The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced it is making available $50 million to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)Continue Reading
Thanks to research by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, we can now see the effects that President Trump’s proposedContinue Reading
The Houston Chronicle reports… Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday replaced the board chairman of the Harris County Housing Authority,Continue Reading
Bo McCarver’s housing news clips posted on this blog this week has a story from the AP headlined, “Early morningContinue Reading
I commented earlier on HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan‘s letter to public housing authorities asking them to reconsider their policies onContinue Reading
The Galveston County Daily News is reporting Galveston Housing Authority Executive Director Harish Krishnarao resigned effective immediately during an executiveContinue Reading
The Dallas Housing Authority’s board of directors (DHA) adopted a new policy this week to require public housing tenants toContinue Reading
I blogged last week about the need for housing programs to recognize the housing needs of families well below 30Continue Reading
I toured the three devastated public housing developments in Galveston this week and what I saw sickened, depressed and angeredContinue Reading
Amen! House poor Make restoring Galveston’s public housing a priority Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Nov. 10, 2008 More than threeContinue Reading
Traditionally public and Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers play a major role in providing affordable housing within major US cities. Continue Reading
Lenwood Johnson, Texas’ foremost public housing advocate, sent me an email this afternoon about the prospects for rebuilding public housingContinue Reading
In 1968, at the end of his political career, with barely one month left in his term as president, LBJContinue Reading
Seventy years ago here, in Austin Texas, Lyndon Johnson a young, first-term congressman took up the cause of housing theContinue Reading
The elite media has decided to focus on whether Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders are bringing crime to suburbanContinue Reading
Ann Lott, executive director of the Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) has resigned under pressure from members of the housing authority’sContinue Reading
Amidst a lot of anger and outrage directed at a proposed development in Northeast Austin proposing to provide transitional housingContinue Reading
Watch our interview with Professor Fox on the origins of public housing in Texas. A number of years ago KarenContinue Reading
The Dallas Morning News ran a story by Kim Horner on June 23 about 500 Section 8 vouchers that haveContinue Reading
In the course of updating our databases of all the multifamily subsidized housing in Texas this week I manually extractedContinue Reading