Who would have thought we would be looking at a federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Because it…
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.
State housing agency board acts fiscally responsibly on LIHTC awards
My compliments to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) board of directors who rejected pleas from low…
Texas Senate committee hears strong support for Texas Housing Trust Fund
A chorus of voices spoke up for an increase in the Texas Housing Trust Fund in testimony this week before…
A critical moment in the housing tax credit program looms
On August 14 the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) hosted a “work group” to gather input on…
Dallas Morning News op-ed makes economic argument against housing segregation
An extensive opinion piece headlined, Poor assumptions: segregating poverty in Dallas is a money-losing proposition authored by Dallas Morning News…
Part 1: 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, still waiting for integrated communities
It is interesting and a little discouraging that on the 40th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, part of the…
Reporter alleges Section 8 tenant crime wave, but where is the evidence?
The elite media has decided to focus on whether Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders are bringing crime to suburban…
Something went terribly wrong at the Pleasant Village Apartments
“This is a terrible place to live, and I just don’t know how to get out.” – a resident of…
Focusing on the big picture of housing assistance
Let’s take a step back and focus on the big picture of housing assistance using this chart I have prepared…
Texas Housercast: Talking energy saving and green building in low income housing
This week’s Texas housercast is an interview with Walter Moreau, executive director of Austin’s Foundation Communities the state’s largest nonprofit…
Dallas Housing Authority director resigns under pressure – this is one tough job
Ann Lott, executive director of the Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) has resigned under pressure from members of the housing authority’s…
New housing bill presents TDHCA a test of its public purpose
When President Bush signed the big housing bill Wednesday he ushered in a number of changes to the Low Income…
Understanding public attitudes toward public housing
Amidst a lot of anger and outrage directed at a proposed development in Northeast Austin proposing to provide transitional housing…
Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Dallas frozen and challanged in lawsuit
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Dallas has been effectively shut down for several years and is now…
It is too late for two children but now is the time for Houston to act on slum apartments
It happened again last night. More kids were hurt, this time killed, in the slum apartments the city of Houston…
VISTAs make good things happen in housing
We have a new VISTA volunteer at the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service and I am once again reminded…
Recalling the prehistory of public housing in Texas
Watch our interview with Professor Fox on the origins of public housing in Texas. A number of years ago Karen…
The effect of the Fannie/Freddie meltdown on affordable housing
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares are falling like a rock. The Bush Administration is said to be working on…
The voice of consumers is missing in judging subsidized housing
Low income tenants are seldom consulted about the quality of housing that the government builds for them. I have long…
Unraveling the mystery of 500 unused Dallas Section 8 vouchers
The Dallas Morning News ran a story by Kim Horner on June 23 about 500 Section 8 vouchers that have…
The best (and worst) performing Texas public housing authorities according to HUD
In the course of updating our databases of all the multifamily subsidized housing in Texas this week I manually extracted…
Part 2: Housing segregation in Austin – a community blind to the problem
Watch my video blog or read the text below. Austin is a city of intense racial and economic segregation. Despite…
Lingering concerns about Texas Hurricane Rita home rebuilding
I am supporting the the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs Round 2 plan for CDBG housing assistance for…
Save the TX State Affordable Housing Corporation by giving it a new mission
On Tuesday, June 24 the Texas Sunset Commission will meet to make a recommendation to the next Texas Legislature whether…
National fixes for post disaster housing programs
I have posted the testimony I presented to Congress regarding how the federal government can betterprovide long-term housing disaster assistance…
Recommendations for state action to prevent displacement of low income people from gentrifying neighborhoods
A group of us have been kicking around ideas to address the problem of the involuntary displacement of low income…
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…
TX Senate studies housing
In the previous post Karen Paup brought up the inclusionary zoning issue at the Texas Legislature. I pointed out that…