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Tag: Civil rights

A Little Louder Episode 45: Texas GLO and Discrimination

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 19, 2022

This week, HUD released its final determination that Texas GLO discriminated against Black and Hispanic Texans in its distribution of…

Tags: A Little Louder, CDBG MIT, Civil rights, Disaster recovery, Texas GLO

Podcast Episode 24: Free Our People

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues•by •Posted February 7, 2020

In Texas, and across the country disability rights activists have demanded, worked for, and won improved transportation services, the right…

Tags: Accessibility, ADAPT of Texas, Civil rights, disability rights

Podcast Episode 23: The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted January 24, 2020

There is no question that the impetus for Congress passing and President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1968 Fair Housing…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Civil rights, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, Podcast

Part 2: In a segregated Houston unequal neighborhoods mean unequal flood protection

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted March 22, 2018

This is the second part of a two-part blog on Texas Housers turning to the courts to direct the U.S.…

Tags: Civil rights, Fair housing, Flooding, Houston, HUD, lawsuit, Title VI

We demand HUD address City of Houston and Housing Authority violations of civil rights laws

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 14, 2017

The Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS) has told the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that it…

Tags: City of Houston, Civil rights, Fair housing, Houston, HUD, Infrastructure, Title VI

Sweeping federal investigation finds City of Houston’s housing segregation violates Civil Rights Act

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 18, 2017

Racial housing segregation in Houston is no accident. It is not voluntary on the part of Houstonians of color. It is…

Tags: Civil rights, Fair Housing Act, Houston, HUD, segregation

Groundbreaking civil rights agreement is ‘bittersweet’ for residents of historic Corpus Christi community

Local issues•by •Posted December 30, 2015

If the residents of Corpus Christi’s Northside are not jumping with joy after winning a first-of-its-kind, multimillion dollar buyout agreement, it’s understandable.…

Tags: Civil rights, Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Harbor Bridge, Hillcrest

Justice in Corpus Christi: Residents of segregated neighborhood win historic civil rights agreement

Local issues•by •Posted December 28, 2015

A first-of-its-kind civil rights, fair housing and environmental justice agreement has been reached in Corpus Christi, Texas, in response to…

Tags: Civil rights, Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Harbor Bridge

Watch our short documentary on housing and environmental injustice in Corpus Christi

Local issues•by •Posted August 10, 2015

  Corpus Christi’s historic African-American neighborhoods of Hillcrest and Washington-Coles have endured decades of injustice: Redlining and housing segregation, industrial…

Tags: Civil rights, Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Hillcrest, Northside, Redlining, segregation, Texas Department of Transportation

Nelson Mandela 1918-2013 – “Our struggle for freedom was a collective effort… It is in your hands to create a better world

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 5, 2013

“We hold it as an inviolable principle that racism must be opposed by all the means that humanity has at…

Tags: Civil rights, Nelson Mandela

Texas housing tax credit fair housing case oral arguments before 5th Circuit Court include lively questions and answers

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 4, 2013

Yesterday’s oral arguments in the State of Texas’ appeal of the District Court’s ruling in the Inclusive Communities Project vs. Texas…

Tags: Civil rights, Fair housing, Inclusive Communities Project, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

“Its Westchester on steroids”: HUD finds Dallas in non-compliance with fair housing laws, seeks sweeping remedies

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 2, 2013

“Its Westchester on steroids,” is how one civil rights advocate characterized HUD’s findings against the City of Dallas, referring to…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Civil rights, Dallas, Fair housing, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
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