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Tag: Housing resources

Aunt Bertha points people to help

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 20, 2012

A colleague just pointed out an interesting new website designed to refer people needing help in a range of areas,…

Tags: housing need, Housing resources

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

NLIHC: Out of Reach 2011 report updated

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

NLIHC’s annual report, Out of Reach 2011, a side-by-side comparison of wages and rents in every county, metropolitan area, combined…

Tags: Housing resources

Low-income Americans will need to work into their eighties

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

Only by retiring at 75 years old would a majority of Americans in the lowest income quartile — defined as…

Tags: Housing budget, Housing resources

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

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

Let’s resolve to win a serious housing trust fund for Texas

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 5, 2009

TxLIHIS is ringing in the New Year with a long list of resolutions – from ensuring that low-income hurricane survivors…

Tags: Housing resources, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Texas Housing Trust Fund

Please read this woman’s story and tell me how to address her housing problem

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 10, 2008

One of the things that frustrates me the most is that I get a dozen or so emails each week…

Tags: Housing resources

Focusing on the big picture of housing assistance

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 4, 2008

Let’s take a step back and focus on the big picture of housing assistance using this chart I have prepared…

Tags: Housing resources, HUD, Low income housing, Substandard housing

Lt. Governor Dewhurst pledges to “double or triple” Texas Housing Trust Fund

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 29, 2008

Speaking before the annual Texas Housing Conference Monday, Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst pledged that the Texas Legislature would double…

Tags: Housing resources, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Texas Housing Trust Fund

Questions, answers, concerns about the new $4 billion foreclosed homes program in Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 28, 2008

One of the subprograms of greatest controversy within the major housing legislation passed by Congress on Saturday (HR 3221) is…

Tags: CDBG, Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosure, Home foreclosures, Housing policy, Housing resources

Austin housers win funding victory

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 26, 2008

Austin housers won a major victory Thursday when the Austin City Council reversed city staff recommendations and rejected deep cuts…

Tags: Austin, Housing advocates, Housing budget, Housing resources

Understanding public attitudes toward public housing

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 25, 2008

Amidst a lot of anger and outrage directed at a proposed development in Northeast Austin proposing to provide transitional housing…

Tags: Austin, Housing resources, Public housing authorities

Just how crazy can the WSJ editorial page be? Check out the attack on the housing trust fund.

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 15, 2008

On July 8 the Wall Street Journal editorial page let loose on the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund in an…

Tags: Housing policy, Housing resources, National Housing Trust Fund, National issues

Austin housers voice concerns over proposed city housing cuts

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 8, 2008

Leaders in Austin’s affordable housing community met July 1 the City of Austin’s new Chief of Staff, Anthony Snipes to…

Tags: Austin, Housing budget, Housing resources
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