These are heady times for fair housing advocates. In the wake of a historic month for fair housing which included a stunning…
Tag: Discrimination
Mosquita y Mari: Highlighting the intersectionality of housing and queer identity
As part of Pride week in the Rio Grande Valley, Aqui Estamos, a fantastic new group focused on LGBTQ issues…
Thinking about the next step toward equality: Protect LGBT people from housing discrimination
Yesterday’s historic Supreme Court ruling established nationwide marriage equality. As we celebrate this historic ruling, we need to prepare to…
The Atlantic investigates segregated housing in Beaumont
Atlantic writer Alana Semuels visited Texas earlier this month to report on fair housing issues. Semuels has extensively covered housing for the magazine,…
Video: Austin veteran’s experience with homelessness shows the need for strong housing voucher protections
A year ago, Samantha didn’t know about housing vouchers for veterans. She’d never needed to. “I just had never needed…
Legacy of housing segregation felt in McKinney pool incident
On Saturday, the latest in our country’s recent series of ugly police confrontations with African-Americans occurred in a seemingly unlikely place: A community…
Texas source of income protection ban headed to governor’s desk
On Thursday afternoon, the Texas Senate voted 19-12 to concur with the House of Representatives’ version of SB 267, the…
My remarks at the University of Texas School of Architecture commencement: “Hit a lick against what’s wrong or say a word for what’s right”
Yesterday I had the honor to deliver the keynote speech at the 102nd commencement ceremony for the School of Architecture at the…
Place matters: New research on income mobility for low income families
A landmark new study by The Equality of Opportunity Project, a research collaboration between Harvard University and the University of…
Does source of income protection work?
Both chambers of the Texas Legislature are currently considering bills that would ban local governments from enacting source of income protection…
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…
Heather Way: Affordable housing must be a priority for economically segregated Texas
This column by Heather Way is reprinted with her permission. Way is a clinical professor of law and directs the Entrepreneurship and Community…
Homeownership and the racial wealth gap, in Houston and beyond
Yesterday our co-director, John Henneberger, appeared on Houston Public Media to discuss how rates of homeownership affect the racial wealth…
To this day some are lined up on the wrong side of the bridge, blocking the march to integration
Fifty years ago today, hundreds of brave men and women marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to…
Texas cities lead nation in economic segregation
On the heels of a recent study that ranked Austin as the eighth most gentrifying city in the nation, a…
Austin Tenants’ Council study illuminates source of income discrimination
Austin’s new ordinance protecting renters from discrimination based on their source of income faces dual challenges, a lawsuit from the Austin…
Austin’s new fair housing fight is a flashback to the Civil Rights era
In a column today in the Austin American-Statesman, our co-director John Henneberger highlights how little the opposition to fair housing in…
Those who seek to limit Fair Housing law should be asked about Beaumont, Texas
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States takes up a case about housing discrimination in Dallas that has brought national…
Austin’s poisonous legacy of housing segregation exposed
In an exceptional three-part print and video journalism series titled “Inheriting Inequality,” Austin American-Statement economics reporter Dan Zehr explores how as Austin…
Spend a hour this MLK Day listening to Dr King deliver a 1966 speech in Dallas
“I never intend to adjust myself to segregation or discrimination.” – MLK, speaking at SMU in Dallas, March 17, 1966.…
The Blogosphere Discusses Segregation in Austin
Over the last two months, there’s been an uptick in folks visiting the Texas Housers website after searching on terms…
Notice at apartment complex targets young blacks – Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle is reporting on a notice found posted at a southwest Houston apartment complex warning residents to report…
Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months
Reporter Karisa King’s full Texas housing story is out in the San Antonio Express News. It is a devastating expose…
Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas – NYTimes.com
Karisa King of the San Antonio Epress News has an incredibly researched and very disturbing story in Sunday’s New York…
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…
More Texas kids live in concentrated poverty than in any other state
What does it mean to a child to grow up in a neighborhood where poverty is concentrated? That is a…
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…
When the overwhelming majority of good people don’t confront prejudice, an entire community suffers
I received a phone call yesterday from Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski about my June 25 blog post, “The racism of New Berlin…
Conference committee strikes anti-NIMBY provisions from TDHCA legislation, continues agency 2 years
The Texas House/Senate Conference Committee on SB 1 has reached agreement to extend the life of the Texas Department of…