The year ends on a dead beat as the housing industry continues to free-fall with no landing place in sight.…
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 – 12/23/2008
Unquestioned, over-sold and under-regulated, the American Dream has collapsed and brought down a whole house of cards. Efforts to resurrect…
Proposal to include housing in economic stimulus
President-elect Obama has proposed a massive highway construction and public building energy retrofitting effort to serve as the basis of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/18/2008
The eminent administration change refocuses policies to relief of low and middle income households rather than the financial industry. This…
My suggestions for a Texas disaster housing program
In developing a plan to help Texas survivors of Hurricanes Ike and Dolly rebuild their homes I believe the starting…
Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears hurdle
The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has denied a motion by the Texas Department of Housing…
Galveston public housing conditions illustrate results of HUD’s failure to give a damn
I toured the three devastated public housing developments in Galveston this week and what I saw sickened, depressed and angered…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/2/2008
Eight years of mismanagement and corruption have left the nation’s top agencies gutted: the bright and ethical left early as…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/25/2008
Among the many daunting tasks for the Obama Administration is the revamping of HUD that has languished under poor leadership…
North Texas emerges as ground zero in newly energized fight against racial housing segregation
North Texas is becoming ground zero in the fight against residential racial segregation. This thanks to the experienced and increasingly…
President Bush considers pardoning former Texas housing agency board member
ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, is reporting that President Bush is considering…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/19/2008
Foreclosures continue to soar across the nation as housing starts dwindle. Cities are laced with vacant, unaffordable houses as the…
New Dallas Housing Authority leader needs to focus on the best interest of the tenants
Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert has appointed a new chair for the Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) which got me thinking about…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/12/2008
As the general economy sinks, foreclosures continue to soar and new housing starts dwindle. In California, foreclosures devastate whole towns.…
Houston Chronicle urges prioritizing rebuilding Galveston public housing
Amen! House poor Make restoring Galveston’s public housing a priority Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Nov. 10, 2008 More than three…
Correcting Houston’s extreme shortage of government subsidized housing should be top priority
Traditionally public and Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers play a major role in providing affordable housing within major US cities. …
Mayor White saves 1000 renters from eviction but fundamental low-income housing issues remain
Houston Mayor Bill White acted quickly and responsibly in preventing the owners of the 600 unit Houston La Casita apartment…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/5/2008
The consequences of an unregulated housing finance industry continue to hammer the American middle class: soon a quarter of the…
Confusion and delays plague temporary housing programs for Hurricane Ike survivors
I have been spending some time this week trying to understand the way the FEMA temporary housing assistance programs have…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/29/2008
Administration of the $700 billion bailout has already taken new and questionable turns. While the “Main Street versus Wall Street”…
A public housing advocate senses tide turning against Galvestion public housing rebuilding
Lenwood Johnson, Texas’ foremost public housing advocate, sent me an email this afternoon about the prospects for rebuilding public housing…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 10/22/2008
This week we learned how Freddie Mac administrators thwarted a bill that would have provided the oversight to possibly avoid…
National Housing Trust Fund becomes subject of political distortions
Housing for the poor has been caught up in the partisan distortions of the political mudslinging season. This speaks poorly…
My recommendations for dealing with the low-income homeownership problems in Texas
I was invited to testify today before the Texas Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee on the status of state programs to…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 10/7/2008
An autopsy of Fannie Mae is offered this week by the New York Times, which asserts conflicting pressures to back…
LBJ’s struggle to get Austin to accept public housing offers lessons for today
Seventy years ago here, in Austin Texas, Lyndon Johnson a young, first-term congressman took up the cause of housing the…
Thanks for supporting our 20th anniversary
On the behalf of the board and staff of the Texas Low Income Housing Information we want to thank the…
Lessons from Kartina and Rita about rebuilding permanent housing for low income hurricane survivors
We learned valuable lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita about providing post-disaster housing assistance to low income families. This is…
New management of GSEs says housing tax credits will not be dumped
Earlier I expressed concerns about the portfolios of Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) held by Fannie Mae and Freddie…
Texas should prioritize energy efficiency in low income housing development
Utility costs are a large and growing problem for low income families. We need to explore the cost effectiveness of…