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Tag: segregation

Podcast Episode 16: The House of Cards America Built

A Little Louder, National issues•by •Posted September 13, 2019

When the U.S. government designed postwar housing policy and subsidized massive developments and suburbs, it created a strong middle class…

Tags: Fair housing, homeownership, Redlining, segregation

Video: Texas Housers Houston co-director talks to New York Times about segregation

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted July 6, 2017

“It should not be the government’s role to dictate where people can and can’t live. People should always have a…

Tags: Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, segregation

New York Times: Houston demonstrates how affordable housing programs perpetuate racial segregation

National issues•by •Posted July 3, 2017

No politician has the right to tell families where to live – especially not because of their race or income. Doing…

Tags: Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, LIHTC, segregation, Tax credits

Looking for a place to live without “bullets flying through the property”

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 22, 2017

A University of Texas law professor and community leaders recently spoke with tenants at an apartment complex in Sunnyside, a historically…

Tags: Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, LIHTC, segregation, source of income, Sunnyside, Texas Legislature

From the Houston Chronicle: Why Houston remains segregated

Uncategorized•by •Posted February 17, 2017

This piece ran in the Gray Matters section of the Houston Chronicle on February 16. Texas Housers Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay…

Tags: AFFH, Fair housing, Fountain View, Houston, HUD, segregation

Report: Did Texas reduce government-funded segregation in tax credit housing?

State issues•by •Posted January 25, 2017

In 2013, the State of Texas changed its scoring criteria for applications for Low Income Housing Tax Credits, in response to…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, LIHTC, segregation, Tax credits, TDHCA

Sweeping federal investigation finds City of Houston’s housing segregation violates Civil Rights Act

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 18, 2017

Racial housing segregation in Houston is no accident. It is not voluntary on the part of Houstonians of color. It is…

Tags: Civil rights, Fair Housing Act, Houston, HUD, segregation

Video: 10 ways to invest in the forgotten America and rebuild rural communities post-election

Uncategorized•by John Henneberger•Posted November 30, 2016

I gave this speech at the Housing Assistance Council Rural Housing Conference in Washington, D.C. on November 30. Watch the full…

Tags: Colonias, Fair housing, Rural housing, segregation

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

Spirit of East Austin forum invites neighbors to discuss development and inequality

Local issues•by •Posted September 3, 2015

On September 12, Austin residents and city leaders, including our co-director, John Henneberger, will gather to discuss the future of…

Tags: Austin, City of Austin, east austin, Gentrification, segregation

Watch our short documentary on housing and environmental injustice in Corpus Christi

Local issues•by •Posted August 10, 2015

  Corpus Christi’s historic African-American neighborhoods of Hillcrest and Washington-Coles have endured decades of injustice: Redlining and housing segregation, industrial…

Tags: Civil rights, Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Hillcrest, Northside, Redlining, segregation, Texas Department of Transportation

Why Corpus Christi’s Northside neighborhoods matter

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted August 3, 2015

I moved to Corpus Christi in 2009 to study Environmental Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Moving from El Paso, I…

Tags: Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Hillcrest, racial segregation, segregation

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

Place matters: New research on income mobility for low income families

Uncategorized•by •Posted May 11, 2015

A landmark new study by The Equality of Opportunity Project, a research collaboration between Harvard University and the University of…

Tags: Disparate impact, Fair housing, Housing vouchers, Income mobility, segregation

Heather Way: Affordable housing must be a priority for economically segregated Texas

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted April 8, 2015

This column by Heather Way is reprinted with her permission. Way is a clinical professor of law and directs the Entrepreneurship and Community…

Tags: Affordable housing, economic segregation, Guest column, segregation

Those who seek to limit Fair Housing law should be asked about Beaumont, Texas

Local issues, National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted January 20, 2015

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States takes up a case about housing discrimination in Dallas that has brought national…

Tags: Beaumont, Beaumont Housing Authority, east texas, Fair housing, Housing Discrimination, inclusive communities, segregation, supreme court, vidor
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