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Tag: HUD

Texas Housers calls on FEMA and HUD to act quickly and equitably with Hurricane Fiona recovery in Puerto Rico, as future storms loom

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 28, 2022

On September 18, on the 33rd anniversary of Category 3 Hurricane Hugo and two days before the 5th Anniversary of…

Tags: Disaster recovery, FEMA, HUD, hurricane fiona, Puerto Rico

Read Northeast Action Collective and Texas Housers’ joint call on HUD to uphold civil rights where Texas has failed

State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted September 21, 2022

The Northeast Action Collective and Texas Housers continue to call on HUD to use all of its power to enforce…

Tags: CDBG MIT, HUD, Northeast Action Collective

Texas GLO must enter Voluntary Compliance Agreement or Southeast Texas communities of color will continue losing livelihoods and lives

Harvey Recovery, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted August 25, 2022

In March of 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development determined that the Texas General Land Office was discriminatory…

Tags: CDBG MIT, HUD, Texas GLO

Texas Housers calls on HUD to address the dire conditions and racial disparities at Millennia Properties

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 4, 2022

Texas Housers’ years of work in Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) housing has informed us on how management operates when…

Tags: HUD, millenia, sandpiper cove, Tenant rights

HUD finds that Texas GLO discriminated against communities of color in $4 billion CDBG-MIT program

National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 8, 2022

In a historic victory for communities of color in Houston and the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban…

Tags: CDBG, CDBG MIT, Disaster recovery, HUD, Texas GLO

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

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 14, 2022

There’s something important missing from the recent news reports on HUD’s decision to withhold $1.95 billion of federal disaster mitigation…

Tags: CDBG, HUD, Texas GLO

Podcast Episode 34: President Biden’s Executive Orders On Housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 29, 2021

It’s a new year and a new administration has moved into the White House. On the first day of the…

Tags: A Little Louder, AFFH, Fair Housing Act, HUD

HUD’s $50 million Housing Mobility grant is a challenge for Texas Public Housing Authorities to step up

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 15, 2020
SAHA building

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced it is making available $50 million to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)…

Tags: housing mobility, HUD, Public housing authorities

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

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted March 19, 2020

This week, President Trump announced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is “suspending all foreclosures and evictions until…

Tags: covid-19, evictions, HUD

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

Texas Housers defends AFFH rule in statement to Congressional Oversight Committee for ‘Fair Housing Accountability’ hearing

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted February 5, 2020

On February 5, Congress is holding a hearing entitled “The Trump Administration’s Proposal to Gut Fair Housing Accountability” to discuss…

Tags: AFFH, Congress, HUD

In a series of op-eds, Texas Housers outline injustices with HUD’s protection rollbacks and Houston’s cancer cluster

Local issues, National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 29, 2020

Texas Housers is committed to housing justice in all the avenues that we use. Communities where individuals and families suffer…

Tags: Cancer Cluster, Fifth Ward, HUD, Kashmere Gardens, op-ed

Texas Housers opposes HUD’s further retreat from promoting and enforcing fair housing

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 9, 2020

This week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Secretary Ben Carson abdicated its role as the country’s…

Tags: AFFH, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD

‘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

Episode 20: A Look At RAD Conversion

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues•by •Posted November 22, 2019

In 2012, Congress authorized some public housing agencies to convert units from their original federally-funded public housing developments to project-based Section 8…

Tags: Fort Worth, HUD, public housing, RAD

Listen to Texas Housers on KUT radio explaining HUD’s attempted dismantling of the Disparate Impact Rule

National issues•by Michael Depland•Posted October 22, 2019

As the decision from HUD on keeping the Disparate Impact Rule intact hangs in the balance, Texas Housers has been…

Tags: Disparate impact, HUD, media

Texas Housers decries HUD’s dismantling of the Disparate Impact Rule with public comments available for all

National issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted October 18, 2019

Last night, Texas Housers submitted public comments opposing HUD’s changes to the Disparate Impact Rule. For more than 40 years,…

Tags: Disparate impact, HUD, public comment

HUD is giving Fort Worth an Envision Center when its at-risk neighborhoods need a clear vision for their fraught future

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted September 4, 2019

“Housing assistance should be more than just putting a roof over someone’s head,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson told a Fort…

Tags: Envision Centers, Fort Worth, HUD, Stop Six

Texas Housers and Texas Appleseed urge HUD to follow established law in joint comment on mixed-status families

National issues, State issues•by Michael Depland•Posted July 10, 2019

HUD’s proposal to disrupt the lives of mixed immigration status families is both contradictory to meaning of the law intended…

Tags: HUD, Immigration, Mixed Status Families

Podcast episode 10: Inside HUD’s plan that may threaten mixed-status families

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted May 17, 2019

In episode 10, Texas Housers breaks down the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development new proposed rule to evict…

Tags: federal subsidy, HUD

Poor living conditions in a Galveston subsidized apartment complex add to the island’s affordable housing crisis

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted May 3, 2019

In episode 9 of our podcast, A Little Louder, we talk about how a subsidized apartment complex in Galveston is…

Tags: federal subsidy, Galveston, Galveston Housing Authority, Galveston Texas, HUD

Hundreds of thousands of tenants could be at risk of eviction if the government shutdown continues

National issues•by •Posted January 8, 2019

The government shutdown is in its 18th day today and more than 1,000 contracts between landlords and the U.S. Department…

Tags: HUD

Secretary Carson asks anybody to offer examples of housing discrimination HUD has ignored and pledges to be on it “like white on rice.” Here you go Mr. Secretary

National issues, Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted July 18, 2018

HUD Secretary Ben Carson assured members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee three weeks ago that he and HUD…

Tags: ben carson, Fair housing, HUD

Texas Housers and advocacy partners receive support in lawsuit against HUD over failure to enforce fair housing law

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted June 8, 2018

Numerous cities and states, including the City of Austin, as well as housing and anti-poverty advocates, filed amicus briefs this…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, ben carson, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD, lawsuit, national fair housing alliance

Civil rights groups amend lawsuit to challenge HUD’s latest attempt to erode fair housing progress

National issues•by •Posted May 30, 2018

The National Fair Housing Alliance, Texas Housers and Texas Appleseed filed an amended complaint and a new preliminary injunction motion…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD, lawsuit

HUD is strangling fair housing progress. Advocates must march on toward just and inclusive communities.

National issues•by •Posted April 4, 2018

Michael Allen on fair housing after 50 years from Texas Housers on Vimeo. The arc of the moral universe is…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD

Part 2: In a segregated Houston unequal neighborhoods mean unequal flood protection

Local issues, National issues•by •Posted March 22, 2018

This is the second part of a two-part blog on Texas Housers turning to the courts to direct the U.S.…

Tags: Civil rights, Fair housing, Flooding, Houston, HUD, lawsuit, Title VI

HUD must not abandon its duty to fight housing discrimination

National issues•by •Posted March 9, 2018

(Photo above: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act in 1965) In the face…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Housing Discrimination, HUD

Community planning and resiliency expert encourages being purposeful and prepared during hurricane rebuilding

Harvey Recovery, Local issues•by •Posted February 22, 2018

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Houston has an opportunity to leverage its unique characteristics to build not only a…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Harriet Tregoning, Houston, HUD, Hurricane, Hurricane recovery

How the state should evaluate the needs of survivors after a disaster

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by •Posted February 12, 2018

The state’s draft action plan for spending $57.8 million in federal disaster recovery funds was released on Jan. 18. The Texas General…

Tags: CDBG-DR, Disaster recovery, GLO, HUD, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, State Action Plan

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