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Video: Texas Housers Houston co-director talks to New York Times about segregation
“It should not be the government’s role to dictate where people can and can’t live. People should always have a…
New York Times: Houston demonstrates how affordable housing programs perpetuate racial segregation
No politician has the right to tell families where to live – especially not because of their race or income. Doing…
Looking for a place to live without “bullets flying through the property”
A University of Texas law professor and community leaders recently spoke with tenants at an apartment complex in Sunnyside, a historically…
From the Houston Chronicle: Why Houston remains segregated
This piece ran in the Gray Matters section of the Houston Chronicle on February 16. Texas Housers Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay…
Report: Did Texas reduce government-funded segregation in tax credit housing?
In 2013, the State of Texas changed its scoring criteria for applications for Low Income Housing Tax Credits, in response to…
Sweeping federal investigation finds City of Houston’s housing segregation violates Civil Rights Act
Racial housing segregation in Houston is no accident. It is not voluntary on the part of Houstonians of color. It is…
Video: 10 ways to invest in the forgotten America and rebuild rural communities post-election
I gave this speech at the Housing Assistance Council Rural Housing Conference in Washington, D.C. on November 30. Watch the full…
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…
Spirit of East Austin forum invites neighbors to discuss development and inequality
On September 12, Austin residents and city leaders, including our co-director, John Henneberger, will gather to discuss the future of…
Watch our short documentary on housing and environmental injustice in Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi’s historic African-American neighborhoods of Hillcrest and Washington-Coles have endured decades of injustice: Redlining and housing segregation, industrial…
Why Corpus Christi’s Northside neighborhoods matter
I moved to Corpus Christi in 2009 to study Environmental Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Moving from El Paso, I…
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,…
Place matters: New research on income mobility for low income families
A landmark new study by The Equality of Opportunity Project, a research collaboration between Harvard University and the University of…
Heather Way: Affordable housing must be a priority for economically segregated Texas
This column by Heather Way is reprinted with her permission. Way is a clinical professor of law and directs the Entrepreneurship and Community…
Those who seek to limit Fair Housing law should be asked about Beaumont, Texas
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States takes up a case about housing discrimination in Dallas that has brought national…