The need for affordable housing for low-income households is one of the most pressing issues Texans face today. And thanks…
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Podcast Episode 32: Searching For A Landlord To Take My Voucher
Housing vouchers should be the empowering ticket to housing peace of mind of low-income families and individuals. However, for far…
10th Street’s struggle for historic neighborhood preservation and inclusive growth
In episode 7 of our podcast, A Little Louder, Texas Housers interviews members of the 10th Street Residential Association who…
Dallas apartment association advocates for voucher discrimination against veterans
The Dallas City Council has tabled a proposal to protect veterans from being denied housing based on their source of…
What housing mobility in action looks like in Dallas-Fort Worth
The Inclusive Communities Project is a remarkable, unique organization operating in the Dallas area – and the major reason why that…
A push to embrace fair housing reality in the Dallas area
During a prominent time for fair housing in America, the Dallas area has been the epicenter, thanks in large part…
Affordable housing opponents use Section 8 as a slur in wealthy Dallas suburb
In recent months, some residents of the Dallas area have made it explicitly clear that “Section 8 housing” is often…
After legal cases, the Dallas area confronts fair housing challenges
In this busy summer for fair housing in America, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been the national epicenter. From the…
Update: Texas House approves statewide source of income protection ban
Update 5/23: The House voted 93-44, with one representative voting ‘present’ vote and 12 absent, to pass SB 267 on third reading…
A battle with homelessness and source of income discrimination in Dallas
“Oh no, we don’t want any voucher people in here.” Denise Kavanaugh heard variations of that statement again and again…
Dallas Morning News editorial: High court must not perpetuate segregation
In a strongly worded editorial the Dallas Morning News has called on the US Supreme Court to reject the State…
#KeepHousingFair rally kicks off crucial Supreme Court case
For more on the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. case, see our previous posts.…
City of Dallas signs Fair Housing conciliation agreement with HUD
Today the City of Dallas signed a Fair Housing conciliation agreement with HUD. Click to access dallas-hud-executed-vca.pdf Major provisions include:…
Dallas Morning News Editorial gets it partly right: Dallas needs to fix its housing policies
The HUD letter of findings of civil rights violations continues to reverberate in Dallas. In a strongly worded editorial today…
Dallas Observer asking the right questions about HUD’s Dallas fair housing findings
In his Dallas Observer blog Jim Schutze asks some intriguing questions about the facts that are not yet fully known about the…
“Its Westchester on steroids”: HUD finds Dallas in non-compliance with fair housing laws, seeks sweeping remedies
“Its Westchester on steroids,” is how one civil rights advocate characterized HUD’s findings against the City of Dallas, referring to…
Bo’s Clips: Dallas Council Member Blames Plano for Dallas Homeless
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac begin to make write-downs on troubled mortgages as they post a 2012 profit of $17.2…
Court rules Texas Housing Tax Credit program violates Fair Housing Act
This morning a federal court ruled in a case filed by a Dallas fair housing organization that the way the State…
The ‘Whitest town in North Texas’ fights to keep it that way
This might just be the ideal place to film a remake of “Birth Of A Nation,” D.W. Griffith’s silent film…
Dallas fumbles in the absence of a housing policy
Housing segregation is a problem most Texas communities struggle with. Crippled by a lack of political courage and leadership no…
DMN editorial says paper will push housing in 2012
An editorial in today’s Dallas Morning News says the paper will editorially push two housing issues on the editorial pages…
Dallas pregnant woman reportedly trampled, others injured in rush for housing vouchers
Bo McCarver’s housing news clips posted on this blog this week has a story from the AP headlined, “Early morning…
Its not just what Fannie Mae did, its also about what it didn’t do
Let me first admit that I have not yet read the book but I plan to over the next several…
Dallas Tax Credit Corruption Case Continues
The Dallas Morning News reports State Rep. Terri Hodge plead guilty to not paying taxes on payments which were allegedly…
Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem and others guilty in housing tax credit case
The Dallas Morning News reports the federal district court jury found all of the defendants in the Dallas Low Income…
Dallas Housing Authority misfires in war on crime
The Dallas Housing Authority’s board of directors (DHA) adopted a new policy this week to require public housing tenants to…
Who is to blame in the Dallas tax credit corruption scandal?
In response to a recent blog post I received the following comment from an anonymous reader… Offering a bribe to…
$55,000 was the price for community support for affordable housing in Dallas
A document introduced into evidence today in the Dallas public corruption trial surrounding the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit…
Tax credit apartments for extremely low income families focus in Dallas public corruption trial
A request to get the Dallas City Council to waive requirements that a portion of the apartments built by Low…
FBI recordings show tax credit developer and indicted local officials discussed redirecting housing bonds away from the poor
If you want to be discouraged about the way affordable housing has done in Texas all you need to do…