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Tag: Fair housing

Texas Housers calls on State of Texas to dismantle racial residential exclusion through the housing tax credit program

State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 30, 2022

Texas Housers believes the locational decisions the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) adopts for selecting sites for…

Tags: Fair housing, High Opportunity Areas, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, residential racial segregation, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Texas Housers asks CFPB to strike unjust rule shielding banks from public scrutiny

National issues•by •Posted December 18, 2020

In July of 2020, Texas Housers posted on our blog about the lawsuit we filed alongside cities and fair housing…

Tags: CFPB, Fair housing

Podcast Episode 31: Housing Segregation, George Floyd, and Honoring True Housers

A Little Louder, National issues, State issues•by •Posted November 6, 2020

For Texas Housers’ latest podcast episode, John and I are experimenting with a new format. We’re discussing what we’re reading,…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, Texas Houser Awards

LGBTQ Texans now have workplace protections thanks to SCOTUS. They deserve Fair Housing protections too.

National issues, State issues•by Michael Depland•Posted June 18, 2020

This week, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a landmark case that an individual could not be…

Tags: Fair housing, LGBTQ, supreme court

Texas Housers comments on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments outline the necessary action behind the city’s talk

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted April 20, 2020

On April 16, Texas Housers submitted comments alongside Texas Appleseed on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. Every…

Tags: AI, Fair housing, Houston

Podcast episode 25: A Voice for San Antonio Renters

A Little Louder, Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted February 21, 2020

Nearly half of the city of San Antonio’s residents are renters, and the cost of renting an apartment in the…

Tags: Fair housing, Renters, San Antonio, Tenant 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

Texas Housers opposes HUD’s further retreat from promoting and enforcing fair housing

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 9, 2020

This week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Secretary Ben Carson abdicated its role as the country’s…

Tags: AFFH, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD

Episode 19: Disaster recovery is leaving out renters

A Little Louder, Harvey Recovery•by •Posted November 8, 2019

When a disaster hits, flooding and fires might not discriminate, but the systems and funding intended to rebuild our communities…

Tags: Aransas Pass, Disaster recovery, Fair housing, FEMA, Housing, Hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, lawsuit, Podcast

Lawsuit by four Texas renters says State of Texas, HUD discriminate on race in Hurricane Harvey aid

Harvey Recovery•by John Henneberger•Posted October 14, 2019

Four South Texas renters filed a civil rights lawsuit last week in federal court alleging HUD and the State of…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Fair housing, GLO, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, State Action Plan, Substandard apartments, Texas, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Episode 18: The Power of Renters

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by •Posted October 11, 2019

More than one-third of households in Texas are renters, and in Austin, more than half of residents rent their homes.…

Tags: Austin, BASTA, Fair housing, Renters, Tenant rights

Podcast Episode 16: The House of Cards America Built

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted September 13, 2019

When the U.S. government designed postwar housing policy and subsidized massive developments and suburbs, it created a strong middle class…

Tags: Fair housing, homeownership, Redlining, segregation

The city of Houston says it wants to end impediments to Fair Housing using the Four Rights. It should lead by example.

Local issues•by Michael Depland•Posted August 13, 2019

Fair housing was signed into law to root out segregation and individual acts of discrimination. But it means so much…

Tags: Fair housing, four rights, Houston

Podcast Episode 13: Where do the 2020 presidential candidates stand on housing?

A Little Louder•by •Posted June 28, 2019

On the season 1 finale of our podcast, A Little Louder, Texas Housers co-director John Henneberger and I review what…

Tags: Affordable housing, Election, Fair housing, Renters

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

East Lubbock residents will become citizen scientists in their fight for equal air

A Little Louder•by •Posted March 1, 2019

In episode five of our podcast, A Little Louder, we discuss a proposed military base tenant bill of rights and…

Tags: Environmental justice, Environmental racism, Fair housing, Lubbock

Housing policy that supports everyone’s chance to thrive can change a family’s life trajectory

A Little Louder•by •Posted February 15, 2019

In episode 4 of A Little Louder, we talk about how housing mobility and the policies that support true housing…

Tags: Fair housing, housing choice vouchers, housing mobility

How to avoid disaster recovery Groundhog Day

A Little Louder, Harvey Recovery•by •Posted February 1, 2019

There is no question that natural disasters will hit Texas again. We hope Mother Nature will keep the peace, but…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Fair housing, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, Podcast

Integration Now: How inclusive communities promote options and opportunity

A Little Louder•by •Posted January 14, 2019

In episode 2, Demetria McCain of the Inclusive Communities Project talks about integration and people's right to choose where to…

Tags: Colonias, Fair housing, Integration, Podcast

The 8 things I’ve learned in my 40+ years in housing and community development

Activities, Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted September 7, 2018

I’m often asked to summarize what I have learned in my 40+ years of activism in the field of housing…

Tags: Affordable housing, Fair housing, Housing policy, Housing segregation, John Henneberger

Tenants at Houston’s flooded, distressed Arbor Court Apartments sue HUD for intentional racial discrimination

Local issues•by •Posted July 19, 2018

(Photo above is of red tag, labeling Arbor Courts as a fire hazard) HUD Secretary Ben Carson declared that conditions…

Tags: Arbor Court, Fair housing, Flooding, Houston, Section 8, Substandard apartments

Secretary Carson asks anybody to offer examples of housing discrimination HUD has ignored and pledges to be on it “like white on rice.” Here you go Mr. Secretary

National issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 18, 2018

HUD Secretary Ben Carson assured members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee three weeks ago that he and HUD…

Tags: ben carson, Fair housing, HUD

Texas Housers and advocacy partners receive support in lawsuit against HUD over failure to enforce fair housing law

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted June 8, 2018

Numerous cities and states, including the City of Austin, as well as housing and anti-poverty advocates, filed amicus briefs this…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, ben carson, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD, lawsuit, national fair housing alliance

Civil rights groups amend lawsuit to challenge HUD’s latest attempt to erode fair housing progress

National issues•by •Posted May 30, 2018

The National Fair Housing Alliance, Texas Housers and Texas Appleseed filed an amended complaint and a new preliminary injunction motion…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD, lawsuit

Who has the right to live here? Austin’s fifty year fight over fair housing

Local issues, National issues•by Karen Paup•Posted April 5, 2018

The right to fair housing stands out among civil rights laws as the one that has historically received the most…

Tags: Austin, Fair housing, History

HUD is strangling fair housing progress. Advocates must march on toward just and inclusive communities.

National issues•by •Posted April 4, 2018

Michael Allen on fair housing after 50 years from Texas Housers on Vimeo. The arc of the moral universe is…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD

Sweeping new fair and affordable housing proposed by three Austin City Council members

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 4, 2018

Austin City Council members Garza, Renteria, and Casar have announced a sweeping progressive fair and affordable housing agenda. Here is…

Tags: Affordable housing, Austin, Fair housing

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

HUD must not abandon its duty to fight housing discrimination

National issues•by •Posted March 9, 2018

(Photo above: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act in 1965) In the face…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Housing Discrimination, HUD

A friendly city where the problems of race and equity go unacknowledged and unresolved

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 25, 2018

Lubbock proudly bills itself as “The Friendliest City in America.” The people of Lubbock are indeed friendly. Yet, like most…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing and Neighborhood Rights, Lubbock

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