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Tag: Building codes

Sunnyside neighborhood leaders release report with UT Law clinic on dangerous apartment conditions

Local issues, Subsidized Housing•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 7, 2018

This week, community leaders of the Sunnyside neighborhood in Houston released a report that shines a light on some of…

Tags: Building codes, Code enforcement, Housing, Housing news, Houston, Substandard housing, Sunnyside

Increasing Minimum Entry Door Width in Manufactured Housing

Housers Spotlight, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 11, 2011

TxLIHIS recently submitted Comments to the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC), a federal advisory committee to HUD on the regulation…

Tags: Accessibility, Building codes, Fair housing, HUD, manufactured housing

Changes to TX Residential Construction Commission do not fix the problem

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 21, 2008

In an earlier posting I applauded the decision of the Texas Sunset Commission staff to recommend the abolition of the…

Tags: Building codes, housing compliance

It is time to abolish the ineffective Texas Residential Construction Commission

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 22, 2008

The hopelessly flawed Texas Residential Construction Commission (TRCC) has been recommended for abolition by the Texas Sunset Commission staff.  The…

Tags: Building codes, housing compliance

Curbing substandard housing in rural Texas

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 20, 2008

Watch John Henneberger’s testimony before the Texas Seante International Relations and Trade Committee on substandard rural housing.  Read my written…

Tags: Building codes, Colonias, Rural housing, Substandard housing

Texas tempts fate and courts disaster

Disaster Recovery, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 6, 2008

Is it that we Texans like living dangerously? Are we just slow to learn? Or are we the victims of…

Tags: Building codes, Disaster recovery, Hurricane Rita
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