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Tag: AFFH

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

AFFH is the housing equivalent of cell phone videos in the George Floyd murder — the essential tool to expose racism

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 29, 2020

I am a third generation Texan who has spent most of my life investigating the role of government in racial…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFH

Texas Housers defends AFFH rule in statement to Congressional Oversight Committee for ‘Fair Housing Accountability’ hearing

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 5, 2020

On February 5, Congress is holding a hearing entitled “The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability” to discuss…

Tags: AFFH, Congress, HUD

Podcast Episode 23: The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted January 24, 2020

There is no question that the impetus for Congress passing and President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1968 Fair Housing…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Civil rights, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, Podcast

Texas Housers opposes HUD’s further retreat from promoting and enforcing fair housing

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 9, 2020

This week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Secretary Ben Carson abdicated its role as the country’s…

Tags: AFFH, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD

Texas Housers and advocacy partners receive support in lawsuit against HUD over failure to enforce fair housing law

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted June 8, 2018

Numerous cities and states, including the City of Austin, as well as housing and anti-poverty advocates, filed amicus briefs this…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, ben carson, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD, lawsuit, national fair housing alliance

Jurisdictions must uphold fair housing obligations, despite delay of key 2015 HUD rule

National issues•by •Posted January 9, 2018

HUD’s Postponement of the New Fair Housing Rule from Texas Housers on Vimeo. Last week the Trump administration announced that…

Tags: AFFH, Fair Housing Act, HUD

Fair housing assessment in Rio Grande Valley offers chance for residents to fight segregated conditions

Local issues•by •Posted August 18, 2017

Discrimination is not always obvious in the Rio Grande Valley. But now Hidalgo County residents have a chance to weigh in on…

Tags: AFFH, Colonias, Fair housing, HUD, Rio Grande Valley

Austin City Council votes to sue state for prohibiting protections against voucher discrimination

Local issues•by •Posted August 17, 2017

Austin is finally fighting back against the state’s efforts to block a critical anti-discrimination protection. In 2014, the City of…

Tags: AFFH, Austin, Fair housing, source of income, Texas Legislature

From the Houston Chronicle: Why Houston remains segregated

Uncategorized•by •Posted February 17, 2017

This piece ran in the Gray Matters section of the Houston Chronicle on February 16. Texas Housers Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay…

Tags: AFFH, Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, HUD, segregation

Guest viewpoint: HUD must do no harm to health equity by furthering fair housing

National issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted February 3, 2017

This is a guest post from Dr. Bakeyah Nelson, a public health practitioner and founder of Community Health Collaborative Consulting in…

Tags: AFFH, Health, HUD

IRS indicates fair housing issues with Texas political influence on tax credits

Uncategorized•by •Posted January 9, 2017

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued a bulletin that reprimands a thinly-veiled “Agency” in “State X” for its reliance on local support…

Tags: AFFH, Disparate impact, Fair housing, LIHTC, Tax credits, TDHCA

How City actions perpetuate Houston’s housing segregation and violate civil rights

Local issues•by •Posted December 16, 2016

Every neighborhood in Houston deserves quality affordable housing, including the community of Independence Heights. But affordable housing should not only be…

Tags: AFFH, Crosstimbers, Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, Houston Housing Authority, HUD

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

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

A push to embrace fair housing reality in the Dallas area

State issues•by •Posted January 6, 2016

During a prominent time for fair housing in America, the Dallas area has been the epicenter, thanks in large part…

Tags: AFFH, Dallas, Fair housing, HUD, ICP, source of income

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

Secretary Castro marks HUD’s 50th anniversary in Austin

National issues•by •Posted September 9, 2015

At the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, 50 years to the day since President Lyndon B. Johnson established the…

Tags: AFFH, Austin, Fair housing, HUD, julian castro, Mobility, Revitalization, source of income

#ZipCodeMatters: HUD issues new and important fair housing regulation

National issues•by •Posted July 8, 2015

The Obama administration has just announced a much-anticipated regulation designed to make the Fair Housing Act more effective at eliminating…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Disparate impact, Fair housing, HUD
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