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Tag: Houston

Texas Housers is searching for our next community navigator in Houston

Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 31, 2022

Focus on projects, policy and messaging to support low-income tenants across Houston struggling for housing stability because of economic hardship…

Tags: Houston, Job announcement

Houston PATCHwork and these district profiles show the stark difference in affordable housing availability across the largest city in Texas

Local issues•by Julia Orduña•Posted March 10, 2022

Texas Housers is a proud member of the Houston Organizing Movement for Equity (HOME) Coalition, a diverse coalition of community-based…

Tags: HOME coalition, Houston, Renter Profiles, Tenant rights

Watch ‘Texas Housers 2021 Video Rewind’ as we spotlight the unique voices who fought for housing justice

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 20, 2022

We are starting off 2022 in a big way with a few videos highlighting what the last year looked like for Texas…

Tags: CourtWatch, evictions, featured, housing choice voucher, Houston, public housing, San Antonio, Texas Housers

A Little Louder Episode 41: Houston’s Dangerous Apartment Problem Part 1

Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 20, 2021

A Little Louder is launching a new miniseries within our show on substandard housing in Texas. Our latest episode kicks…

Tags: City of Houston, Houston, Sunnyside

Texas GLO’s Mitigation Plan Amendment fails to rectify discrimination in mitigation funding. Here are our official comments.

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 6, 2021

Texas Housers, alongside several community organizations, has continued to pressure the Texas General Land Office to ensure that CDBG Mitigation…

Tags: community development block grants, Houston, Port Arthur

Texas Housers new Southeast Texas Regional Director Julia Orduña supports a resident-empowered future

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted August 26, 2021

Texas Housers is proud to announce that Julia Orduña has been named our new Southeast Texas Regional Director. Julia joined…

Tags: Houston

Texas Housers calls on TxDOT withhold its Record of Decision on I-45 Expansion

Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 28, 2021

Texas Housers is committed to justice at the intersection of civil rights and housing. In Houston specifically, this means fighting the erosion…

Tags: Houston, I-45 expansion, nhhip

Texas Housers statement on City of Houston’s diversion of CARES Act funds to police, garbage bins

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 21, 2020

The CARES Act was designed to provide rent relief and other aid for complications caused by COVID-19. There have been…

Tags: covid-19, Houston

Calls on Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to allow a city council vote on temporary eviction moratorium

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 29, 2020

The Houston Chronicle reports that Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is refusing to put a moratorium on evictions before the Houston…

Tags: Coronavirus, covid-19, evection moratorium, evictions, Houston, Sylvester Turner

Texas Housers comments on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments outline the necessary action behind the city’s talk

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted April 20, 2020

On April 16, Texas Housers submitted comments alongside Texas Appleseed on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. Every…

Tags: AI, Fair housing, Houston

Podcast Episode 28: The COVID-19 housing crisis

A Little Louder•by Michael Depland•Posted April 3, 2020

The news cycle under COVID-19 has operated at a breakneck pace. For many, it’s been difficult to track what the…

Tags: A Little Louder, cares act, covid-19, Houston

Houston residents agree: less displacement, more transit with the I-45 expansion

Local issues•by Sophie Dulberg•Posted April 3, 2020

In the 1950s and 60s, when highways like I-10 and U.S. 59 were initially constructed through Houston neighborhoods, residents could…

Tags: Displacement, Houston, I-45 expansion

Basic necessities are scarce for everyone under COVID-19; residents in low-income households tell us it’s even worse for them.

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 24, 2020

“Our community has always survived without, so this isn’t necessarily new, but during a state of emergency, we are more…

Tags: covid-19, Houston, Transportation

Moms4Housing is a model of how to center tenants on the path to housing justice

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted February 17, 2020

In early January 2020, Oakland group Moms4Housing was subjected to a militarized eviction from an unoccupied home it had taken…

Tags: Houston, HUD, Moms4Housing

I-45 expansion in Houston offers little to numerous displaced residents, Texas Housers outlines in comments to TxDOT

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 12, 2020

The proposed expansion of I-45 in Houston, officially known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), is a prime…

Tags: Houston, I-45 expansion

Podcast Episode 22: Creosote in the Greater Fifth Ward

A Little Louder, Local issues, Studies•by •Posted January 10, 2020

The Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens areas of Houston are historic Black neighborhoods where families have proudly planted roots for…

