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Tag: A Little Louder

A Little Louder Episode 50: What’s happening in housing at the 2023 Texas Legislature?

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 20, 2023

It’s a new year and a new session, the 88th to be exact, of the Texas Legislature. Communications Manager Michael…

Tags: A Little Louder, Tenant rights, Texas Legislature

A Little Louder Buzz Session #7: How did ERA really perform in Texas?

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 13, 2022

The Department of Treasury launched its Emergency Rental Assistance Program in March of 2021 with Texas receiving $2.4 billion dollars…

Tags: A Little Louder, ERA, evictions, US Treasury Department

A Little Louder Episode 49: Let’s Meet Texas Tenants For Change

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted November 23, 2022

This week, Texas Housers communications manager Michael Depland speaks with two members of Texas Tenants For Change – Myra and Beeper. The…

Tags: A Little Louder, Houser Academy, Tenant rights, Texas Legislature

A Little Louder Buzz Session #6: Breaking Down The QAP in 2023

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 7, 2022

As the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) ramps up its process to update the rules and scoring…

Tags: 2023 QAP, A Little Louder, QAP, TDHCA

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #5: Managing Code Violations in San Antonio

A Little Louder, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 8, 2022

Code violations are supposed to help maintain safety and hold the powerful accountable on behalf of community members, however they…

Tags: A Little Louder, buzz session, San Antonio, SAPMC

A Little Louder Episode 48: Five Years Later, Harvey Forgotten Survivors Caucus Speaks

A Little Louder, Harvey Recovery•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 2, 2022

Hurricane Harvey landed on Texas shores five years ago this week, dropping a historic amount of rain and flooding on…

Tags: A Little Louder, Disaster recovery, Harvey Forgotten Survivor Caucus, Hurricane Harvey

A Little Louder Episode 46: Intro to the Houser Academy

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted June 17, 2022

The genesis of any major change in social justice starts from the people. There is no substitute for lived experience;…

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A Little Louder Episode 45: Texas GLO and Discrimination

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 19, 2022

This week, HUD released its final determination that Texas GLO discriminated against Black and Hispanic Texans in its distribution of…

Tags: A Little Louder, CDBG MIT, Civil rights, Disaster recovery, Texas GLO

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session #4: Justices of the Peace are ignoring tenant protections

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 6, 2022

The power balance between tenants and landlords is usually tilted in the latter’s favor, and this is true in no…

Tags: A Little Louder, buzz session, evictions, jp court

A Little Louder Episode 44: Issues with Texas Rent Relief

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 15, 2022

The Emergency Rental Assistance program (ERA) has distributed at least $2.5 billion in the state of Texas with $1.9 billion…

Tags: A Little Louder, evictions, San Antonio

A Little Louder Episode 43: What could a Tenant Bill of Rights do for San Antonio?

A Little Louder, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 6, 2022

Texas Housers, alongside community members and Texas Organizing Project, have all strongly declared that San Antonio needs a Tenant Bill…

Tags: A Little Louder, San Antonio, Tenant Bill Of Rights, Tenant rights

A Little Louder Video Buzz Session 2: Lessons to learn from COVID

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 24, 2022

In our latest Buzz Session from A Little Louder, host John Henneberger sits with Texas Housers’ Southeast Texas regional director…

Tags: A Little Louder, buzz session, covid-19, eviction diversion program, evictions, rent relief

Update on ERA in Texas (VIDEO)

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 16, 2022

This Buzz Session from A Little Louder is an exclusive video from Housers’ research analyst Erin Hahn. In the clip,…

Tags: A Little Louder, ERA, evictions, rent relief

A Little Louder Episode 42: Expanding The Rights of Tenants In Austin with BASTA

A Little Louder, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 10, 2022

On this episode, John is joined by Shoshana Krieger of BASTA Austin who stops by to talk about the fights for tenants’…

Tags: A Little Louder, Austin, BASTA, Tenant rights

A Little Louder Podcast Episode 40: Demolition Deluge in San Antonio

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 10, 2021

A Little Louder is back with our latest episode and we are talking demolitions in San Antonio. On this week’s…

Tags: A Little Louder, Demolitions, San Antonio

A Little Louder Podcast Episode 39: Five things that need fixing in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program

A Little Louder, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted November 22, 2021

John is back in the booth for a new episode of A Little Louder! On this episode of A Little…

Tags: A Little Louder, Affordable housing, LIHTC

A Little Louder Podcast Episode 38: The American Rescue Plan Act and Tenants’ Rights

A Little Louder, State issues•by Michael Depland•Posted November 5, 2021

John is back in the booth for a new episode of A Little Louder! On the show the time, we…

Tags: A Little Louder, ARPA, ERA, rent relief, Texas Legislature

Podcast Episode 37: ERA and the Eviction Crisis in Texas

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 7, 2021

On our latest episode of A Little Louder, John is joined by several Housers to talk about rent relief and…

Tags: A Little Louder, ERA, evictions, rent relief

Podcast Episode 36: Who Can Afford The Rent In Texas?

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 14, 2021

The National Low Income Housing Coalition has released its Out of Reach report for 2021 and John and Christina are back in…

Tags: A Little Louder, NLIHC, Out of Reach

Podcast Episode 34: President Biden’s Executive Orders On Housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 29, 2021

It’s a new year and a new administration has moved into the White House. On the first day of the…

Tags: A Little Louder, AFFH, Fair Housing Act, HUD

Podcast #33: A temporary eviction moratorium and $1.9B for rent relief is coming to Texas

A Little Louder•by John Henneberger•Posted December 28, 2020

Congress passed and President Trump signed a pandemic relief bill granting a month-long extension of the current federal eviction moratorium…

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Podcast Episode 32: Searching For A Landlord To Take My Voucher

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 4, 2020

Housing vouchers should be the empowering ticket to housing peace of mind of low-income families and individuals. However, for far…

Tags: A Little Louder, Dallas, Source of Income discrimination

Podcast Episode 29: The Trouble With PFCs

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 9, 2020

After taking the summer off, A Little Louder is back on the air! Though there are only a few months…

Tags: A Little Louder, PFCs, Public facility corporations

Podcast Episode 28: The COVID-19 housing crisis

A Little Louder•by Michael Depland•Posted April 3, 2020

The news cycle under COVID-19 has operated at a breakneck pace. For many, it’s been difficult to track what the…

Tags: A Little Louder, cares act, covid-19, Houston

Podcast Episode 27: Addressing ‘The Gap’ for Low-Income Renters

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues•by Michael Depland•Posted March 20, 2020

Last week, the National Low Income Housing Coalition published their 2020 edition of The Gap report, which annually evaluates the…

Tags: A Little Louder, NLIHC, The Gap

Episode 21: The Stink Of Unequal Sewage

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 9, 2019

Housing inequality can often manifest in ways that many do not think of and some take for granted. For example,…

Tags: A Little Louder, Environmental justice, Sewage

Podcast Episode 14: El Sonido del Agua Part I

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted August 19, 2019

Season 2 of our podcast is live, and it starts with a deep dive into a multi-year drainage campaign in…

Tags: A Little Louder, ARISE, Colonias, drainage, LUCHA, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley

Podcast Episode 12: Juneteenth and Texas Freedom Colonies

A Little Louder•by Michael Depland•Posted June 14, 2019

Juneteenth is soon approaching in a few days, and in honor of the holiday, we spoke about the preservation of…

Tags: A Little Louder, freedom colonies, Juneteenth
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