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Tag: Austin

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

Episode 18: The Power of Renters

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by •Posted October 11, 2019

More than one-third of households in Texas are renters, and in Austin, more than half of residents rent their homes.…

Tags: Austin, BASTA, Fair housing, Renters, Tenant rights

Who has the right to live here? Austin’s fifty year fight over fair housing

Local issues, National issues•by Karen Paup•Posted April 5, 2018

The right to fair housing stands out among civil rights laws as the one that has historically received the most…

Tags: Austin, Fair housing, History

Sweeping new fair and affordable housing proposed by three Austin City Council members

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 4, 2018

Austin City Council members Garza, Renteria, and Casar have announced a sweeping progressive fair and affordable housing agenda. Here is…

Tags: Affordable housing, Austin, Fair housing

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

Saturday rally in Austin to kick off national week of action against federal housing cuts

Uncategorized•by •Posted July 21, 2017

The Trump administration’s proposed 2018 budget cuts for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would hit Texas hard.…

Tags: Affordable housing, Austin, HUD, NLIHC

Recommendations for getting the most out of Austin’s proposed CodeNEXT density bonus program

Local issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2017

The CodeNEXT Density Bonus is a remarkable opportunity to achieve greater ethnic, racial and economic diversity and integration in Austin. If…

Tags: Austin, CodeNext, Fair housing

49 years after Dr. King’s death, Austin leaders offer a sweeping blueprint to racially integrate neighborhoods

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 4, 2017

  Forty-nine years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today Austin is proclaiming, in a manner that…

Tags: Austin, Fair housing, Housing segregation, Integration, Mayor's Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequalities, racial segregation, Residential Segregation

Henneberger, City Shaper: Austin’s diversity deserves to be cultivated and protected

Local issues•by Karen Paup•Posted February 20, 2017

Austin’s Tribeza Magazine has named Texas Housers co-director John Henneberger an “Austin City Shaper.” Here is their recognition of John (pictured in…

Tags: Austin, Clarksville, John Henneberger

A plan for increasing Austin’s affordable housing, racial and economic diversity

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 5, 2017

Austin is experiencing a moment of anxiety and introspection unlike any I have seen since I came here 44 years…

Tags: Austin

Austin for everyone: Building an inclusive, diverse city begins in every neighborhood

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 21, 2016

[The following remarks were delivered before the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects on June 21, 2016.] I…

Tags: Austin, CodeNext, Fair housing

Austin’s proposed development codes and building the inclusive community

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted May 7, 2016

I live today just outside Clarksville, where three decades ago low income African-American families, aided by a handful of supporters, waged a landmark…

Tags: Austin, Clarksville, CodeNext

Austin City Council approves homestead preservation districts

Local issues•by •Posted December 18, 2015

The Austin City Council cast a long-awaited vote on December 17, approving the creation of homestead preservations districts in the…

Tags: Affordable housing, Austin, Gentrification, Homestead preservation district

CDC Spotlight: Preserving affordability and diversity in East Austin

Local issues•by •Posted December 7, 2015

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

Tags: Affordable housing, Austin, CDC, CDC Spotlight, Community development corporations, east austin, Gentrification, Guadalupe

CDC Spotlight: Fending off gentrification one block at a time in Blackland

Local issues•by •Posted November 30, 2015

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

Tags: Affordable housing, Austin, Blackland, CDC, CDC Spotlight, Gentrification

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

Spirit of East Austin forum invites neighbors to discuss development and inequality

Local issues•by •Posted September 3, 2015

On September 12, Austin residents and city leaders, including our co-director, John Henneberger, will gather to discuss the future of…

Tags: Austin, City of Austin, east austin, Gentrification, segregation

Still waiting for help: The lessons of Hurricane Katrina on poverty

Local issues•by •Posted August 31, 2015

This article was originally published on The Conversation, and is republished here in accordance with their Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives license.…

Tags: Austin, Hurricane Katrina, Poverty, Republished

Texas is no longer a good example of source of income protection

State issues•by •Posted August 17, 2015

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro appeared on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio on…

Tags: Austin, HUD, julian castro, racial segregation, source of income, Voucher discrimination

Five things the City of Austin can do to reduce landlord discrimination against housing voucher holders

Local issues•by Karen Paup•Posted August 14, 2015

Readers will recall that, at the behest of the Austin Apartment Association, the Texas Legislature passed and Governor Abbott signed…

Tags: Austin, Discrimination, racial segregation, source of income

UT report finds City of Austin doing little about dangerous rental housing conditions

Local issues•by •Posted July 31, 2015

The Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, directed by our friend (and previous…

Tags: Austin, Heather Way, Rental housing, Tenant rights

US Department of Justice and HUD file brief in support of Austin’s Fair Housing Ordinance

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2015

HUD and the US Department of Justice have filed a brief against the appeal filed by the Austin Apartment Association…

Tags: Austin, Austin Apartment Association, City of Austin, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Housing Discrimination

Video: Austin veteran’s experience with homelessness shows the need for strong housing voucher protections

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted June 12, 2015

A year ago, Samantha didn’t know about housing vouchers for veterans. She’d never needed to. “I just had never needed…

Tags: Austin, Discrimination, Fair housing, source of income, veterans

Update: Texas House approves statewide source of income protection ban

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted May 22, 2015

Update 5/23: The House voted 93-44, with one representative voting ‘present’ vote and 12 absent, to pass SB 267 on third reading…

Tags: Austin, Dallas, HUD, source of income, Texas Legislature

Heather Way: The myth about the inclusionary zoning ban in Texas

State issues•by •Posted May 15, 2015

This piece by Heather Way is reprinted with her permission. Way is a clinical professor of law and directs the Entrepreneurship and Community…

Tags: Austin, Inclusionary zoning, Texas Legislature

Does source of income protection work?

Local issues•by •Posted May 5, 2015

Both chambers of the Texas Legislature are currently considering bills that would ban local governments from enacting source of income protection…

Tags: Austin, Discrimination, source of income

Mayor Adler’s State of the City address emphasizes Austin’s problems with housing affordability

Uncategorized•by •Posted April 21, 2015

The Austin American-Statesman described Austin Mayor Steve Adler’s State of the City address, which he delivered on Monday, as “somber.” We…

Tags: Affordable housing, Austin, Poverty

Remembering Homer the homeless goose

Local issues•by •Posted April 6, 2015

Today TxLIHIS remembers Homer the homeless goose, who died last month just shy of his 27th birthday. Homer gained national…

Tags: Austin, Homelessness, Homer the goose

Mapping the Austin Apartment Association’s opposition to source of income protection

Uncategorized•by •Posted March 20, 2015

In January, our co-director, John Henneberger, wrote in the Austin American-Statesman about the distressing similarities between Austin’s fair housing battles in…

Tags: Austin, Austin Apartment Association, source of income

What’s next for source of income protection in Austin?

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted March 3, 2015

On Friday, a federal district judge rejected the Austin Apartment Association’s challenge to source of income protection in Austin. The…

Tags: Austin, Austin Apartment Association, Fair housing, housing voucher, local control, Section 8, source of income, Texas Legislature

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