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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…
The Stunning Difference Between These Neighborhood Storm Drains Is Inequality At Work
The equality in government resources, specifically storm drainage in Houston, is a path toward justice and a major policy priority…
Our country and communities created neighborhood segregation. Houston, one of the most diverse cities in America, is no exception.
(Pictured, Texas Housers Southeast Texas co-director Zoe Middleton and Texas Housers community planner Libby Bland pose with author and scholar…
Job opportunity: Texas Housers hiring Southeast Texas co-director to lead team of researchers, planners and organizers
Texas Housers, Texas foremost housing policy research and advocacy organization, seeks a leader dedicated to racial and economic justice, possessing…
Houston coalition holds People’s Tribunal to amplify voices of vulnerable hurricane survivors
As the one year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey approached the Houston Organizing Movement for Equity coalition also known as HOME…
New report details how Houston floodplain ordinance can worsen inequality in face of future floods
On April 3, 2018, the Houston City Council voted to make Chapter 19, the city’s Floodplain Management Ordinance, more stringent.…
Tenants at Houston’s flooded, distressed Arbor Court Apartments sue HUD for intentional racial discrimination
(Photo above is of red tag, labeling Arbor Courts as a fire hazard) HUD Secretary Ben Carson declared that conditions…
Notes from the field: Houston mom says her home is making her sons sick. She and many others are demanding better.
“A decent, safe place to come home to, where I can give my kids a good life.” Ask any of…
Texas Housers submits comments to City of Houston on proposed Hurricane Harvey action plan
Texas Housers submitted comments to the City of Houston last week about the city’s proposed plan for spending $1.15 billion…
Where health happens: Housing’s impact on health and quality of life
Image by Elizabeth Conley from Houston Chronicle This post was written by Quianta Moore, M.D., J.D., a Child Health Policy Fellow at…
Homeowners demand state officials fix disaster recovery partial home repair program
This week, Houston homeowners spoke out about their experience with the state-run, FEMA-funded rapid repair program, called PREPS. One homeowner…
Part 2: In a segregated Houston unequal neighborhoods mean unequal flood protection
This is the second part of a two-part blog on Texas Housers turning to the courts to direct the U.S.…
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu shares lessons learned from recovery in New Orleans
Houston has a responsibility to its community to rebuild Houston stronger than it was before Hurricane Harvey. In order to…
#OutOfOrder comes to Houston City Hall
Yesterday outside Houston City Hall, a multigenerational group of tenants and tenant advocates joined together to highlight dangerous code violations…
Community planning and resiliency expert encourages being purposeful and prepared during hurricane rebuilding
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Houston has an opportunity to leverage its unique characteristics to build not only a…
Houston coalition for equitable recovery advocates more resources for low-income survivors in comments to Texas officials
A Houston-based coalition advocating an equitable recovery for vulnerable survivors of Hurricane Harvey is calling on the State of Texas…
Sunnyside neighborhood leaders release report with UT Law clinic on dangerous apartment conditions
This week, community leaders of the Sunnyside neighborhood in Houston released a report that shines a light on some of…
Greatest concentration of unmet Hurricane Harvey housing need in Harris County is in low-income communities of color
Unmet Housing Needs of Hurricane Harvey Survivors in Houston/Harris County from Texas Housers on Vimeo. In Houston and Harris County…
We demand HUD address City of Houston and Housing Authority violations of civil rights laws
The Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS) has told the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that it…
Lessons from past disaster recovery can inform the road ahead post-Harvey
The job ahead in Hurricane Harvey recovery from Texas Housers on Vimeo. The National Weather Service called the flooding from…
Listen: Potential relocation of I-45 risks displacement, loss of identity for Houston’s Fifth Ward
The proposal to expand and reroute Interstate 45 along the eastern end of Houston’s downtown has raised concerns about…
Video: Texas Housers Houston co-director talks to New York Times about segregation
“It should not be the government’s role to dictate where people can and can’t live. People should always have a…
New York Times: Houston demonstrates how affordable housing programs perpetuate racial segregation
No politician has the right to tell families where to live – especially not because of their race or income. Doing…
Southeast Houston residents demand a voice after long-overdue demolition of blighted apartments
Tearing down the blighted Crestmont Village apartment complex is important for the safety of southeast Houston residents. But the City’s…
Residents stand up to elected officials, defend the right to have a say in Sunnyside
A Houston City Council Member’s recent response to a Sunnyside neighborhood leader perfectly exemplifies why low income, segregated communities still…
Video: At forum, Houston co-director calls out systemic housing inequalities
On a wide-ranging panel discussion on housing affordability and opportunity, Texas Housers Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay outlined the real issue facing too…
Health inequalities are strongly reflected in Houston’s residential racial segregation
Neighborhood inequality is most often measured by an area’s physical and economic characteristics. Yet health inequalities between neighborhoods receive less attention…