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Tag: Housing policy

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

Policy Suggestions from the Park Girl Rip-off

State issues•by •Posted February 14, 2013

If you don’t live in the RioGrande Valley, or don’t follow manufactured housing (MH) scams, you might have missed the…

Tags: Housing policy, manufactured housing, title fraud

Coalition of conservative activists’ calls for consolidation of TDHCA and TSAHC

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 21, 2012

In a reprise of a plan decisively rejected by the Texas Legislature last session, a coalition of conservative public policy…

Tags: Housing policy, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation

Out of Reach: The Housing Wage in Context

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 15, 2012

On Wednesday TxLIHIS released Texas data from the annual national study of housing affordability “Out of Reach” prepared by the…

Tags: Affordable housing, Housing crisis, housing need, Housing policy, National Housing Trust Fund, National Low Income Housing Coalition, worst case housing need

HUD plays Grinch with its poorest tenants

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 17, 2012

A single mother with two children in Texas is potentially eligible to receive $260 per month from Temporary Assistance for…

Tags: Housing policy, HUD, public housing, Section 8 (housing), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

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

HUD’s Ron Sims discusses something Austin officials will not — homeownership and race

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 21, 2011

For a  years I worked with State Representative Eddie Rodriguez (Austin) to help him devise a way to let lower-income…

Tags: Austin, homeownership, Housing policy, HUD, Ron Sims

HUD Secretary Donovan’s letter to PHAs about accepting ex-offenders

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

I commented earlier on HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan‘s letter to public housing authorities asking them to reconsider their policies on…

Tags: Housing policy, public housing, Public housing authorities

HUD: Ex-inmates need help to stay off streets in Houston | Houston Chronicle

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2011

The Houston Chronicle ran a thoughtful story today about the difficult problem facing people coming out of jail trying to…

Tags: housing for ex-prisoner, Housing policy, Houston

Preview of new HUD GIS mapping tool shows promise and potential

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

You have to hand it to the CPD staff of HUD. They are doing some really interesting and useful things…

Tags: CDBG, ESRI, esri community analyst, housing planning, Housing policy, HUD, HUD CPD Maps

Austin case study: Postdisaster housing policy and low-income survivors

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 19, 2011

Several very smart people from the University of Texas and myself just had a paper published in the Journal of…

Tags: Austin, Housing policy, Hurricane Katrina

Where Texas border housing and community development issues stand after the legislative session

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 17, 2011

Earlier this week I spoke to the National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders about developments during the last session…

Tags: Colonias, Disaster recovery, Housing policy, Hurricane Dolly, Lower Rio Grande Valley

Listening to Congress debate housing is a sobering experience

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 16, 2011

Every now and then it is worth listening in on Congressional debate on housing legislation. Not that it is usually…

Tags: Congress, Housing policy, National Housing Trust Fund

US House Subcommittee Votes to Eliminate Housing Trust Fund — Rooflines

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 14, 2011

A House subcommittee voted to stamp out the National Housing Trust Fund this week, signaling a very difficult road ahead…

Tags: Housing policy, National Housing Trust Fund

TX Tribune story may lead to a misdiagnosis of colonia conditions and health problems

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 10, 2011

The second of a two-part Texas Tribune story on the colonias that ran today on the Tribune’s website and in…

Tags: Colonias, Housing policy, Poverty, Texas Tribune

What really impedes progress in Texas colonias?

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 8, 2011

A story in today’s Texas Tribune and the Texas edition of the New York Times presents a sad and confused picture…

Tags: Colonias, Housing policy, Rio Grande Valley, Texas Tribune

Great new research tool: ESRI’s Community Analyst mapping site

Activities•by John Henneberger•Posted July 4, 2011

I’m not given to promoting commercial products on this blog, but I’m going to make an exception for the new…

Tags: Housing policy, Housing resources

Sadly, how far we have strayed from this great moral course

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 11, 2011

We built this Nation to serve its people. We do not intend to live in the midst of abundance, isolated…

Tags: Housing policy

74% of those with “worst case housing need” have extremely low incomes according to HUD report

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 14, 2010

HUD has published it’s latest assessment of the households that have a “Worst Case Housing Need”. The key findings are:…

Tags: Housing costs, Housing policy

Government housing programs can and do help the poorest families in Texas

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2009

I blogged last week about the need for housing programs to recognize the housing needs of families well below 30…

Tags: Housing policy, Housing resources, Low income housing, Public housing authorities, Section 8

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

The case for a new category of housing need — below poverty income

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 15, 2009

I have made myself an annoyance to many in the for-profit housing development industry by my constant insistence that housing…

Tags: Housing policy, Housing resources, Low income housing

Final recap of all housing related bills we followed in the Texas Legislature

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 6, 2009

I previously blogged about the fate of bills considered by the past session of the Texas Legislature that pertained to…

Tags: Housing policy

Why was the leader of a failed Texas housing nonprofit a major political contributor to Texas officials?

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 2, 2009

Steve Sterquell, the one-time head of the now bankrupt Amarillo, Texas nonprofit affordable housing corporation American Housing Foundation, gave out…

Tags: housing compliance, Housing news, Housing policy

Texans worried about their economic condition, housing concerns high on list

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 25, 2009

A new public opinion poll found that 37 percent Texans say their family’s economic situation is worse than one year…

Tags: Housing news, Housing policy

Governor Perry vetos three affordable housing bills

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 19, 2009

Texas Governor Rick Perry has vetoed three affordable housing bills passed by the Texas Legislature. HB 3983 by Rep. Rodriguez…

Tags: Housing policy, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Addressing low-income families’ housing aspirations is essential to financial reform

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 19, 2009

You don’t have to work long in the field of affordable housing to find out how strong the desire is…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosure, Housing policy

The Nouveau Poor foreclosure crisis slights the poor

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 18, 2009

You can’t help these days being struck by the amount of government and media attention heaped on the plight of…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosure, Housing crisis, Housing policy

Roundup of housing related bill action affecting TDHCA by the Texas Legislature

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 14, 2009

I am finally getting around to compiling the list of all the bills that passed and those that did not…

Tags: Housing policy, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

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