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Tag: public housing

Watch ‘Texas Housers 2021 Video Rewind’ as we spotlight the unique voices who fought for housing justice

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 20, 2022

We are starting off 2022 in a big way with a few videos highlighting what the last year looked like for Texas…

Tags: CourtWatch, evictions, featured, housing choice voucher, Houston, public housing, San Antonio, Texas Housers

Episode 20: A Look At RAD Conversion

A Little Louder, Local issues, National issues•by •Posted November 22, 2019

In 2012, Congress authorized some public housing agencies to convert units from their original federally-funded public housing developments to project-based Section 8…

Tags: Fort Worth, HUD, public housing, RAD

Déjà vu: Rebuilding public and subsidized housing damaged by the hurricane will have to wait

Harvey Recovery, State issues•by •Posted January 31, 2018

The state’s draft action plan for spending $57.8 million in federal disaster recovery funds was released on Jan. 18. The Texas General…

Tags: Hurricane rebuilding, Low income housing, public housing, State Action Plan

SAD FAKE NEWS: OMB Director vows “Nobody’s going to be kicked out of their houses”

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 18, 2017

A reporter asked President Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney a question at a press conference at the…

Tags: CDBG, housing choice vouchers, HUD, HUD budget, public housing

Estimates of housing voucher cuts for each Texas city under President’s budget

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 17, 2017

Thanks to research by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, we can now see the effects that President Trump’s proposed…

Tags: housing choice vouchers, public housing, Public housing authorities, Section 8, Texas

Video: Visualizing Houston’s housing segregation

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted September 23, 2016

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched a fair housing investigation after the City…

Tags: City of Houston, Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, Houston Housing Authority, HUD, public housing, segregation

The importance of speaking up for fair housing

Local issues•by •Posted March 24, 2016

I recently I had the pleasure of providing comment at a public meeting around the Houston Housing Authority’s Fountain View project,…

Tags: Fair housing, Houston, public housing

Video: Anger over proposed public housing in high opportunity Houston neighborhood

Local issues•by •Posted March 14, 2016

The public meeting on the Houston Housing Authority’s (HHA) proposal to build the Fountain View Apartments, a mixed-income apartment complex in…

Tags: Fair housing, Houston, Houston Housing Authority, public housing

Houston Chronicle editorial supports Fountain View proposal and fair housing

Local issues•by •Posted February 29, 2016

On February 25, the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle defended a proposed affordable housing development which has become the target of organized…

Tags: Fair housing, Houston, public housing

Houstonians should be angry about public housing – because of segregation

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted February 23, 2016

Note: A version of this post ran in the Gray Matters section of the Houston Chronicle on March 30. Our piece on…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, HHA, Houston, public housing

What’s behind the opposition to public housing in a high opportunity area in Houston?

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted February 9, 2016

(Update: After receiving a great deal of feedback on this post – see the comment section below – we posted…

Tags: Fair housing, Houston, Houston Housing Authority, public housing

Rebuilding public housing isn’t always so RAD

Local issues•by •Posted January 29, 2016

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…

Tags: El Paso, Fair housing, HUD, public housing, RAD, Vouchers

The Atlantic investigates segregated housing in Beaumont

Local issues•by •Posted June 19, 2015

Atlantic writer Alana Semuels visited Texas earlier this month to report on fair housing issues. Semuels has extensively covered housing for the magazine,…

Tags: Beaumont, media, public housing, segregation

HUD denies Beaumont housing plan that perpetuates segregation

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted January 28, 2015

The federal government will not support segregated housing in Beaumont, Texas. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)…

Tags: Beaumont, Fair housing, HUD, public housing

Opponents of public housing in Galveston file lawsuit claiming rebuilding public housing would further segregation

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

This situation is simply so bizarre it speaks for itself. From today’s Houston Chronicle GALVESTON – Opponents of public housing…

Tags: Fair housing, Galveston, Hurricane Ike, public housing

Galveston agrees to steps to rebuild public housing

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 23, 2013

It appears that the rebuilding of the 569 public housing in Galveston demolished in the wake of Hurricane Ike may be…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Galveston, Galveston Housing Authority, Galveston Texas, Hurricane Ike, public housing

State halts Galveston funding over failure to build public housing: TX Land Commissioner Patterson explains

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 11, 2013

By Jerry Patterson The city of Galveston has a choice to make as we try to move forward with plans…

Tags: Fair housing, Galveston, Galveston Housing Authority, Jerry Patterson, public housing

Once again recovery from a hurricane bypasses the poor

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 9, 2012

A New York Times editorial laments the type of government neglect that public housing residents in Texas know all too…

Tags: Galveston, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, public housing

Housing authority shake-up may be under way – Houston Chronicle

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 29, 2012

The Houston Chronicle reports… Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday replaced the board chairman of the Harris County Housing Authority,…

Tags: Harris County, Harris County Housing Authority, public housing, Public housing authorities

The Harris County Housing Authority gets motivated to act like the top 1 percent

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 27, 2012

If the previous blog post was not a sufficient indictment of the outrageous spending by the Harris County Housing Authority…

Tags: Harris County Housing Authority, Houston Chronicle, public housing

Harris County Housing Authority’s excesses exposed by Houston Chronicle

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 27, 2012

“Appalling. … One of the greater abuses of appointed office that I’ve seen,” Harris County Judge Ed Emmett told the Houston Chronicle. That does not…

Tags: Harris County, Harris County Housing Authority, Harris County Texas, public housing

HUD plays Grinch with its poorest tenants

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 17, 2012

A single mother with two children in Texas is potentially eligible to receive $260 per month from Temporary Assistance for…

Tags: Housing policy, HUD, public housing, Section 8 (housing), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD Secretary Donovan’s letter to PHAs about accepting ex-offenders

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2011

I commented earlier on HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan‘s letter to public housing authorities asking them to reconsider their policies on…

Tags: Housing policy, public housing, Public housing authorities

HUD pointedly directs Galveston to rebuild its public housing

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 15, 2011

In an unusual joint letter to Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski, three top HUD leaders told Galveston to move forward to rebuild…

Tags: Fair housing, Galveston Texas, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding, public housing

Wait gets longer for public housing in Galveston | Houston Chronicle

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 2, 2011

There is an interesting and sobering story about rebuilding Galveston public housing that ran in today’s Houston Chronicle. The story…

Tags: Galveston, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding, public housing

NLIHC Newsletter for Renters, Residents and Tenants

National issues•by •Posted June 16, 2011

National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has just released the second issue of Tenant Talk, a newsletter for low income…

Tags: housing choice vouchers, NLIHC, public housing, Section 3, Tenant Talk
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