The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) could not meet to conduct business yesterday because it could not…
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.
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 6/23/2009
A surge of mortgage defaults is forecasted as the housing industry slowly sinks further into the general recession. The Texas…
Texas LIHTC corruption case should embarrass us into taking action
I don’t know who, if anyone, is guilty in the Dallas Low Income Housing Tax Credit public corruption case that…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 6/16/2009
While market analysts search vainly for glimmers of hope in the housing industry, foreclosure rates continue to soar. Efforts to…
Roundup of housing related bill action affecting TDHCA by the Texas Legislature
I am finally getting around to compiling the list of all the bills that passed and those that did not…
Galveston Long Term Recovery Plan should focus on what it takes to allow survivors to return home
Lots of hard work has gone into the production of the Galveston Long Term Recovery Plan. The citizens behind this…
Rental housing most vulnerable in Hurricane Ike shortchanged in reconstruction plan
Renters and rental housing were particularly hard hit by Hurricane Ike. Yet renters and rental housing needs are being shortchanged…
How Ike and future hurricanes impact Black households disproportionately
African-American households reside in areas most vulnerable to hurricanes in the greater Galveston Bay area. Census tracts in which 60%…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 6/9/2009
Housing stories were scarce this week as national economic and international events dominated the news. The business indicators remained gloom,…
Karen Paup’s testimony on post hurricane housing rebuilding in Texas
Note: Karen Paup was invited to testify before a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on post-hurricane housing disaster…
Texas legislature rejects adoption of federal fair housing law
The 1968 Fair Housing Act requires that HUD and other federal agencies, as well as their grantees further fair housing.…
Once again, here is my prescription for fixing TSAHC
I wrote a year ago concerning my recommendations for the future of the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation (TSAHC) but…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 4/14/2009
Frozen by the recession, the nation’s exurbs are folding. Thousands of unfinished tract developments mark both the boundaries of sprawl…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 4/7/2009
Stories of mortgage scams and foreclosures largely receded to the second pages of newspapers this week as editors and writers…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/24/2009
As the recession evolves to a depression, those in the top income bracket cling to their accumulations and wait for…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/17/2009
Six months after Hurricane Ike, Galveston’s poor are still shuffling about looking for housing. FEMA has finally opened a trailer…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/10/2009
The recession slowly seeps into Texas as mortgage defaults climb within a sagging economy that is increasingly characterized by layoffs…
The struggle begins to successfully design a TX Neighborhood Stabilization Program
I have previously expressed concerns about how the new Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) can be successfully implemented. I attended a…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/3/2009
The nationalization of mortgage banks draws debate this week with conservatives arguing that “flexibility” will be jeopardized. Meanwhile, the inflated…
Texas share of housing funds from Economic Stimulus bill announced
Texas is set to receive $517,101,969 in funds for low-income housing from the Economic Stimulus Bill. This $517,101,969 is the…
Texas legislature focuses on unmet rural housing needs
It is no secret that rural housing needs have received far less attention than urban housing needs in Texas. A…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/17/2009
Foreclosures continue at record rates as the Obama Administration prepares an injection of money into the failing American economy. Meanwhile,…
The president hears a type of story that we hear every day
At his town hall meeting on Tuesday in Fort Myers Florida President Obama was confronted by Ms. Hughes, a woman…
Low income housing details of Senate compromise stimulus bill disclosed
The details of the Senate compromise bill for the economic stimulus package have come out. Here are the portions that…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/3/2009
All eyes were on the political struggle surrounding the Democratic stimulus program this week as more dismal news of foreclosures…
National housing advocates urge changes to economic stimulus bill
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is urging changes to the draft economic stimulus bill. Support Needed for National Housing…
Dallas public housing authority hires new director
The Dallas Morning News reports the Dallas Housing Authority’s board of commissioners on Thursday hired a new president and chief…
Major funding for low income housing proposed in economic stimulus bill
In the next two weeks, Congress will be considering the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009. Today, House Appropriations…
Fix the Texas Hurricane Ike and Dolly rebuilding plan
We have posted our comments to the State of Texas regrading the State’s proposed hurricane rebuilding plan. We offer fifteen…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/6/2009
Among the foreclosures and general decline in the housing market, this week we witness a huge drop in occupancy of…