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Tag: Housing segregation

Our country and communities created neighborhood segregation. Houston, one of the most diverse cities in America, is no exception.

Activities, Local issues•by •Posted February 19, 2019

(Pictured, Texas Housers Southeast Texas co-director Zoe Middleton and Texas Housers community planner Libby Bland pose with author and scholar…

Tags: Housing segregation, Houston, Research, The Color of Law

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

49 years after Dr. King’s death, Austin leaders offer a sweeping blueprint to racially integrate neighborhoods

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 4, 2017

  Forty-nine years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today Austin is proclaiming, in a manner that…

Tags: Austin, Fair housing, Housing segregation, Integration, Mayor's Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequalities, racial segregation, Residential Segregation

Many present-day “Show Me a Hero” dynamics can be found in Texas

State issues•by •Posted September 8, 2015

The HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero is over. The show concluded last week, wrapping up its immersive, deeply felt…

Tags: Discrimination, Housing segregation, Housing Tax Credits, Show Me A Hero, source of income

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

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”

State issues, University of Texas at Austin commencement•by John Henneberger•Posted May 24, 2015

Yesterday I had the honor to deliver the keynote speech at the 102nd commencement ceremony for the School of Architecture at the…

Tags: Architecture, Disaster recovery, Fair housing, Housing segregation

Homeownership and the racial wealth gap, in Houston and beyond

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted April 7, 2015

Yesterday our co-director, John Henneberger, appeared on Houston Public Media to discuss how rates of homeownership affect the racial wealth…

Tags: Fair housing, homeownership, Housing segregation, Houston

To this day some are lined up on the wrong side of the bridge, blocking the march to integration

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 7, 2015

Fifty years ago today, hundreds of brave men and women marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to…

Tags: Housing segregation, Selma

Poor and rich are increasingly isolated in Houston – map by Houston Chronicle

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 29, 2013
Tags: Housing segregation, Houston, Houston Chronicle

The Blogosphere Discusses Segregation in Austin

Local issues•by •Posted March 14, 2013

Over the last two months, there’s been an uptick in folks visiting the Texas Housers website after searching on terms…

Tags: Austin, Housing segregation

Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 22, 2012

Reporter Karisa King’s full Texas housing story is out in the San Antonio Express News. It is a devastating expose…

Tags: Fair housing, Housing segregation, LIHTC, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas – NYTimes.com

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

Karisa King of the San Antonio Epress News has an incredibly researched and  very disturbing story in Sunday’s New York…

Tags: Housing segregation, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits

More Texas kids live in concentrated poverty than in any other state

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 23, 2012

What does it mean to a child to grow up in a neighborhood where poverty is concentrated? That is a…

Tags: Housing segregation, Poverty, Poverty in the United States

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

The racism of New Berlin is growing in Galveston

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 25, 2011

We noted yesterday the United States Department of Justice brought suit alleging the City of New Berlin, Wisconsin had violated the…

Tags: Fair housing, Galveston, Housing segregation, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, prejudice, racisim

DOJ to Intevene in Texas Developmental Disability Segregation Case

State issues•by •Posted June 23, 2011

According to a press release by the US Department of Justice, the Justice Department today filed papers seeking to intervene…

Tags: community-based services, DOJ, Housing segregation

Black-White Segregation in Small and Mid-sized Texas Cities

State issues•by •Posted January 24, 2011

I realized that my last two posts on black/white segregation in Texas focused on data from the large urban centers…

Tags: American Community Survey, Housing segregation, Remapping Debate

ACS Segregation Data II

National issues, State issues•by •Posted January 18, 2011

  In a natural followup to yesterday’s post, Remapping Debate this morning released a look at the segregation patterns revealed…

Tags: American Community Survey, Housing segregation, Remapping Debate

The state of Black-White Segregation in Texas

State issues•by •Posted January 17, 2011

Last month the Brookings Institution released a set of segregation measures about the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United…

Tags: American Community Survey, Austin, Census, Housing segregation, Houston

Study: Leading Subsidized Housing Program in Texas Limits Economic Opportunity of the Poor

State issues•by •Posted December 13, 2010

New report finds that Low Income Housing Tax Credit housing is more likely than other rental housing to be built…

Tags: housing opportunity, Housing segregation, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, NIMBY, QAP, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears (another) hurdle

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted September 30, 2010

The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the Inclusive Communities Project has legal standing…

Tags: Housing segregation, ICP, Inclusionary housing, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Are Some Inclusionary Zoning Ordinances Promoting Racial Segregation?

National issues•by •Posted October 27, 2009

Inclusionary zoning is a policy whereby a city or municipality mandates that a certain percentage of units in newly constructed…

Tags: Housing segregation, Inclusionary zoning

Black children pay a high price for living in poverty neighborhoods

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 27, 2009

In the United States, living in a poor neighborhood often means living in an environment that is unhealthy and violent, and…

Tags: Fair housing, Housing segregation

The struggle begins to successfully design a TX Neighborhood Stabilization Program

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 5, 2009

I have previously expressed concerns about how the new Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) can be successfully implemented. I attended a…

Tags: Home foreclosures, Housing segregation, Neighborhood Stabilization Program, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears hurdle

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 13, 2008

The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has denied a motion by the Texas Department of Housing…

Tags: Dallas, Housing segregation, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

North Texas emerges as ground zero in newly energized fight against racial housing segregation

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 22, 2008

North Texas is becoming ground zero in the fight against residential racial segregation.  This thanks to the experienced and increasingly…

Tags: Dallas, Housing segregation, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Section 8

The Federal Reserve presents a tale of two Texas poverty neighborhoods

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

The Community Affairs Offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Brookings Institution have issued a report, “The Enduring Challenge…

Tags: Austin, El Paso, Housing segregation, Texas housing studies

New report says Dallas, Houston show increases in concentrated working poverty rates

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 16, 2008

According to a Brookings Institution study released this week, trends suggest that the decline in concentrated poverty that occurred during…

Tags: Housing segregation

Dallas Morning News op-ed makes economic argument against housing segregation

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 14, 2008

An extensive opinion piece headlined, Poor assumptions: segregating poverty in Dallas is a money-losing proposition authored by Dallas Morning News…

Tags: Housing segregation

Part 2: 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, still waiting for integrated communities

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 12, 2008

In the previous post I explored the debate and political process that went into the passage of the Fair Housing…

Tags: Housing segregation

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