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Houston flooding plan fails to provide needed investment or protect civil rights

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted August 23, 2016

On August 18, 2016, I provided testimony at a public hearing over the City of Houston’s draft Action Plan for Community…

Tags: drainage, Flooding, Houston, Infrastructure

How state legislators can improve fair housing compliance in Texas

Uncategorized•by •Posted August 17, 2016

Texas Housers fair housing planner Charlie Duncan and University of Texas professor Heather Way were among the speakers at a…

Tags: AFFH, Charlie Duncan, Fair housing, Heather Way, HUD, ICP, Texas Legislature

Hands-on training for colonia leaders emphasizes role of government in solving problems

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted July 28, 2016

Cris Rocha, a community organizer with La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), welcomed the group and Norma Aldape, a LUPE member and…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, Inequality, LUCHA, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley

Video: Community discussion on history of inequality and injustice in the Rio Grande Valley

Uncategorized•by •Posted July 21, 2016

Inequality is stark in the Rio Grande Valley, but for many, its causes remain hidden. In order to overcome the consequences…

Tags: Colonias, Platica, Rio Grande Valley

City of Houston, [bc]Workshop, TOP deserve the national recognition for engaging community and consumers to design better homes

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 14, 2016

Congratulations to our friends and partners at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP [bc], Texas Organizing Project (TOP) and to the City of Houston Housing and…

Tags: bcWorkshop, Design, HUD, TOP

State interference threatens Galveston’s promise of equitable disaster recovery

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 14, 2016

Eight years ago, Galveston was devastated by Hurricane Ike. Four years ago, at the urging of the Texas General Land…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Fair housing, Galveston, GLO, HUD

Join us for the first Plática discussion about inequality in the Rio Grande Valley on July 6

Uncategorized•by •Posted June 28, 2016

Inequality in the Rio Grande Valley is more extreme than most anywhere in the United States. It is seen in…

A builder of The Beloved Community passes – who’s gonna fill her shoes?

Local issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted June 17, 2016

Photo: Charles Smith, Katherine Poole, Councilwoman Sally Shipman in the midst of fight to save Blackland neighborhood from University of Texas expansion (ca.…

Tags: Blackland, Blackland Neighborhood Development Corporation, Integration, Katherine Poole, The Beloved Community

Radio interview with our Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay on the consequences of NIMBYism

Uncategorized•by •Posted June 6, 2016

Texas Housers Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay appeared on Houston Matters, the public affairs radio show from Houston Public Media, to discuss how…

Tags: Fair housing, Houston, NIMBY

Out of Reach 2016: Report finds no affordable housing in Texas for minimum wage workers

National issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted May 25, 2016

No matter where in Texas you live, if you earn the minimum wage, you cannot afford your rent. That’s the harsh…

Tags: NLIHC, Out of Reach

Years of organizing lead to vital stormwater drainage project for Rio Grande Valley colonias

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted May 20, 2016

Inequality is most starkly manifested in the differences between rich and poor neighborhoods. And nowhere is inequality greater than in the…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, Disaster recovery, drainage, Flooding, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley, Zika

More of the same: Houston risks fair housing progress, adds to segregation

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted May 19, 2016

There have been some recent signs that Houston is slowly accepting the need to practice fair housing and treat all…

Tags: AFFH, Crestmont, Fair housing, Fountain View, HHA, Houston, LIHTC

Advocates: Let’s get the National Housing Trust Fund details right from the beginning

National issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted May 18, 2016

This piece originally ran on Shelterforce Magazine’s Rooflines blog. It’s rare when a major new national housing program comes along.…

Tags: Credit, Criminal background, Eviction, Fair housing, Low barrier, National Housing Trust Fund

Colonia youth take charge to protect neighbors from contamination

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted May 4, 2016

As discussed in our staff conversation last week, there has been a shameful lack of government oversight around the toxic contamination of…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, Donna Lake, Environmental justice, Rio Grande Valley

Making the most of the National Housing Trust Fund in Texas

Uncategorized•by •Posted April 29, 2016

The National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) is the first dedicated source of funding for extremely low income households in decades. Its…

Tags: National Housing Trust Fund

#ReentryWeek: Sunnyside residents have a vision for fair chances at housing

Local issues, National issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted April 28, 2016

The U.S. Justice Department has declared this week “National Reentry Week” to shed light on the challenges faced by formerly…

Tags: Criminal justice, Houston, Sunnyside

Report: Texas childhood poverty largely divided by place and race

State issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted April 13, 2016

African-American and Hispanic children in Texas are around three times likelier to live in poverty than white children. That’s one of…

Tags: Fair housing, Poverty

After Oregon vote, Texas becomes only state with inclusionary zoning ban

State issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted March 18, 2016

And then there was one: The Oregon Senate has approved a housing bill that repeals the state’s ban on inclusionary…

Tags: Affordable housing, Inclusionary zoning

Houstonians should be angry about public housing – because of segregation

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted February 23, 2016

Note: A version of this post ran in the Gray Matters section of the Houston Chronicle on March 30. Our piece on…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, HHA, Houston, public housing

Texas Observer features colonia organizing effort to prevent flooding

Uncategorized•by •Posted February 11, 2016

A new in-depth story on the Texas Observer website details the organizing efforts of colonia residents in the Rio Grande Valley to…

What’s behind the opposition to public housing in a high opportunity area in Houston?

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted February 9, 2016

(Update: After receiving a great deal of feedback on this post – see the comment section below – we posted…

Tags: Fair housing, Houston, Houston Housing Authority, public housing

Texas Observer cover story highlights how state legislators block affordable housing

Uncategorized•by •Posted February 1, 2016

In August we released our 2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit Report, an in-depth examination of how last year’s state process of…

Tags: Fair housing, Tax credits

Street light installation finally begins as colonia residents celebrate victory

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted January 19, 2016

Above: Residents of Colonia Goolie Meadows enjoy the illumination provided by their new street lights. Last week marked another milestone in…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley, street lights

EPA hears testimony on civil rights and environmental injustice in Houston

Uncategorized•by •Posted January 13, 2016

On January 12, Texas Housers Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay testified (pictured above) at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public listening…

Tags: CES, Environmental justice, EPA, Houston

Youth organizing group advances environmental justice project in the Rio Grande Valley

Uncategorized•by •Posted January 12, 2016

Above: Josué (far left) and the leaders of the South Tower Power campaign at the City of Alamo Wastewater Treatment…

HUD issues guidelines for new fair housing regulation

National issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted January 5, 2016

On the last day of 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the final version of its…

Tags: AFFH, Fair housing, HUD

Best of the Texas Housers blog 2015

Uncategorized•by •Posted December 31, 2015

2015 was quite a year for Texas Housers – our staff grew, more people read our website than ever before and…

Eight years after hurricanes, Texas disaster recovery efforts are $1 billion behind

State issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted December 29, 2015

The Texas Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee (IGR) has begun to investigate the failures of the state’s disaster recovery process, finding that…

Tags: Disaster recovery, RAPIDO, Texas Legislature

CDC Spotlight: A holistic approach to housing in Brownsville

Uncategorized•by •Posted December 3, 2015

Community development corporations (CDCs) are the lifeblood of the low income housing movement, building quality affordable homes and preserving diversity…

Tags: Affordable housing, Brownsville, CDC, CDC Spotlight, CDCB, Rio Grande Valley

Fate of housing programs uncertain as Congress approaches budget deadline

National issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted November 24, 2015

The complicated year-end Congressional budget process got messier the week before Thanksgiving, as the controversy over refugee resettlement became embroiled with…

Tags: Congress, HOME, National Housing Trust Fund, NHTF

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