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Tag: Substandard apartments

Lawsuit by four Texas renters says State of Texas, HUD discriminate on race in Hurricane Harvey aid

Harvey Recovery•by John Henneberger•Posted October 14, 2019

Four South Texas renters filed a civil rights lawsuit last week in federal court alleging HUD and the State of…

Tags: Disaster housing rebuilding, Fair housing, GLO, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane rebuilding, Hurricane recovery, State Action Plan, Substandard apartments, Texas, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Tenants at Houston’s flooded, distressed Arbor Court Apartments sue HUD for intentional racial discrimination

Local issues•by •Posted July 19, 2018

(Photo above is of red tag, labeling Arbor Courts as a fire hazard) HUD Secretary Ben Carson declared that conditions…

Tags: Arbor Court, Fair housing, Flooding, Houston, Section 8, Substandard apartments

Sunnyside neighborhood leaders release report with UT Law clinic on dangerous apartment conditions

Local issues•by •Posted February 7, 2018

This week, community leaders of the Sunnyside neighborhood in Houston released a report that shines a light on some of…

Tags: Building codes, Code enforcement, Housing, Houston, Substandard apartments, Sunnyside

Failing Waco property facing closure

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted April 9, 2010

Back in 2008 we listed the eleven subsidized housing properties with the lowest physical inspection scores from HUD.  One of…

Tags: HUD, LIHTC, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Substandard apartments, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, waco

Update: HUD’s Public Inspection Scores

State issues•by •Posted February 9, 2010

Last week we pointed to HUD’s release of 2009 Physical Inspection Scores for subsidized properties. Eric Dexheimer at the Austin…

Tags: housing compliance, HUD, Substandard apartments

HUD fails 14 percent of Texas subsidized properties inspected in physical inspections

State issues•by •Posted January 25, 2010

Back in 2008 we presented data on physical inspection scores of subsidized housing in Texas.  HUD has updated this dataset…

Tags: housing compliance, HUD, Substandard apartments

Texas cities should place derelict apartments in receivership

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 14, 2008

Heather K. Way, director of the Community Development Law Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, read my…

Tags: Houston, Substandard apartments

Mayor White saves 1000 renters from eviction but fundamental low-income housing issues remain

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 9, 2008

Houston Mayor Bill White acted quickly and responsibly in preventing the owners of the 600 unit Houston La Casita apartment…

Tags: Houston, Substandard apartments

Analysis of HUD report on low scoring subsidized housing in Texas

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 12, 2008

A total of 107 or 9.4 percent of HUD assisted housing apartment developments in Texas earned a very low score…

Tags: housing compliance, HUD, Substandard apartments

Something went terribly wrong at the Pleasant Village Apartments

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 5, 2008

“This is a terrible place to live, and I just don’t know how to get out.” – a resident of…

Tags: Dallas, Housing policy, HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Substandard apartments, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Houston’s fair housing failure segregates Katrina evacuees in SW slum apartments

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 21, 2008

Today’s dangerous housing problems in the Southwestern part of Houston have been greatly exacerbated by the actions of Houston city…

Tags: Housing segregation, Houston, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina evacuees, Substandard apartments

Two proposed tools to get aggressive with slum landlords

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 20, 2008

For the past two days I have been exploring in this blog ways to deal with the massive problem of…

Tags: Houston, Substandard apartments

Houston Mayor Bill White tells Houstonians not to worry about substandard apartments

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 19, 2008

I was proud to present Houston Mayor Bill White an award in 2007 on behalf of the National Low Income…

Tags: Houston, Substandard apartments

It is too late for two children but now is the time for Houston to act on slum apartments

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 18, 2008

It happened again last night. More kids were hurt, this time killed, in the slum apartments the city of Houston…

Tags: Houston, Substandard apartments, Substandard housing

Disgraceful indifference to substandard conditions in Houston

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 17, 2008

In an outstanding piece of investigative journalism Houston Chronicle staff writers Matt Stiles, Mike Snyder and Julio Cortez have exposed…

Tags: Housing codes, Substandard apartments, Substandard housing
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