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Tag: HUD
Proposed program change would provide voucher holders with greater choice, opportunity
A proposed rule change for the use of federal Housing Choice Vouchers would greatly improve the chance that housing vouchers will do what they…
Rebuilding public housing isn’t always so RAD
Interesting news from my hometown of El Paso this month: The Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (HACEP) announced they will begin rebuilding two…
A push to embrace fair housing reality in the Dallas area
During a prominent time for fair housing in America, the Dallas area has been the epicenter, thanks in large part…
HUD issues guidelines for new fair housing regulation
On the last day of 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the final version of its…
Announcing the 2015 Texas Houser Awards
On November 4, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service will honor four outstanding individuals at the 2015 Texas Houser Awards.…
Secretary Castro marks HUD’s 50th anniversary in Austin
At the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, 50 years to the day since President Lyndon B. Johnson established the…
Register now for webinar access to next week’s federal fair housing conference
Our co-director John Henneberger is a featured speaker at next week’s National Fair Housing Policy and Training Conference, organized by…
Texas is no longer a good example of source of income protection
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro appeared on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio on…
#ZipCodeMatters: HUD issues new and important fair housing regulation
The Obama administration has just announced a much-anticipated regulation designed to make the Fair Housing Act more effective at eliminating…
Anti-source of income protection legislation signed into law
On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 267, officially banning any local ordinances that protect people with housing vouchers…
HUD’s proposed change to voucher program could increase housing choice
It’s right there in the name: The Housing Choice Voucher program is supposed to provide families with vouchers with a…
Update: Texas House approves statewide source of income protection ban
Update 5/23: The House voted 93-44, with one representative voting ‘present’ vote and 12 absent, to pass SB 267 on third reading…
National Housing Trust Fund at risk of losing funding
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) approved…
Update: Proposed Senate budget amendments to cut rural housing programs not included in vote
Update 3/27: The Senate’s marathon “vote-a-rama” ended this morning without a vote on the Hatch and Flake amendments. Original Post 3/26: Yesterday…
New proposal for colonia funding provides opportunity for Texas
On Friday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a plan to increase the funding that states…
What you need to know about HUD’s National Housing Trust Fund regulations
Yesterday the National Low Income Housing Coalition held an informative webinar on the regulations for the National Housing Trust Fund…
HUD denies Beaumont housing plan that perpetuates segregation
The federal government will not support segregated housing in Beaumont, Texas. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)…
Dallas Morning News Editorial gets it partly right: Dallas needs to fix its housing policies
The HUD letter of findings of civil rights violations continues to reverberate in Dallas. In a strongly worded editorial today…
“Its Westchester on steroids”: HUD finds Dallas in non-compliance with fair housing laws, seeks sweeping remedies
“Its Westchester on steroids,” is how one civil rights advocate characterized HUD’s findings against the City of Dallas, referring to…
Thanksgiving check-in on the homeless in Texas — maybe intractable social problems can be solved after all
It seems that Thanksgiving is one of the few times many people worry about the homeless. Let’s join the crowd…
New proposed HUD Fair Housing Rule released
Today HUD posted it’s long awaited new rules regarding how local and state governments affirmatively further fair housing. These…
HUD closing Dallas and Lubbock field offices to cut costs
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Wednesday announced a series of restructuring and systemic changes within its Office…
Texas can act now to prevent the next industrial disaster in Port Arthur and Texas City
Bill Minutaglio, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, the author of “City on Fire: The Explosion…
Franklin the Fair Housing Fox… seriously?
April is Fair Housing Month, the time of year for cities to pass resolutions that no one reads solemnly proclaiming…
HUD Texas Sequester Letter
Below is a copy of the letter from HUD to Texas Governor Rick Perry regarding the impact of the sequester…
An important milestone for civil rights: HUD issues final fair housing “disparate impact rule”
Years in the making, HUD yesterday issued the final rule on proving “disparate impact” under the Fair Housing Act. The…
HUD Secretary Donovan discusses fair housing with state housing coalitions
At a meeting this week HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan discussed HUD’s approach to fair housing with leaders of state low-income…
2nd installment of ProPublica Fair Housing investigation details Westchester, NY problems
The second article in a major investigative series titled “Living Apart: Fair Housing in America” about HUD’s enforcement of fair housing…
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica. Nikole Hannah-Jones of the news service Pro…