Karisa King of the San Antonio Epress News has an incredibly researched and very disturbing story in Sunday’s New York…
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 housing news clips: National home foreclosures and Galveston housing woes are top stories in recent weeks
Tuesday Report, April 17, 2012 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Wrangling between the Galveston Housing Authority…
Court rules Texas Housing Tax Credit program violates Fair Housing Act
This morning a federal court ruled in a case filed by a Dallas fair housing organization that the way the State…
Brian Potashnik to restart work outside TX new court filing says | dallasnews.com Crime Blog
Dallas Morning News reporter Jason Trahan has blogged that a Texas low income housing tax credit developer at the center…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-6-2012
Another federal program to help beleaguered homeowners has fizzled: after two years, less than 3 percent of a $7.6 billion…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-28-2012
Market analysts, eager to see silver linings after years of dark news, perceive a recovery in the housing industry as…
The Harris County Housing Authority gets motivated to act like the top 1 percent
If the previous blog post was not a sufficient indictment of the outrageous spending by the Harris County Housing Authority…
Harris County Housing Authority’s excesses exposed by Houston Chronicle
“Appalling. … One of the greater abuses of appointed office that I’ve seen,” Harris County Judge Ed Emmett told the Houston Chronicle. That does not…
NYT picks up on public housing rent increase issue
I was surprised to hear from the New York Times editorial staff around noon Tuesday. They wanted to know about…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-21-2012
A white paper released by the Fed that offered ways to revive the housing industry has drawn the ire of…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-14-2012
Although big banks are forfeiting $26 billion to settle with the federal government over fraud charges, the main change will…
HUD plays Grinch with its poorest tenants
A single mother with two children in Texas is potentially eligible to receive $260 per month from Temporary Assistance for…
In Texas state government the tail wags the dog in affordable housing policy
A citizen might expect the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) Board of Directors to spend most of…
New study shows 3 in 4 poor Texas families spend more than half of income for rent
Brace yourself for more bad news about the crisis in affordable rental housing for the poor in Texas. This study…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-7-2012
Present negotiations with big banks over reconciliation of sleazy mortgages would turn much of the enforcement over to states. Thus…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-14-2012
Although big banks are forfeiting $26 billion to settle with the federal government over fraud charges, the main change will…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-31-2012
Reporters snooping into Freddie Mac’s business dealings discover that the quasi-governmental organization makes money by screwing homeowners it’s supposed to…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-24-2012
A settlement between big banks and the government is expected this week. Homeowners screwed by robo-signing and other sleazy scams…
Dallas fumbles in the absence of a housing policy
Housing segregation is a problem most Texas communities struggle with. Crippled by a lack of political courage and leadership no…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-10-2012
Anticipating a done-deal, government prosecutors are expanding an offer to banks to drop charges in exchange for billions of dollars…
Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-3-2012
As desperate families jostle for position in lines for public housing, Congress slashes federal housing programs by $3.8 billion. The…
Housing News Clips – December 2011
Tuesday Report, Dec. 27, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Corruption in the nation’s banking industry…
Housing News Clips – November 2011
Tuesday Report, Nov. 1, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service As retribution for sleazy mortgage deals,…
Housing News Clips – October 2011
Tuesday Report, Oct. 4, 2011 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service The federal program to rescue “underwater”…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 9-20-2011
Mortgage defaults soar as bankers bear down on marginal borrowers. The 33 percent spike comes as Bank of America loses…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 8-23-2011
Depressed home sales nationwide signal that the end of the recession is nowhere near. Record low interest rates at 3.75…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 8-16-2011
Stale sales in the housing industry continue to spook builders as potential buyers are increasingly squeezed-out by the general economic…
Housing coalition responds to House committee vote to repeal National Housing Trust Fund
Earlier I posted the audio of the July 12 House committee hearing on repeal of the National Housing Trust Fund.…
When the overwhelming majority of good people don’t confront prejudice, an entire community suffers
I received a phone call yesterday from Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski about my June 25 blog post, “The racism of New Berlin…
Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 8-2-2011
As Congress finally acts, analysts are still pouring over the impacts of the debt-ceiling package — but a general belt-tightening…