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Tag: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing

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

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 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

Press release: Civil rights groups sue HUD over suspended implementation of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule

National issues, State issues•by •Posted May 8, 2018

Media Contacts: Kelli Johnson, Texas Appleseed, (512) 473-2800 x103, kjohnson@texasappleseed.net Christina Rosales, Texas Housers, (512) 477-8910, christina@texashousing.org Jessica Aiwuyor, NFHA,…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Fair Housing Act, lawsuit, press release

#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

Anti-source of income protection legislation signed into law

State issues•by •Posted June 22, 2015

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 267, officially banning any local ordinances that protect people with housing vouchers…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Fair housing, HUD, source of income, Texas Legislature

“Its Westchester on steroids”: HUD finds Dallas in non-compliance with fair housing laws, seeks sweeping remedies

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 2, 2013

“Its Westchester on steroids,” is how one civil rights advocate characterized HUD’s findings against the City of Dallas, referring to…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Civil rights, Dallas, Fair housing, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Riddle amendment to TDHCA Sunset bill is ill-conceived and discriminatory

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 29, 2013

I wrote last week about the ill-conceived amendment the Texas House of Representatives tacked onto the TDHCA Sunset bill. The…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Debbie Riddle, Fair housing, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, Low Income Housing Tax Credits

Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 29, 2012

Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica. Nikole Hannah-Jones of the news service Pro…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD, ProPublica, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD Approves Phase I of Texas Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing

State issues•by •Posted May 13, 2011

One of the conditions of the TxLIHIS – Texas Appleseed – State of Texas Fair Housing settlement on hurricane recovery…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Analysis of Impediments, Disaster recovery, Fair housing, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Subsidized Housing In Texas Often Fails to Provide Outreach to the Persons with Disabilities

State issues•by •Posted March 4, 2011

The Compliance Division of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs cites Failure to provide an Affirmative Marketing Plan…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, TDHCA

TxLIHIS Comments on Proposed 2011 QAP

State issues•by •Posted October 28, 2010

October 23, 2010 Ms. Robbye Meyer Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs P.O. Box 13941 Austin, TX 78711-3941 RE:…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, LIHTC, NIMBY, QAP, TDHCA
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