The economic hardships spurred by the pandemic revealed the harmful impacts of evictions to the wider public. While many individuals…
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A Little Louder Episode 67: Replacement Reserves restore aging properties. But where are they actually going?
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program (LIHTC) is the largest creator of affordable housing in our state. As these tax…
Texas Comptroller suggests passing State funding for Low-Income Housing. He’s right.
Last week, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced the release of a new report from his agency titled The Housing Affordability…
New report: TDHCA must improve replacement reserves policies to help ensure safe and decent conditions at older tax credit properties
This week, the University of Texas School of Law’s Housing Policy Clinic released an important new housing report, Best Practices…
A Little Louder Episode 63: How we would fix ‘A.I.’, meaning the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing
Only twice in a decade, Texas reviews its status on fair housing. State officials evaluate how they are affirmatively furthering…
When TDHCA addresses NIMBYism this year, they must focus on solutions that directly benefit low-income people
Every five years, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) must update their Analysis of Impediments to Fair…
A Little Louder Buzz Session #6: Breaking Down The QAP in 2023
As the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) ramps up its process to update the rules and scoring…
Read Texas Housers’ new report ‘How to Make the 2023 Tax Credit Housing QAP Work Better for Low-Income Tenants’
Texas Housers is pleased to announce the release of “How to Make the 2023 Tax Credit Housing QAP Work Better…
Proposed Qualified Allocation Plan assisting households with incomes above HTC limits raises serious concerns
Each year, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) updates the set of rules that guide the Low…
Texas Housers calls on State of Texas to dismantle racial residential exclusion through the housing tax credit program
Texas Housers believes the locational decisions the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) adopts for selecting sites for…
In vote to weaken incentives, TDHCA hurts chances for affordable housing in desirable areas
Earlier this month, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs voted to change the rules for where low-income housing…
Podcast Episode 30: Who is this housing for and where does it go?
Every year, Texas receives millions of dollars in tax credits to help developers build affordable housing. It’s big money and…
Fort Worth wants affordable housing and could have it, if the city strongly rejects NIMBY pitfalls
In late June 2020, Fort Worth City Council voted against a zoning change that would have likely secured tax credit…
Texas Housers calls on governor to provide bold leadership to help Texans keep their homes amid health crisis
Gov. Greg Abbott announced yesterday that he and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs have taken initial action…
Texas is below average nationwide in required affordability for LIHTC properties. TDHCA is charging to change that.
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is the largest source of funding for affordable multifamily property development and…
Podcast episode 11: The roundabout way we subsidize affordable housing
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program is helping to produce most of the new affordable housing in our country.…
Texas Housers calls on TDHCA board to follow rules that promote housing opportunity for low-income people
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs board on several recent occasions has overruled staff recommendations and waived rules…
Texas House bills add hurdles to affordable housing in affluent neighborhoods
We cover committee hearings and votes on key bills related to housing at the Texas Legislature, which concludes its 2017 session…
2017 state tax credit applications show slight shift away from higher-income areas
Recent changes to the way Texas scores applications for housing tax credits appear to have had a slight but notable…
Video: Examining how Texas reduced government-funded housing segregation
Did a fair housing suit actually cause the State of Texas to reduce racial segregation? That’s the question our recent…
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…
Texas Senate committee report addresses key fair housing issues
The Intergovernmental Relations Committee (IGR) is one of the most influential in the Texas Senate, dealing with the administration of…
IRS indicates fair housing issues with Texas political influence on tax credits
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued a bulletin that reprimands a thinly-veiled “Agency” in “State X” for its reliance on local support…
TDHCA details consequences of potential state budget cuts
The Texas Legislature opens next month under specific instructions to use a 4 percent reduction in general revenue as the starting point in…
A focus on community revitalization at first 2016 state housing tax credit plan roundtable
Community revitalization, as a concept, is fairly straightforward. But how does it actually happen, and how can its progress be…
Two ways to improve Texas’ housing tax credit allocation plan
We recently filed comments (jointly with Texas Appleseed) on the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs‘ (TDCHA) “Qualified Allocation…
2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit Report: Flawed system leads to undesirable locations for affordable developments
This week Texas Housers will release the 2015 Texas Housing Tax Credit report, an analysis of the state’s competitive process to award…
An important look at the context behind Supreme Court case on Texas housing segregation
This week’s cover story in the Fort Worth Weekly illustrates exactly why the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive…
Dallas Morning News editorial: High court must not perpetuate segregation
In a strongly worded editorial the Dallas Morning News has called on the US Supreme Court to reject the State…
A Texas houser’s thoughts on the State of Texas’ appeal of the Dallas fair housing case to the Supreme Court
As a whole, Texas has made some real progress toward equal opportunity and fair housing in the forty-six years since…