In states like Texas, we know the seriousness that natural disasters must be treated with. Without preparation and plans in…
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Parallel Roads of Disaster Recovery: A Week in Puerto Rico – Part 1
This blog is the first of a four part series. The following events are Julia Orduña’s recollections while traveling for…
Read Northeast Action Collective and Texas Housers’ joint call on HUD to uphold civil rights where Texas has failed
The Northeast Action Collective and Texas Housers continue to call on HUD to use all of its power to enforce…
Texas GLO must enter Voluntary Compliance Agreement or Southeast Texas communities of color will continue losing livelihoods and lives
In March of 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development determined that the Texas General Land Office was discriminatory…
A Little Louder Episode 45: Texas GLO and Discrimination
This week, HUD released its final determination that Texas GLO discriminated against Black and Hispanic Texans in its distribution of…
HUD finds that Texas GLO discriminated against communities of color in $4 billion CDBG-MIT program
In a historic victory for communities of color in Houston and the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban…
HUD stopping State of Texas’s misuse of federal disaster mitigation funds is not about paperwork or politics, it’s about saying no to discrimination
There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigation…
Texas GLO’s Mitigation Plan Amendment fails to rectify discrimination in mitigation funding. Here are our official comments.
Texas Housers, alongside several community organizations, has continued to pressure the Texas General Land Office to ensure that CDBG Mitigation…
The distribution of Texas’ disaster recovery funds exemplifies inequity. Here’s how we told the State to fix it.
There is a painful misconception in disaster recovery that is sometimes used as an excuse to maintain the status quo:…
Disaster survivors often faced double the financial toll when rebuilding their homes. A new law now ensures that won’t happen.
Following a natural disaster, a survivor’s road back to normal can be long and difficult. If they are lucky enough…
Community Development Block Grants 101
(Photo from Austin’s Blackland Community Development Corporation Facebook page) The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is one of the…
Texas Housers submits comments to City of Houston on proposed Hurricane Harvey action plan
Texas Housers submitted comments to the City of Houston last week about the city’s proposed plan for spending $1.15 billion…
How the state should evaluate the needs of survivors after a disaster
The state’s draft action plan for spending $57.8 million in federal disaster recovery funds was released on Jan. 18. The Texas General…
A big first step, yet questions remain as HUD announces $5 billion in federal disaster funds for Texas
(Editor’s note — This statement has been altered to incorporate the voice of our partner, Texas Appleseed) Meanwhile the White…
SAD FAKE NEWS: OMB Director vows “Nobody’s going to be kicked out of their houses”
A reporter asked President Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney a question at a press conference at the…
GOP spending bill targets community development block grants – POLITICO.com
GOP spending bill targets community development grants – David Rogers – POLITICO.com.
Preview of new HUD GIS mapping tool shows promise and potential
You have to hand it to the CPD staff of HUD. They are doing some really interesting and useful things…
A “new sheriff” takes over Texas disaster recovery
(Photo: Texas General Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, from Texas Tribune) Readers will recall Governor Perry passed responsibility for the Hurricane…
Texas colonia self-help centers reauthorized by Texas Legislature
The Texas Legislature acted today to preserve a key program in the state’s efforts to address the substandard living conditions…
I woke last night to the sound of thunder
As other parts of the state literally burn and the Governor calls on Texans to implement a critical part of…
U. S. House FY11 Budget Bill Slashes and Burns Federal Housing Safety Net
This press release from the National Low Income Housing Coalition unfortunately shows the current budgetary carnage is not restricted to…
Texas Prioritizes Sewers and Financial Assistance to For-Profit Businesses over Low Income Housing in CDBG program
The primary objective of this chapter and of the community development program of each grantee under this chapter is the…
Questions, answers, concerns about the new $4 billion foreclosed homes program in Texas
One of the subprograms of greatest controversy within the major housing legislation passed by Congress on Saturday (HR 3221) is…
At least we are better off than Mississippi and Alabama
Watch my testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Financial Service Committee, or, better yet,…