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Tag: CDBG

HUD finds that Texas GLO discriminated against communities of color in $4 billion CDBG-MIT program

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 8, 2022

In a historic victory for communities of color in Houston and the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban…

Tags: CDBG, CDBG MIT, Disaster recovery, HUD, Texas GLO

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

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 14, 2022

There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigation…

Tags: CDBG, HUD, Texas GLO

The distribution of Texas’ disaster recovery funds exemplifies inequity. Here’s how we told the State to fix it.

State issues•by •Posted January 16, 2020
Texas GLO Office

There is a painful misconception in disaster recovery that is sometimes used as an excuse to maintain the status quo:…

Tags: CDBG, Texas GLO

Disaster survivors often faced double the financial toll when rebuilding their homes. A new law now ensures that won’t happen.

Harvey Recovery, Local issues, State issues•by Michael Depland•Posted May 14, 2019

Following a natural disaster, a survivor’s road back to normal can be long and difficult. If they are lucky enough…

Tags: CDBG, Disaster recovery, Texas Legislature

Community Development Block Grants 101

A Little Louder•by •Posted April 19, 2019

(Photo from Austin’s Blackland Community Development Corporation Facebook page) The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is one of the…

Tags: CDBG, CDC, community development block grants, Community development corporations

SAD FAKE NEWS: OMB Director vows “Nobody’s going to be kicked out of their houses”

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 18, 2017

A reporter asked President Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney a question at a press conference at the…

Tags: CDBG, housing choice vouchers, HUD, HUD budget, public housing

GOP spending bill targets community development block grants – POLITICO.com

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 19, 2013

GOP spending bill targets community development grants – David Rogers – POLITICO.com.

Tags: CDBG

Preview of new HUD GIS mapping tool shows promise and potential

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2011

You have to hand it to the CPD staff of HUD. They are doing some really interesting and useful things…

Tags: CDBG, ESRI, esri community analyst, housing planning, Housing policy, HUD, HUD CPD Maps

A “new sheriff” takes over Texas disaster recovery

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 6, 2011

(Photo: Texas General Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, from Texas Tribune) Readers will recall Governor Perry passed responsibility for the Hurricane…

Tags: CDBG, Disaster recovery, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane Ike, Natural Disaster, Texas General Land Office

Texas colonia self-help centers reauthorized by Texas Legislature

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 27, 2011

The Texas Legislature acted today to preserve a key program in the state’s efforts to address the substandard living conditions…

Tags: CDBG, Disaster recovery, General Land Office, Texas Department of Agriculture

I woke last night to the sound of thunder

Local issues•by •Posted June 23, 2011

As other parts of the state literally burn and the Governor calls on Texans to implement a critical part of…

Tags: CDBG, Colonias, Disaster recovery, Edinburg, Hurricane Dolly, Rio Grande Valley

U. S. House FY11 Budget Bill Slashes and Burns Federal Housing Safety Net

National issues•by •Posted February 14, 2011

This press release from the National Low Income Housing Coalition unfortunately shows the current budgetary carnage is not restricted to…

Tags: CDBG, federal budget, HUD, NLIHC

Texas Prioritizes Sewers and Financial Assistance to For-Profit Businesses over Low Income Housing in CDBG program

State issues•by •Posted July 12, 2010

The primary objective of this chapter and of the community development program of each grantee under this chapter is the…

Tags: CDBG, Housing, HUD, TDRA

Questions, answers, concerns about the new $4 billion foreclosed homes program in Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 28, 2008

One of the subprograms of greatest controversy within the major housing legislation passed by Congress on Saturday (HR 3221) is…

Tags: CDBG, Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosure, Home foreclosures, Housing policy, Housing resources

At least we are better off than Mississippi and Alabama

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 11, 2008

Watch my testimony before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Financial Service Committee, or, better yet,…

Tags: CDBG, Disaster recovery, Financial Services Committee, Hurricane Rita, TDHCA
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