A document introduced into evidence today in the Dallas public corruption trial surrounding the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit…
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Tax credit apartments for extremely low income families focus in Dallas public corruption trial
A request to get the Dallas City Council to waive requirements that a portion of the apartments built by Low…
FBI recordings show tax credit developer and indicted local officials discussed redirecting housing bonds away from the poor
If you want to be discouraged about the way affordable housing has done in Texas all you need to do…
A culture of greed tarnishes the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit program
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Texas is sometimes more about the developers making money building housing and…
Let’s take care to avoid developer windfalls in the new LIHTC program
I haven’t discussed it much yet, but there’s a lot to be said about the new Low Income Housing Tax…
It is not a proposal to build a toxic waste dump for Pete’s sake!
I came across this sign today in Austin providing a “public notice” regarding an application to build housing for the…
Article explores causes of American Housing Foundation collapse
The Austin American-Statesman’s Eric Dexhiemer has a really good background story on the collapse of the American Housing Foundation in…
Texas LIHTC corruption case should embarrass us into taking action
I don’t know who, if anyone, is guilty in the Dallas Low Income Housing Tax Credit public corruption case that…
North Texas emerges as ground zero in newly energized fight against racial housing segregation
North Texas is becoming ground zero in the fight against residential racial segregation. This thanks to the experienced and increasingly…
President Bush considers pardoning former Texas housing agency board member
ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, is reporting that President Bush is considering…
Could a federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prove disasterous for low income rental housing?
Who would have thought we would be looking at a federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Because it…
State housing agency board acts fiscally responsibly on LIHTC awards
My compliments to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) board of directors who rejected pleas from low…
A critical moment in the housing tax credit program looms
On August 14 the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) hosted a “work group” to gather input on…
Something went terribly wrong at the Pleasant Village Apartments
“This is a terrible place to live, and I just don’t know how to get out.” – a resident of…
Texas Housercast: Talking energy saving and green building in low income housing
This week’s Texas housercast is an interview with Walter Moreau, executive director of Austin’s Foundation Communities the state’s largest nonprofit…
New housing bill presents TDHCA a test of its public purpose
When President Bush signed the big housing bill Wednesday he ushered in a number of changes to the Low Income…
Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Dallas frozen and challanged in lawsuit
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Dallas has been effectively shut down for several years and is now…