Yesterday’s oral arguments in the State of Texas’ appeal of the District Court’s ruling in the Inclusive Communities Project vs. Texas…
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’s Clips: Fannie and Freddie in the Black
An improved housing market puts Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back in the black and generating enough profit to repay…
2013 Texas Legislative Session Wrap Up
Here’s our wrap up of the major low-income housing issues in the 83rd regular session of the Texas legislature. TDHCA…
Bo’s Clips: More Mortgage Abuse
As the ink dries on a $25 billion settlement with the government last year, big banks resume their sleazy mortgage…
Senate Passes TDHCA Sunset
The Texas Senate passed out the TDHCA Sunset bill this afternoon. The bill voted out adopted the recommendations of the…
TDHCA Sunset Heads to Senate
TXLIHIS Co-Director John Henneberger testified this week at the Intergovernmental Relations Committee hearing on the TDHCA Sunset bill. His testimony…
Bo’s Clips: Continuing mortgage servicing abuses
While the housing industry slowly recovers, New York’ attorney general is suing big banks for continuing to scam borrowers. The…
Bo’s Clips: Minorities Pay More for Homes
Racial inequities in US housing ownership continue as a new report shows minorities pay more for their homes and are…
Riddle amendment to TDHCA Sunset bill is ill-conceived and discriminatory
I wrote last week about the ill-conceived amendment the Texas House of Representatives tacked onto the TDHCA Sunset bill. The…
TX House gives each state representative power to choose or veto housing tax credit developments
An eleventh hour amendment to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) Sunset bill by a strong opponent…
House Amends TDHCA Sunset Bill
The Texas House yesterday debated HB3361, the bill to continue the functions of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs…
Galveston agrees to steps to rebuild public housing
It appears that the rebuilding of the 569 public housing in Galveston demolished in the wake of Hurricane Ike may be…
Bo’s Clips: Wall Street Betting on Single Family
As the housing recovery stalls, big banks move in to grab the bargains, leaving low-income buyers languishing. Market analysts speculate…
Bo’s Clips: Houston Looks for Work Force Housing
Houston planners are proposing to develop more work force housing for middle income households inside the inner loop. The mayor…
State halts Galveston funding over failure to build public housing: TX Land Commissioner Patterson explains
By Jerry Patterson The city of Galveston has a choice to make as we try to move forward with plans…
Bo’s Clips: Dallas Council Member Blames Plano for Dallas Homeless
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac begin to make write-downs on troubled mortgages as they post a 2012 profit of $17.2…
Bo’s News Clips: Ft Worth Voids Housing Vouchers
The reality of federal cuts hit the poor first with HUD preparing to cut 100,000 Section 8 vouchers nationwide. Anticipating…
Rep. Anchia Files Bill Removing Legislative Letters from Housing Tax Credit Scoring
In a previous blog post here at Texas Housers, we presented an analysis showing that the letters written by Texas…
NYTimes Endorses Funding National Housing Trust Fund
Last Sunday’s New York Times contained an editorial stating “with nearly 3.3 million families with children living in “worst case”…
Bo’s News Clips: Foreclosure Settlement
Ten major banks are settling with the Federal Reserve to repay bilked borrowers $5.2 billion in direct assistance. The settlement…
NYTimes on housing tax credits gets it right on funding, targeting poor, wrong on promoting segregation
A Tax Credit Worth Preserving – NYTimes.com. We think the New York Times editorial on housing got it two-thirds…
Bo’s news clips: More affordable housing for Austin’s Mueller community
The rigging of an international lending rate may have cost Fannie and Freddie Mac $3 billion in borrowing costs. While…
Bo’s news clips: S TX housing shortage caused by the area’s oil and gas boom
As the nation prepares to cut budgets in light of the “fiscal cliff,” federal housing programs for poor households receive…
Bo’s news clips: “tiny people, building their tiny houses.”
As the economy slowly improves, persons pressed into crowded households are relocating to new units, but some stay in extended…
Bo’s housing clips: Improvements in national housing economy
A weak but slowly recovering housing industry become the rally point for the US economy as home equity improves to…
Once again recovery from a hurricane bypasses the poor
A New York Times editorial laments the type of government neglect that public housing residents in Texas know all too…
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica. Nikole Hannah-Jones of the news service Pro…
Bo McCarver’s housing news clips for May
DOJ receives rare praise in financial crisis cases By Aruna Viswanatha Reuters May 25, 2012 One part of the Justice…
Bo’s housing news clips: Study finds zoning segregates lower-income students in lower-scoring schools.
A news analysis of Texas’ allocation of federal housing funds shows the process fosters continued segregation. Although the HUD programs…
Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months
Reporter Karisa King’s full Texas housing story is out in the San Antonio Express News. It is a devastating expose…