It’s right there in the name: The Housing Choice Voucher program is supposed to provide families with vouchers with a…
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.
An open letter to Governor Abbott: Veto SB 267 and protect fair housing in Texas
After the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 267, which outlaws local ordinances prohibiting discrimination against people who receive federal housing assistance,…
Video: Austin veteran’s experience with homelessness shows the need for strong housing voucher protections
A year ago, Samantha didn’t know about housing vouchers for veterans. She’d never needed to. “I just had never needed…
Legacy of housing segregation felt in McKinney pool incident
On Saturday, the latest in our country’s recent series of ugly police confrontations with African-Americans occurred in a seemingly unlikely place: A community…
My remarks at the University of Texas School of Architecture commencement: “Hit a lick against what’s wrong or say a word for what’s right”
Yesterday I had the honor to deliver the keynote speech at the 102nd commencement ceremony for the School of Architecture at the…
Update: Texas House approves statewide source of income protection ban
Update 5/23: The House voted 93-44, with one representative voting ‘present’ vote and 12 absent, to pass SB 267 on third reading…
Room for improvement in San Antonio task force’s plan to combat gentrification
A committee of political leaders and citizens formed to address gentrification in San Antonio, the Mayor’s Task Force on Preserving…
Place matters: New research on income mobility for low income families
A landmark new study by The Equality of Opportunity Project, a research collaboration between Harvard University and the University of…
Texas House committee hears anti-source of income protection bill
The Texas House Committee on Urban Affairs heard testimony on Tuesday night on HB 2909, a bill that would ban…
Update: Source of income protection reaches Texas Senate floor
Update 4/1: The Senate did not hear a third reading on CSSB 267 on Wednesday. The bill remains under consideration…
Mapping the Austin Apartment Association’s opposition to source of income protection
In January, our co-director, John Henneberger, wrote in the Austin American-Statesman about the distressing similarities between Austin’s fair housing battles in…
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifts order barring Austin’s Source of Income protection ordnance
This afternoon the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans vacated its order blocking immediate implementation…
To this day some are lined up on the wrong side of the bridge, blocking the march to integration
Fifty years ago today, hundreds of brave men and women marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to…
An important look at the context behind Supreme Court case on Texas housing segregation
This week’s cover story in the Fort Worth Weekly illustrates exactly why the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive…
What’s next for source of income protection in Austin?
On Friday, a federal district judge rejected the Austin Apartment Association’s challenge to source of income protection in Austin. The…
“This court is not persuaded” – U.S. District Court rejects Austin Apartment Association challenge to city fair housing ordinance
In a ruling this afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks rejected a motion for preliminary injunction by the Austin Apartment Association…
Video: Texas Senate committee briefed on affordable housing issues
This week our co-director, John Henneberger, was asked to speak before the state Senate’s Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, to brief members…
No surprise: National gentrification report lists Austin near the top
A new study backs up what Austinites already know to be true: Austin is one of most gentrifying cities in…
What you need to know about HUD’s National Housing Trust Fund regulations
Yesterday the National Low Income Housing Coalition held an informative webinar on the regulations for the National Housing Trust Fund…
Evita Cruz: Source of income discrimination leaves families vulnerable
This is part of a series about tenants who have faced discrimination because of their source of income. Watch Evita…
Austin Tenants’ Council study illuminates source of income discrimination
Austin’s new ordinance protecting renters from discrimination based on their source of income faces dual challenges, a lawsuit from the Austin…
HUD denies Beaumont housing plan that perpetuates segregation
The federal government will not support segregated housing in Beaumont, Texas. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)…
Austin’s new fair housing fight is a flashback to the Civil Rights era
In a column today in the Austin American-Statesman, our co-director John Henneberger highlights how little the opposition to fair housing in…
Those who seek to limit Fair Housing law should be asked about Beaumont, Texas
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States takes up a case about housing discrimination in Dallas that has brought national…
What’s really at stake for low-income families of color in the Inclusive Communities Supreme Court case
On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court of the United States will begin to hear arguments in Texas Department of Housing…
City of Dallas signs Fair Housing conciliation agreement with HUD
Today the City of Dallas signed a Fair Housing conciliation agreement with HUD. Click to access dallas-hud-executed-vca.pdf Major provisions include:…
A Texas houser’s thoughts on the State of Texas’ appeal of the Dallas fair housing case to the Supreme Court
As a whole, Texas has made some real progress toward equal opportunity and fair housing in the forty-six years since…
Austin City Council moves to adopt fair housing “source of income” protection
The Austin City Council today unanimously passed on first reading an amendment to the Austin Fair Housing Ordnance to prohibit landlords from rejecting…
Galveston Housing Authority declares firm commitment to Fair Housing as construction begins
A groundbreaking ceremony last Wednesday was the occasion for the leaders of the Galveston Housing Authority (GHA) to proclaim their…
Opponents of public housing in Galveston file lawsuit claiming rebuilding public housing would further segregation
This situation is simply so bizarre it speaks for itself. From today’s Houston Chronicle GALVESTON – Opponents of public housing…