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Tag: Inclusive Communities Project

Podcast Episode 23: The mandate to affirmatively further fair housing

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted January 24, 2020

There is no question that the impetus for Congress passing and President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1968 Fair Housing…

Tags: AFFH, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Civil rights, Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, Podcast

Master leases provide relief to voucher holders discriminated against in search for for decent housing

Local issues, State issues•by Sophie Dulberg•Posted November 1, 2018

Only one in four people who qualify for rental assistance in this country receive it. It’s no wonder that getting…

Tags: housing choice vouchers, Inclusive Communities Project, Mobility, Voucher discrimination

Suit filed to overturn Texas prohibition on source of income protection for voucher holders

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 17, 2017

In Texas, there is a law formally protecting landlord discrimination against people with housing vouchers, most of whom are African-American. A lawsuit filed Thursday in…

Tags: Fair housing, Housing Discrimination, Inclusive Communities Project, Section 8, Texas Apartment Association, Texas Legislature

An important look at the context behind Supreme Court case on Texas housing segregation

National issues, State issues•by •Posted March 5, 2015

This week’s cover story in the Fort Worth Weekly illustrates exactly why the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, Inclusive Communities Project, media, supreme court, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Dallas Morning News editorial: High court must not perpetuate segregation

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 21, 2015

In a strongly worded editorial the Dallas Morning News has called on the US Supreme Court to reject the State…

Tags: Dallas, Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

A Texas houser’s thoughts on the State of Texas’ appeal of the Dallas fair housing case to the Supreme Court

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 5, 2014

As a whole, Texas has made some real progress toward equal opportunity and fair housing in the forty-six years since…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, State of Texas v. Inclusive Communities Project, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Supreme Court agrees to hear State of Texas’ appeal of Inclusive Communities v. State of Texas

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 2, 2014

The United States Supreme Court agreed today to hear and appeal in Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Department of Housing…

Tags: Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities Project, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Texas housing tax credit fair housing case oral arguments before 5th Circuit Court include lively questions and answers

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 4, 2013

Yesterday’s oral arguments in the State of Texas’ appeal of the District Court’s ruling in the Inclusive Communities Project vs. Texas…

Tags: Civil rights, Fair housing, Inclusive Communities Project, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Court rules Texas Housing Tax Credit program violates Fair Housing Act

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 20, 2012

This morning a federal court ruled in a case filed by a Dallas fair housing organization that the way the State…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing, Inclusive Communities Project, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
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