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Watch ‘Texas Housers 2021 Video Rewind’ as we spotlight the unique voices who fought for housing justice
We are starting off 2022 in a big way with a few videos highlighting what the last year looked like for Texas…
A Little Louder Episode 41: Houston’s Dangerous Apartment Problem Part 1
A Little Louder is launching a new miniseries within our show on substandard housing in Texas. Our latest episode kicks…
Texas GLO’s Mitigation Plan Amendment fails to rectify discrimination in mitigation funding. Here are our official comments.
Texas Housers, alongside several community organizations, has continued to pressure the Texas General Land Office to ensure that CDBG Mitigation…
Texas Housers new Southeast Texas Regional Director Julia Orduña supports a resident-empowered future
Texas Housers is proud to announce that Julia Orduña has been named our new Southeast Texas Regional Director. Julia joined…
Texas Housers calls on TxDOT withhold its Record of Decision on I-45 Expansion
Texas Housers is committed to justice at the intersection of civil rights and housing. In Houston specifically, this means fighting the erosion…
Texas Housers statement on City of Houston’s diversion of CARES Act funds to police, garbage bins
The CARES Act was designed to provide rent relief and other aid for complications caused by COVID-19. There have been…
Calls on Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to allow a city council vote on temporary eviction moratorium
The Houston Chronicle reports that Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is refusing to put a moratorium on evictions before the Houston…
Texas Housers comments on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments outline the necessary action behind the city’s talk
On April 16, Texas Housers submitted comments alongside Texas Appleseed on Houston’s Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. Every…
Podcast Episode 28: The COVID-19 housing crisis
The news cycle under COVID-19 has operated at a breakneck pace. For many, it’s been difficult to track what the…
Houston residents agree: less displacement, more transit with the I-45 expansion
In the 1950s and 60s, when highways like I-10 and U.S. 59 were initially constructed through Houston neighborhoods, residents could…
Basic necessities are scarce for everyone under COVID-19; residents in low-income households tell us it’s even worse for them.
“Our community has always survived without, so this isn’t necessarily new, but during a state of emergency, we are more…
Moms4Housing is a model of how to center tenants on the path to housing justice
In early January 2020, Oakland group Moms4Housing was subjected to a militarized eviction from an unoccupied home it had taken…
I-45 expansion in Houston offers little to numerous displaced residents, Texas Housers outlines in comments to TxDOT
The proposed expansion of I-45 in Houston, officially known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), is a prime…
Podcast Episode 22: Creosote in the Greater Fifth Ward
The Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens areas of Houston are historic Black neighborhoods where families have proudly planted roots for…
‘Unsafe. Unsanitary. Unequal.’ is a digital experience from Texas Housers detailing segregation in Houston’s Project-Based Section 8 Housing
In 2019, Texas Housers spent the entire year documenting the disadvantages for Black tenants in HUD-subsidized, Project-Based Section 8 Rental…
Disaster Recovery in Houston is a tangled mess. This is what I learned that needs to change in my first six months.
Julia Orduña is Texas Housers’ Community Navigator in the greater Houston area. She is sharing her initial impressions of working…
Texas’ Health Department study officially confirms cancer cluster exists in Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens
In August 2019, the Texas Department of State Health Services discovered what many residents of Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens in…
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.
Texas Housers recently submitted comments to the Texas Attorney General’s Office and Department of Justice regarding the consent decree between…
Texas Housers presents the Tenant view of Houston’s segregation of Project Based Section 8 Housing in latest report
Texas Housers is exploring the issues of HUD-subsidized housing from the perspective of the tenants. In Part 1 of a…
Houston’s I-45 expansion deeply damages life for low-income residents. Upholding the Four Rights could help them.
In 2015, partners of Texas Housers developed the Four Rights as a framework to discuss and practice fair housing. Those…
Houston’s downtown Opportunity Zone is a prime example why the program desperately needs reform
Since its creation in 2017, the Opportunity Zones program was touted by the Trump Administration as a measure to revitalize…
Two years of disaster recovery: we are holding our fire for now as we listen to survivors and ask government for a honest accounting
In the two years since Hurricane Harvey made landfall, so much has changed. There has even been some encouraging movement…
Harris County steps into a future of equitable recovery by passing the #HarrisThrives Resolution
Two years ago this week, Hurricane Harvey made landfall over Southeast Texas. The storm’s strength didn’t just punish with its heavy…
Texas Housers explores Houston’s segregation of Project Based Section 8 Housing in a new report
The politics of who is in charge may shift through the years, but our commitment as a nation to providing…
The city of Houston says it wants to end impediments to Fair Housing using the Four Rights. It should lead by example.
Fair housing was signed into law to root out segregation and individual acts of discrimination. But it means so much…
The expansion of Interstate 45 is harming low-income communities in Houston. Here’s what can be done to fix that.
For the past several months, Texas Housers and our partners have been tracking the public concern around the expansion of…
TxDOT’S Historical Resources Report Omits Houston’s Independence Heights
For more than 14 years, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has been planning the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP),…
Opportunity Zones were supposed to aid struggling areas. This luxury high rise using the program yet again only serves the wealthy.
Since the haphazard rollout of the Opportunity Zone program in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, advocates across…
Black and Latino residents live in more pollution than they cause. This is clearer in Houston more than anywhere else.
Early in March, a team of professors and researchers from universities nationwide published a study in Proceedings of the National…