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A Little Louder Episode 42: Expanding The Rights of Tenants In Austin with BASTA
On this episode, John is joined by Shoshana Krieger of BASTA Austin who stops by to talk about the fights for tenants’…
Episode 18: The Power of Renters
More than one-third of households in Texas are renters, and in Austin, more than half of residents rent their homes.…
Who has the right to live here? Austin’s fifty year fight over fair housing
The right to fair housing stands out among civil rights laws as the one that has historically received the most…
Sweeping new fair and affordable housing proposed by three Austin City Council members
Austin City Council members Garza, Renteria, and Casar have announced a sweeping progressive fair and affordable housing agenda. Here is…
Austin City Council votes to sue state for prohibiting protections against voucher discrimination
Austin is finally fighting back against the state’s efforts to block a critical anti-discrimination protection. In 2014, the City of…
Saturday rally in Austin to kick off national week of action against federal housing cuts
The Trump administration’s proposed 2018 budget cuts for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would hit Texas hard.…
Recommendations for getting the most out of Austin’s proposed CodeNEXT density bonus program
The CodeNEXT Density Bonus is a remarkable opportunity to achieve greater ethnic, racial and economic diversity and integration in Austin. If…
49 years after Dr. King’s death, Austin leaders offer a sweeping blueprint to racially integrate neighborhoods
Forty-nine years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today Austin is proclaiming, in a manner that…
Henneberger, City Shaper: Austin’s diversity deserves to be cultivated and protected
Austin’s Tribeza Magazine has named Texas Housers co-director John Henneberger an “Austin City Shaper.” Here is their recognition of John (pictured in…
A plan for increasing Austin’s affordable housing, racial and economic diversity
Austin is experiencing a moment of anxiety and introspection unlike any I have seen since I came here 44 years…
Austin for everyone: Building an inclusive, diverse city begins in every neighborhood
[The following remarks were delivered before the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects on June 21, 2016.] I…
Austin’s proposed development codes and building the inclusive community
I live today just outside Clarksville, where three decades ago low income African-American families, aided by a handful of supporters, waged a landmark…
Austin City Council approves homestead preservation districts
The Austin City Council cast a long-awaited vote on December 17, approving the creation of homestead preservations districts in the…
CDC Spotlight: Preserving affordability and diversity in East Austin
Community development corporations (CDCs) are the lifeblood of the low income housing movement, building quality affordable homes and preserving diversity…
CDC Spotlight: Fending off gentrification one block at a time in Blackland
Community development corporations (CDCs) are the lifeblood of the low income housing movement, building quality affordable homes and preserving…
Secretary Castro marks HUD’s 50th anniversary in Austin
At the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, 50 years to the day since President Lyndon B. Johnson established the…
Spirit of East Austin forum invites neighbors to discuss development and inequality
On September 12, Austin residents and city leaders, including our co-director, John Henneberger, will gather to discuss the future of…
Still waiting for help: The lessons of Hurricane Katrina on poverty
This article was originally published on The Conversation, and is republished here in accordance with their Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives license.…
Texas is no longer a good example of source of income protection
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro appeared on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio on…
Five things the City of Austin can do to reduce landlord discrimination against housing voucher holders
Readers will recall that, at the behest of the Austin Apartment Association, the Texas Legislature passed and Governor Abbott signed…
UT report finds City of Austin doing little about dangerous rental housing conditions
The Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, directed by our friend (and previous…
US Department of Justice and HUD file brief in support of Austin’s Fair Housing Ordinance
HUD and the US Department of Justice have filed a brief against the appeal filed by the Austin Apartment Association…
Video: Austin veteran’s experience with homelessness shows the need for strong housing voucher protections
A year ago, Samantha didn’t know about housing vouchers for veterans. She’d never needed to. “I just had never needed…
Update: Texas House approves statewide source of income protection ban
Update 5/23: The House voted 93-44, with one representative voting ‘present’ vote and 12 absent, to pass SB 267 on third reading…
Heather Way: The myth about the inclusionary zoning ban in Texas
This piece by Heather Way is reprinted with her permission. Way is a clinical professor of law and directs the Entrepreneurship and Community…
Does source of income protection work?
Both chambers of the Texas Legislature are currently considering bills that would ban local governments from enacting source of income protection…
Mayor Adler’s State of the City address emphasizes Austin’s problems with housing affordability
The Austin American-Statesman described Austin Mayor Steve Adler’s State of the City address, which he delivered on Monday, as “somber.” We…
Remembering Homer the homeless goose
Today TxLIHIS remembers Homer the homeless goose, who died last month just shy of his 27th birthday. Homer gained national…
Mapping the Austin Apartment Association’s opposition to source of income protection
In January, our co-director, John Henneberger, wrote in the Austin American-Statesman about the distressing similarities between Austin’s fair housing battles in…