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Tag: Housing Discrimination

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

Suit filed to overturn Texas prohibition on source of income protection for voucher holders

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 17, 2017

In Texas, there is a law formally protecting landlord discrimination against people with housing vouchers, most of whom are African-American. A lawsuit filed Thursday in…

Tags: Fair housing, Housing Discrimination, Inclusive Communities Project, Section 8, Texas Apartment Association, Texas Legislature

US Department of Justice and HUD file brief in support of Austin’s Fair Housing Ordinance

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2015

HUD and the US Department of Justice have filed a brief against the appeal filed by the Austin Apartment Association…

Tags: Austin, Austin Apartment Association, City of Austin, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Housing Discrimination

David Simon’s new HBO mini series is on housing integration… seriously

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 14, 2015

These are heady times for fair housing advocates. In the wake of a historic month for fair housing which included a stunning…

Tags: Fair housing, Housing Discrimination, Show Me A Hero

Mosquita y Mari: Highlighting the intersectionality of housing and queer identity

Uncategorized•by •Posted July 9, 2015

As part of Pride week in the Rio Grande Valley, Aqui Estamos, a fantastic new group focused on LGBTQ issues…

Tags: Fair housing, Housing Discrimination, Josue, LGBTQ, Rio Grande Valley, Staff post

Thinking about the next step toward equality: Protect LGBT people from housing discrimination

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 27, 2015

Yesterday’s historic Supreme Court ruling established nationwide marriage equality. As we celebrate this historic ruling, we need to prepare to…

Tags: Austin Apartment Association, Housing Discrimination, housing discrimination against LGBT

Legacy of housing segregation felt in McKinney pool incident

National issues•by •Posted June 9, 2015

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…

Tags: Disparate impact, Housing Discrimination, Housing segregation, McKinney, racial segregation

Those who seek to limit Fair Housing law should be asked about Beaumont, Texas

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 20, 2015

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States takes up a case about housing discrimination in Dallas that has brought national…

Tags: Beaumont, Beaumont Housing Authority, east texas, Fair housing, Housing Discrimination, inclusive communities, segregation, supreme court, vidor

Austin’s poisonous legacy of housing segregation exposed

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 18, 2015

In an exceptional three-part print and video journalism series titled “Inheriting Inequality,” Austin American-Statement economics reporter Dan Zehr explores how as Austin…

Tags: Austin, Fair housing, Housing Discrimination

Notice at apartment complex targets young blacks – Houston Chronicle

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 21, 2012

The Houston Chronicle is reporting on a notice found posted at a southwest Houston apartment complex warning residents to report…

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

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

Conference committee strikes anti-NIMBY provisions from TDHCA legislation, continues agency 2 years

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 27, 2011

The Texas House/Senate Conference Committee on SB 1 has reached agreement to extend the life of the Texas Department of…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Housing Discrimination, Sunset Advisory Commission, TDHCA, TDHCA Sunset, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

You have to know someone to live here – disguised discrimination

National issues•by •Posted February 22, 2010

This  NYT article exposes an interesting method of discrimination which allegedly occurred in the Edgewater Park or Silver Beach Garden…

Tags: Housing Discrimination

The Evolution of Housing Discrimination

National issues•by •Posted November 9, 2009

It is important to remember that discrimination still exists as a sizeable barrier between low-income families and safe, affordable housing. …

Tags: Housing Discrimination
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