Tags: Environmental justice, Fifth Ward, Houston, Podcast

‘Unsafe. Unsanitary. Unequal.’ is a digital experience from Texas Housers detailing segregation in Houston’s Project-Based Section 8 Housing

Local issues, State issues, Studies•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 2, 2020

In 2019, Texas Housers spent the entire year documenting the disadvantages for Black tenants in HUD-subsidized, Project-Based Section 8 Rental…

Tags: featured, Houston, HUD, project based section 8

Disaster Recovery in Houston is a tangled mess. This is what I learned that needs to change in my first six months.

Harvey Recovery, Local issues, State issues•by Julia Orduña•Posted December 17, 2019

Julia Orduña is Texas Housers’ Community Navigator in the greater Houston area. She is sharing her initial impressions of working…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Houston

Texas’ Health Department study officially confirms cancer cluster exists in Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens

Local issues•by Sophie Dulberg•Posted December 6, 2019

In August 2019, the Texas Department of State Health Services discovered what many residents of Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens in…

Tags: Creosote, Environmental justice, Houston

Houston neighborhoods of color should be supported under the Clean Water Act, but they aren’t. Here is how Texas Housers thinks the state should fix that.

State issues•by •Posted October 23, 2019
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Texas Housers recently submitted comments to the Texas Attorney General’s Office and Department of Justice regarding the consent decree between…

Tags: Consent Decree, EPA, Houston

Texas Housers presents the Tenant view of Houston’s segregation of Project Based Section 8 Housing in latest report

Local issues, Studies•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 10, 2019

Texas Housers is exploring the issues of HUD-subsidized housing from the perspective of the tenants. In Part 1 of a…

Tags: Houston, Report, Section 8

Houston’s I-45 expansion deeply damages life for low-income residents. Upholding the Four Rights could help them.

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted September 10, 2019

In 2015, partners of Texas Housers developed the Four Rights as a framework to discuss and practice fair housing. Those…

Tags: four rights, Houston, I-45 expansion

Houston’s downtown Opportunity Zone is a prime example why the program desperately needs reform

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted September 6, 2019

Since its creation in 2017, the Opportunity Zones program was touted by the Trump Administration as a measure to revitalize…

Tags: Houston, Opportunity Zones

Two years of disaster recovery: we are holding our fire for now as we listen to survivors and ask government for a honest accounting

Harvey Recovery, Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 1, 2019

In the two years since Hurricane Harvey made landfall, so much has changed. There has even been some encouraging movement…

Tags: Disaster recovery, GLO, Harris County, Houston, Hurricane Harvey

Harris County steps into a future of equitable recovery by passing the #HarrisThrives Resolution

Harvey Recovery, Local issues•by •Posted August 29, 2019

Two years ago this week, Hurricane Harvey made landfall over Southeast Texas. The storm’s strength didn’t just punish with its heavy…

Tags: Flooding, Harris County, HarrisThrives, Houston

Texas Housers explores Houston’s segregation of Project Based Section 8 Housing in a new report

Local issues, Studies•by •Posted August 20, 2019

The politics of who is in charge may shift through the years, but our commitment as a nation to providing…

Tags: Houston, Report, Section 8

The city of Houston says it wants to end impediments to Fair Housing using the Four Rights. It should lead by example.

Local issues•by Michael Depland•Posted August 13, 2019

Fair housing was signed into law to root out segregation and individual acts of discrimination. But it means so much…

Tags: Fair housing, four rights, Houston

The expansion of Interstate 45 is harming low-income communities in Houston. Here’s what can be done to fix that.

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted July 9, 2019

For the past several months, Texas Housers and our partners have been tracking the public concern around the expansion of…

Tags: Houston, I-45, txdot

TxDOT’S Historical Resources Report Omits Houston’s Independence Heights

Local issues, State issues, Studies•by •Posted June 24, 2019

For more than 14 years, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has been planning the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP),…

Tags: Environmental justice, Houston, txdot

Opportunity Zones were supposed to aid struggling areas. This luxury high rise using the program yet again only serves the wealthy.

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted May 9, 2019

Since the haphazard rollout of the Opportunity Zone program in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, advocates across…

Tags: Houston, Opportunity Zones

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