It will be seventeen years next month since the Border Low Income Housing Coalition was established and proposed a plan…
Category: Subsidized Housing
All posts related to subsidized housing, be it public housing, tax credits, Section 8 housing, and more, can be found under this category.
Texas Lags in serving the housing needs of SSI recipients
Stephen F. Gold, an attorney who specializes in civil rights and represents only persons with disabilities, publishes an email Information…
If Not In Your Backyard, Then Where?
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program (LIHTC) is a federal program that supports the production of affordable multifamily housing. …
Texas State Representative sentenced to prison in housing tax credit bribery case
State Representative Terri Hodge (D-Dallas) was sentenced to a year in prison today by a Dallas Federal District judge on…
TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #4: Diversify board composition
As previously discussed here at Texas Housers, TDHCA is currently undergoing Sunset Review. We are presenting recommendations for ways to…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/6/2010
Tuesday Report, April 6, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Tight banking rules on refinancing homes…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 3-30-2010
Tuesday Report, March 30, 2010 The penalties of the over-priced, over-sold and over-mortgaged housing era of the Bush years continue…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 3-23-2010
Tuesday Report, March 23, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The press never quite gets it…
Transforming rental assistance through the HUD budget
Earlier this year we commented on the proposed The 2011 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 2/23/2010
Tuesday Report, February 23, 2010 As the ranks of the unemployed rise, foreclosures closely follow. The federal program to stave-off…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation – 2/16/2010
Tuesday Report, Feb. 16, 2010 Baited by the “American Dream,” thousands of struggling families were suckered by back-loaded mortgages and…
Bo McCarver’s Weekley Housing News Compilation – 2/9/2010
Tuesday Report, February 9, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Southeast Fort Worth is once again…
Dallas Tax Credit Corruption Case Continues
The Dallas Morning News reports State Rep. Terri Hodge plead guilty to not paying taxes on payments which were allegedly…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation – 2/2/2010
Tuesday Report, Feb. 2, 2010 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service News about housing policies took a…
HUD 2011 Budget: Shifts in Emphasis
The 2011 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs was released on February 1. According to…
Bo McCarver’s Weekly Housing News Compilation – 1/27/2010
Home construction and sales of existing homes sagged in December while revised federal programs toughened on riskier home loans but…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/12/2010
The federal effort to stem foreclosures has failed as bankers and homeowners shun bad deals: bankers invest in more profitable…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/5/2010
The nation’s foreclosure rates are far outpacing federal efforts to modify loans. After nine months of efforts to restructure vulnerable…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/15/2009
Despite federal loan-modification programs, foreclosures continue to boom and are predicted to worsen. Some former homeowners are finding relief in…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/8/2009
The Obama Administration’s efforts to curtail foreclosures slowly begin to take effect as several large banks accept short sales. The…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/1/2009
The fundamental supply/demand axiom of capitalism seems undermined as America’s urban zones are increasingly characterized by the peculiar specter of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/24/2009
Lean times permeate all classes and now the rich begin to default on mortgages — meanwhile, the government makes it…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/17/2009
The consequences of rampant, irrational home loans issued during in the false economic boom of George W. Bush’s presidency continue…
TDHCA: Trying to make the best of a bad LIHTC thing
One of the Recovery Act programs we’re watching is the Housing Tax Credit Exchange program, a program supporting the production…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/10/2009
Facing a huge deficit issue, Congress finally acts to give tax breaks to homebuyers but does not address the broader…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/3/2009
Disclosures about Wall Street’s bottom-feeders continue to surface: two stories about Goldman-Sachs were published this week describing the firm’s shady…
Recovery Act Reporting Milestone
Last Friday was a major milestone in the extensive reporting requirements of the Recovery Act. Recovery.gov released the first round…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/27/2009
Confusion reins at Freddie Mac where the quasi-governmental agency cannot bridge the roles of oversight and profiteering. The organization was…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/20/2009
Seeking to provide mortgages to a huge wait-list of first-time homeowners refused by private banks, the Obama Administration has initiated…
Housing Tax Credit Assistance Program: A second bite at the apple?
One of the TDHCA programs we are tracking with our new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act accountability initiative is the…