Houston Town Hall on Disaster Single Family Home Repair
On Saturday, May 21, 2011, Texas Organizing Project (TOP) along with other supporting organizations spearheaded a record attendance Town HallContinue Reading
On Saturday, May 21, 2011, Texas Organizing Project (TOP) along with other supporting organizations spearheaded a record attendance Town HallContinue Reading
One of the conditions of the TxLIHIS – Texas Appleseed – State of Texas Fair Housing settlement on hurricane recoveryContinue Reading
John Henneberger, a Co-Director of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, spoke at the May 5, 2011 board meetingContinue Reading
The New York Times published this editorial Monday about our settlement with the State of Texas. Editorial HUD Steps UpContinue Reading
HUD ACCEPTS $1.7 BILLION REVISED DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN PRIORITIZING REBUILDING HOMES OF SURVIVORS An historic agreement between affordable housing advocates,Continue Reading
The settlement agreement can be viewed as a PDF document on the HUD website: http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2010/HUDNo.10-106/conciliationagreement.pdf
HUD has issued an announcement of their approval of of the settlement agreement to the TxLIHIS/Texas Appleseed fair housing complaintContinue Reading
Mike Synder of the Houston Chronicle this weekend picked up on the story about Governor Perry’s diversion of funds awayContinue Reading
There is really no other way to characterize the plan Governor Perry submitted to HUD to spend $1.7 billion inContinue Reading
Things did not slow down during the holidays over the shape of Hurricane Ike and Dolly rebuilding programs in Texas,Continue Reading
People have asked me what we want from the Texas CDBG Disaster Rebuilding Plan that we have criticized and thatContinue Reading
On November 10, HUD Assistant Secretary Mercedes Marquez issued a letter to Governor Rick Perry denying the State of Texas’sContinue Reading
HUD has rejected the State of Texas Plan to spend $1.7 billion in CDBG disaster recovery funds for Hurricane DollyContinue Reading
The State of Texas is required to submit a plan amendment to HUD by September 30 outlining its final planContinue Reading
Not surprisingly the ill-conceived “weather report plan” proposed by ORCA to divide up the federal disaster recovery dollars in TexasContinue Reading
ORCA has proposed to allocate the remaining $1.3 billion of the $3,057,991,440 in Ike/Dolly CDBG rebuilding funds based on a modelContinue Reading
Joe Higgs, organizer for Gulf Coast Interfaith, laid out clearly the problems with the proposed State of Texas plan toContinue Reading
In his column today Houston Chronicle featured columnist Rick Casey speculates about why Governor Perry is allowing the Texas OfficeContinue Reading
We share the state auditor’s concerns in a report just released about the unacceptable length of time it takes theContinue Reading
The pieces are slowly coming together to answer the question, why were so many applications for FEMA housing assistance inContinue Reading
How many times do we have to hear the story before it sinks in? Let’s sum up the government responseContinue Reading
It has been almost a year since Hurricane Ike’s and Hurricane Dolly’s floodwaters rose above streets, and above doors andContinue Reading
Lots of hard work has gone into the production of the Galveston Long Term Recovery Plan. The citizens behind thisContinue Reading
Renters and rental housing were particularly hard hit by Hurricane Ike. Yet renters and rental housing needs are being shortchangedContinue Reading
The June 4 issue of the Wall Street Journal reports that Houston leaders are pushing a plan to protect againstContinue Reading
African-American households reside in areas most vulnerable to hurricanes in the greater Galveston Bay area. Census tracts in which 60%Continue Reading
I have to fess up. Having pointed out in yesterday’s blog the unacceptably slow pace of rebuilding homes destroyed inContinue Reading
After reviewing the Disaster Recovery Plan that the Texas Office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA) submitted to HUD the TexasContinue Reading
One had to feel sorry for Michael Gerber Thursday morning. Appearing before a subcommittee of the Texas House Appropriations CommitteeContinue Reading
Texas should allocate the limited disaster funds so that they take care of the housing needs of Hurricane Ike/Dolly survivorsContinue Reading