The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is directly threatening the very same low-income people that they are charged…
Tag: public housing
HUD and Texas scapegoat immigrants instead of improving affordable housing for all Texans
The Trump administration and Texas’ state leaders should be trying to fix the housing affordability crisis for low-income Texans, but…
Public Housing in San Antonio faces an uncertain future with leadership changes and disconnect with tenants
In late April, the housing authority operated by the city of San Antonio, known as Opportunity Home, issued notices to…
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 Texas…
Episode 20: A Look At RAD Conversion
In 2012, Congress authorized some public housing agencies to convert units from their original federally-funded public housing developments to project-based Section 8…
Déjà vu: Rebuilding public and subsidized housing damaged by the hurricane will have to wait
The state’s draft action plan for spending $57.8 million in federal disaster recovery funds was released on Jan. 18. The Texas General…
SAD FAKE NEWS: OMB Director vows “Nobody’s going to be kicked out of their houses”
A reporter asked President Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney a question at a press conference at the…
Estimates of housing voucher cuts for each Texas city under President’s budget
Thanks to research by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, we can now see the effects that President Trump’s proposed…
Video: Visualizing Houston’s housing segregation
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched a fair housing investigation after the City…
The importance of speaking up for fair housing
I recently I had the pleasure of providing comment at a public meeting around the Houston Housing Authority’s Fountain View project,…
Video: Anger over proposed public housing in high opportunity Houston neighborhood
The public meeting on the Houston Housing Authority’s (HHA) proposal to build the Fountain View Apartments, a mixed-income apartment complex in…
Houston Chronicle editorial supports Fountain View proposal and fair housing
On February 25, the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle defended a proposed affordable housing development which has become the target of organized…
Houstonians should be angry about public housing – because of segregation
Note: A version of this post ran in the Gray Matters section of the Houston Chronicle on March 30. Our piece on…
What’s behind the opposition to public housing in a high opportunity area in Houston?
(Update: After receiving a great deal of feedback on this post – see the comment section below – we posted…
Rebuilding public housing isn’t always so RAD
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…
The Atlantic investigates segregated housing in Beaumont
Atlantic writer Alana Semuels visited Texas earlier this month to report on fair housing issues. Semuels has extensively covered housing for the magazine,…
HUD denies Beaumont housing plan that perpetuates segregation
The federal government will not support segregated housing in Beaumont, Texas. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)…
Opponents of public housing in Galveston file lawsuit claiming rebuilding public housing would further segregation
This situation is simply so bizarre it speaks for itself. From today’s Houston Chronicle GALVESTON – Opponents of public housing…
Galveston agrees to steps to rebuild public housing
It appears that the rebuilding of the 569 public housing in Galveston demolished in the wake of Hurricane Ike may be…
State halts Galveston funding over failure to build public housing: TX Land Commissioner Patterson explains
By Jerry Patterson The city of Galveston has a choice to make as we try to move forward with plans…
Once again recovery from a hurricane bypasses the poor
A New York Times editorial laments the type of government neglect that public housing residents in Texas know all too…
Housing authority shake-up may be under way – Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle reports… Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday replaced the board chairman of the Harris County Housing Authority,…
The Harris County Housing Authority gets motivated to act like the top 1 percent
If the previous blog post was not a sufficient indictment of the outrageous spending by the Harris County Housing Authority…
Harris County Housing Authority’s excesses exposed by Houston Chronicle
“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…
HUD plays Grinch with its poorest tenants
A single mother with two children in Texas is potentially eligible to receive $260 per month from Temporary Assistance for…
HUD Secretary Donovan’s letter to PHAs about accepting ex-offenders
I commented earlier on HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan‘s letter to public housing authorities asking them to reconsider their policies on…
HUD pointedly directs Galveston to rebuild its public housing
In an unusual joint letter to Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski, three top HUD leaders told Galveston to move forward to rebuild…
Wait gets longer for public housing in Galveston | Houston Chronicle
There is an interesting and sobering story about rebuilding Galveston public housing that ran in today’s Houston Chronicle. The story…
NLIHC Newsletter for Renters, Residents and Tenants
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has just released the second issue of Tenant Talk, a newsletter for low income…