Watch ‘Texas Housers 2021 Video Rewind’ as we spotlight the unique voices who fought for housing justice
We are starting off 2022 in a big way with a few videos highlighting what the last year looked like for TexasContinue Reading
We are starting off 2022 in a big way with a few videos highlighting what the last year looked like for TexasContinue Reading
In 2012, Congress authorized some public housing agencies to convert units from their original federally-funded public housing developments to project-based Section 8Continue Reading
The state’s draft action plan for spending $57.8 million in federal disaster recovery funds was released on Jan. 18. The Texas GeneralContinue Reading
A reporter asked President Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney a question at a press conference at theContinue Reading
Thanks to research by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, we can now see the effects that President Trump’s proposedContinue Reading
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched a fair housing investigation after the CityContinue Reading
I recently I had the pleasure of providing comment at a public meeting around the Houston Housing Authority’s Fountain View project,Continue Reading
The public meeting on the Houston Housing Authority’s (HHA) proposal to build the Fountain View Apartments, a mixed-income apartment complex inContinue Reading
On February 25, the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle defended a proposed affordable housing development which has become the target of organizedContinue Reading
Note: A version of this post ran in the Gray Matters section of the Houston Chronicle on March 30. Our piece onContinue Reading
(Update: After receiving a great deal of feedback on this post – see the comment section below – we postedContinue Reading
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 twoContinue Reading
Atlantic writer Alana Semuels visited Texas earlier this month to report on fair housing issues. Semuels has extensively covered housing for the magazine,Continue Reading
The federal government will not support segregated housing in Beaumont, Texas. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)Continue Reading
This situation is simply so bizarre it speaks for itself. From today’s Houston Chronicle GALVESTON – Opponents of public housingContinue Reading
It appears that the rebuilding of the 569 public housing in Galveston demolished in the wake of Hurricane Ike may beContinue Reading
By Jerry Patterson The city of Galveston has a choice to make as we try to move forward with plansContinue Reading
A New York Times editorial laments the type of government neglect that public housing residents in Texas know all tooContinue Reading
The Houston Chronicle reports… Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday replaced the board chairman of the Harris County Housing Authority,Continue Reading
If the previous blog post was not a sufficient indictment of the outrageous spending by the Harris County Housing AuthorityContinue Reading
“Appalling. … One of the greater abuses of appointed office that I’ve seen,” Harris County Judge Ed Emmett told the Houston Chronicle. That does notContinue Reading
A single mother with two children in Texas is potentially eligible to receive $260 per month from Temporary Assistance forContinue Reading
I commented earlier on HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan‘s letter to public housing authorities asking them to reconsider their policies onContinue Reading
In an unusual joint letter to Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski, three top HUD leaders told Galveston to move forward to rebuildContinue Reading
There is an interesting and sobering story about rebuilding Galveston public housing that ran in today’s Houston Chronicle. The storyContinue Reading
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has just released the second issue of Tenant Talk, a newsletter for low incomeContinue Reading