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Tag: Dallas

Podcast Episode 32: Searching For A Landlord To Take My Voucher

A Little Louder•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 4, 2020

Housing vouchers should be the empowering ticket to housing peace of mind of low-income families and individuals. However, for far…

Tags: A Little Louder, Dallas, Source of Income discrimination

10th Street’s struggle for historic neighborhood preservation and inclusive growth

A Little Louder•by •Posted April 5, 2019

In episode 7 of our podcast, A Little Louder, Texas Housers interviews members of the 10th Street Residential Association who…

Tags: Dallas, Disparate impact, Fair housing, freedman's town

Dallas apartment association advocates for voucher discrimination against veterans

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted June 16, 2016

The Dallas City Council has tabled a proposal to protect veterans from being denied housing based on their source of…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing, source of income, Vouchers

What housing mobility in action looks like in Dallas-Fort Worth

National issues•by •Posted January 28, 2016

The Inclusive Communities Project is a remarkable, unique organization operating in the Dallas area – and the major reason why that…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing, ICP

A push to embrace fair housing reality in the Dallas area

State issues•by •Posted January 6, 2016

During a prominent time for fair housing in America, the Dallas area has been the epicenter, thanks in large part…

Tags: AFFH, Dallas, Fair housing, HUD, ICP, source of income

Affordable housing opponents use Section 8 as a slur in wealthy Dallas suburb

Local issues•by •Posted October 6, 2015

In recent months, some residents of the Dallas area have made it explicitly clear that “Section 8 housing” is often…

Tags: Affordable housing, Dallas, Fair housing, NIMBYism, Section 8

After legal cases, the Dallas area confronts fair housing challenges

Local issues•by •Posted August 18, 2015

In this busy summer for fair housing in America, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been the national epicenter. From the…

Tags: Dallas, Disparate impact, ICP, Low income housing, McKinney, racial segregation

Update: Texas House approves statewide source of income protection ban

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted May 22, 2015

Update 5/23: The House voted 93-44, with one representative voting ‘present’ vote and 12 absent, to pass SB 267 on third reading…

Tags: Austin, Dallas, HUD, source of income, Texas Legislature

A battle with homelessness and source of income discrimination in Dallas

State issues•by •Posted April 22, 2015

“Oh no, we don’t want any voucher people in here.” Denise Kavanaugh heard variations of that statement again and again…

Tags: Dallas, Discrimination, source of income

Dallas Morning News editorial: High court must not perpetuate segregation

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 21, 2015

In a strongly worded editorial the Dallas Morning News has called on the US Supreme Court to reject the State…

Tags: Dallas, Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

#KeepHousingFair rally kicks off crucial Supreme Court case

National issues•by •Posted January 21, 2015

For more on the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. case, see our previous posts.…

Tags: #keephousingfair, Dallas, Disparate impact, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, inclusive communities, supreme court, Texas

City of Dallas signs Fair Housing conciliation agreement with HUD

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 5, 2014

Today the City of Dallas signed a Fair Housing conciliation agreement with HUD. Click to access dallas-hud-executed-vca.pdf Major provisions include:…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing

Dallas Morning News Editorial gets it partly right: Dallas needs to fix its housing policies

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

The HUD letter of findings of civil rights violations continues to reverberate in Dallas. In a strongly worded editorial today…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Dallas Observer asking the right questions about HUD’s Dallas fair housing findings

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

In his Dallas Observer blog Jim Schutze asks some intriguing questions about the facts that are not yet fully known about the…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing

“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

Bo’s Clips: Dallas Council Member Blames Plano for Dallas Homeless

News Clips•by •Posted April 2, 2013

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac begin to make write-downs on troubled mortgages as they post a 2012 profit of $17.2…

Tags: Dallas, Dwaine Caraway, Homeless, Housing news

Court rules Texas Housing Tax Credit program violates Fair Housing Act

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 20, 2012

This morning a federal court ruled in a case filed by a Dallas fair housing organization that the way the State…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing, Inclusive Communities Project, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

The ‘Whitest town in North Texas’ fights to keep it that way

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 27, 2012

This might just be the ideal place to film a remake of “Birth Of A Nation,” D.W. Griffith’s silent film…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing, Housing Discrimination, NIMBY

Dallas fumbles in the absence of a housing policy

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 18, 2012

Housing segregation is a problem most Texas communities struggle with. Crippled by a lack of political courage and leadership no…

Tags: Dallas, Housing policy, Housing segregation, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits

DMN editorial says paper will push housing in 2012

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 8, 2012

An editorial in today’s Dallas Morning News says the paper will editorially push two housing issues on the editorial pages…

Tags: Dallas, Housing policy

Dallas pregnant woman reportedly trampled, others injured in rush for housing vouchers

Local issues, News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted July 21, 2011

Bo McCarver’s housing news clips posted on this blog this week has a story from the AP headlined, “Early morning…

Tags: Dallas, Public housing authorities, Section 8

Its not just what Fannie Mae did, its also about what it didn’t do

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

Let me first admit that I have not yet read the book but I plan to over the next several…

Tags: Affordable housing, Dallas, FannieMae, Fort Worth, Government-sponsored enterprise, Gretchen Morgenson, Mortgage loan, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Dallas Tax Credit Corruption Case Continues

State issues•by •Posted February 20, 2010

The Dallas Morning News reports State Rep. Terri Hodge plead guilty to not paying taxes on payments which were allegedly…

Tags: Dallas, LIHTC, QAP

Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem and others guilty in housing tax credit case

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 5, 2009

The Dallas Morning News reports the federal district court jury found all of the defendants in the Dallas Low Income…

Tags: Dallas, Low Income Housing Tax Credits

Dallas Housing Authority misfires in war on crime

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 18, 2009

The Dallas Housing Authority’s board of directors (DHA) adopted a new policy this week to require public housing tenants to…

Tags: Dallas, Public housing authorities

Who is to blame in the Dallas tax credit corruption scandal?

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 13, 2009

In response to a recent blog post I received the following comment from an anonymous reader… Offering a bribe to…

Tags: Dallas, Low Income Housing Tax Credits

$55,000 was the price for community support for affordable housing in Dallas

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 29, 2009

A document introduced into evidence today in the Dallas public corruption trial surrounding the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit…

Tags: Dallas, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Tax credit apartments for extremely low income families focus in Dallas public corruption trial

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 26, 2009

A request to get the Dallas City Council to waive requirements that a portion of the apartments built by Low…

Tags: Dallas, Dallas Housing Authority, Low Income Housing Tax Credits

FBI recordings show tax credit developer and indicted local officials discussed redirecting housing bonds away from the poor

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 17, 2009

If you want to be discouraged about the way affordable housing has done in Texas all you need to do…

Tags: Dallas, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits

A culture of greed tarnishes the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit program

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 16, 2009

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Texas is sometimes more about the developers making money building housing and…

Tags: Dallas, Housing policy, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

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