusionary zoning unlawful except in very limited circumstances. Inclusionary zoning is an essential tool…
We have not learned the lessons of Katrina
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we wondered what we could do to help. We settled on four things: 1)…