The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is directly threatening the very same low-income people that they are charged…
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HUD and Texas scapegoat immigrants instead of improving affordable housing for all Texans
The Trump administration and Texas’ state leaders should be trying to fix the housing affordability crisis for low-income Texans, but…
A Little Louder Episode 80: What’s Happening With Texas’ Continuums Of Care?
HUD’s Continuum of Care program provide critical support systems for those who are either experiencing or nearing homelessness. These CoCs…
HUD closes Texas Housers’ case investigating Texas GLO discrimination in larger dismantling of disparate impact and civil rights protections
On January 15, 2025, in the final days of the Biden Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)…
HUD finds that GLO ‘intentionally discriminated’ against Black and Brown Texans, refers case to DOJ
Texas Housers and the Northeast Action Collective (NAC) have fought since 2018 to compel the Texas General Land Office to…
The biggest challenge with Disaster Recovery funding is time. This bill will speed up the process for millions of households.
In states like Texas, we know the seriousness that natural disasters must be treated with. Without preparation and plans in…
Beryl aftermath signals the start of a turbulent hurricane season for coastal Texas
Houston has endured many storms in the past seven years - including tropical storms, winter storms, and straight lined storms…
Read Texas Housers’ comments on HUD’s Proposed Rule ‘Reducing Barriers to HUD-Assisted Housing’
Texas Housers has issued its comment on HUD’s Proposed Rule “Reducing Barriers to HUD-Assisted Housing.” The proposed rule intends to…
HUD’s voucher programs can’t truly help those they serve without necessary change to ensure access, fairness
In our previous blog covering the Southeast Tenant Information Organization (SETIO), the tenant group formed from residents at Cabo San…
HUD’s rules are intended to protect tenants in need. At Coppertree, tenants had to fight the department to seek justice.
This blog is the second entry in a three part series chronicling the efforts and struggles of residents attempting to…
Texas Housers calls on FEMA and HUD to act quickly and equitably with Hurricane Fiona recovery in Puerto Rico, as future storms loom
On September 18, on the 33rd anniversary of Category 3 Hurricane Hugo and two days before the 5th Anniversary of…
Read Northeast Action Collective and Texas Housers’ joint call on HUD to uphold civil rights where Texas has failed
The Northeast Action Collective and Texas Housers continue to call on HUD to use all of its power to enforce…
Texas GLO must enter Voluntary Compliance Agreement or Southeast Texas communities of color will continue losing livelihoods and lives
In March of 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development determined that the Texas General Land Office was discriminatory…
Texas Housers calls on HUD to address the dire conditions and racial disparities at Millennia Properties
Texas Housers’ years of work in Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) housing has informed us on how management operates when…
HUD finds that Texas GLO discriminated against communities of color in $4 billion CDBG-MIT program
In a historic victory for communities of color in Houston and the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban…
HUD stopping State of Texas’s misuse of federal disaster mitigation funds is not about paperwork or politics, it’s about saying no to discrimination
There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigation…
Podcast Episode 34: President Biden’s Executive Orders On Housing
It’s a new year and a new administration has moved into the White House. On the first day of the…
HUD’s $50 million Housing Mobility grant is a challenge for Texas Public Housing Authorities to step up
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced it is making available $50 million to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)…
HUD stated it is encouraging public housing authorities to stop evictions during the COVID-19 crisis, but it’s excluding the majority of its tenants
This week, President Trump announced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is “suspending all foreclosures and evictions until…
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…
Texas Housers defends AFFH rule in statement to Congressional Oversight Committee for ‘Fair Housing Accountability’ hearing
On February 5, Congress is holding a hearing entitled “The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability” to discuss…
In a series of op-eds, Texas Housers outline injustices with HUD’s protection rollbacks and Houston’s cancer cluster
Texas Housers is committed to housing justice in all the avenues that we use. Communities where individuals and families suffer…
Texas Housers opposes HUD’s further retreat from promoting and enforcing fair housing
This week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Secretary Ben Carson abdicated its role as the country’s…
‘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…
Episode 20: A Look At RAD Conversion
In 2012, Congress authorized some public housing agencies to convert units from their original federally-funded public housing developments to project-based Section 8…
Listen to Texas Housers on KUT radio explaining HUD’s attempted dismantling of the Disparate Impact Rule
As the decision from HUD on keeping the Disparate Impact Rule intact hangs in the balance, Texas Housers has been…
Texas Housers decries HUD’s dismantling of the Disparate Impact Rule with public comments available for all
Last night, Texas Housers submitted public comments opposing HUD’s changes to the Disparate Impact Rule. For more than 40 years,…
Lawsuit by four Texas renters says State of Texas, HUD discriminate on race in Hurricane Harvey aid
Four South Texas renters filed a civil rights lawsuit last week in federal court alleging HUD and the State of…
HUD is giving Fort Worth an Envision Center when its at-risk neighborhoods need a clear vision for their fraught future
“Housing assistance should be more than just putting a roof over someone’s head,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson told a Fort…
Texas Housers and Texas Appleseed urge HUD to follow established law in joint comment on mixed-status families
HUD’s proposal to disrupt the lives of mixed immigration status families is both contradictory to meaning of the law intended…