(Pictured, Texas Housers Southeast Texas co-director Zoe Middleton and Texas Housers community planner Libby Bland pose with author and scholarContinue Reading
I’m often asked to summarize what I have learned in my 40+ years of activism in the field of housingContinue Reading
Forty-nine years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today Austin is proclaiming, in a manner thatContinue Reading
The HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero is over. The show concluded last week, wrapping up its immersive, deeply feltContinue Reading
On Saturday, the latest in our country’s recent series of ugly police confrontations with African-Americans occurred in a seemingly unlikely place: A communityContinue Reading
Yesterday I had the honor to deliver the keynote speech at the 102nd commencement ceremony for the School of Architecture at theContinue Reading
Yesterday our co-director, John Henneberger, appeared on Houston Public Media to discuss how rates of homeownership affect the racial wealthContinue Reading
Fifty years ago today, hundreds of brave men and women marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, toContinue Reading
Over the last two months, there’s been an uptick in folks visiting the Texas Housers website after searching on termsContinue Reading
Reporter Karisa King’s full Texas housing story is out in the San Antonio Express News. It is a devastating exposeContinue Reading
Karisa King of the San Antonio Epress News has an incredibly researched and very disturbing story in Sunday’s New YorkContinue Reading
What does it mean to a child to grow up in a neighborhood where poverty is concentrated? That is aContinue Reading
Housing segregation is a problem most Texas communities struggle with. Crippled by a lack of political courage and leadership noContinue Reading
We noted yesterday the United States Department of Justice brought suit alleging the City of New Berlin, Wisconsin had violated theContinue Reading
According to a press release by the US Department of Justice, the Justice Department today filed papers seeking to interveneContinue Reading
I realized that my last two posts on black/white segregation in Texas focused on data from the large urban centersContinue Reading
In a natural followup to yesterday’s post, Remapping Debate this morning released a look at the segregation patterns revealedContinue Reading
Last month the Brookings Institution released a set of segregation measures about the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the UnitedContinue Reading
New report finds that Low Income Housing Tax Credit housing is more likely than other rental housing to be builtContinue Reading
The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the Inclusive Communities Project has legal standingContinue Reading
Inclusionary zoning is a policy whereby a city or municipality mandates that a certain percentage of units in newly constructedContinue Reading
In the United States, living in a poor neighborhood often means living in an environment that is unhealthy and violent, andContinue Reading
I have previously expressed concerns about how the new Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) can be successfully implemented. I attended aContinue Reading
The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has denied a motion by the Texas Department of HousingContinue Reading
North Texas is becoming ground zero in the fight against residential racial segregation. This thanks to the experienced and increasinglyContinue Reading
The Community Affairs Offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Brookings Institution have issued a report, “The Enduring ChallengeContinue Reading
According to a Brookings Institution study released this week, trends suggest that the decline in concentrated poverty that occurred duringContinue Reading
An extensive opinion piece headlined, Poor assumptions: segregating poverty in Dallas is a money-losing proposition authored by Dallas Morning NewsContinue Reading
In the previous post I explored the debate and political process that went into the passage of the Fair HousingContinue Reading