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It worked! TDHCA Tax Credit Exchange Program gets apps for 883 ELI apartments
The 2009 Stimulus Bill (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) contained a provision allowing the limited exchange of tax…
Advocates offer recommendations to improve the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program is the program that produces, by far, the largest number of affordable housing…
Hooray! Today was a historic day of progress in Texas affordable housing
The Board of Directors of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs approved today a plan to use the…
$55,000 was the price for community support for affordable housing in Dallas
A document introduced into evidence today in the Dallas public corruption trial surrounding the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit…
A culture of greed tarnishes the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit program
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Texas is sometimes more about the developers making money building housing and…
Let’s take care to avoid developer windfalls in the new LIHTC program
I haven’t discussed it much yet, but there’s a lot to be said about the new Low Income Housing Tax…
Governor Perry’s failure to appoint a consumer board member proves costly
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) could not meet to conduct business yesterday because it could not…
Texas LIHTC corruption case should embarrass us into taking action
I don’t know who, if anyone, is guilty in the Dallas Low Income Housing Tax Credit public corruption case that…
Governor Perry vetos three affordable housing bills
Texas Governor Rick Perry has vetoed three affordable housing bills passed by the Texas Legislature. HB 3983 by Rep. Rodriguez…
Katrina Cottage pilot program woes due to failure at all levels
How many times do we have to hear the story before it sinks in? Let’s sum up the government response…
Roundup of housing related bill action affecting TDHCA by the Texas Legislature
I am finally getting around to compiling the list of all the bills that passed and those that did not…
The struggle begins to successfully design a TX Neighborhood Stabilization Program
I have previously expressed concerns about how the new Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) can be successfully implemented. I attended a…
Can Texas handle the increase in homeless and low-income weatherization funds?
All of the money coming to Texas from the economic stimulus bill is a great thing. But as the size…
Texas legislature focuses on unmet rural housing needs
It is no secret that rural housing needs have received far less attention than urban housing needs in Texas. A…
A failed housing program will always come back and bite the responsible entity
One had to feel sorry for Michael Gerber Thursday morning. Appearing before a subcommittee of the Texas House Appropriations Committee…
Texas will be forced to ration hurricane home repair grants
Texas should allocate the limited disaster funds so that they take care of the housing needs of Hurricane Ike/Dolly survivors…
Let’s resolve to win a serious housing trust fund for Texas
TxLIHIS is ringing in the New Year with a long list of resolutions – from ensuring that low-income hurricane survivors…
Put an end to FEMA trailers by moving people quickly into permanent housing
She says it far better than I can. We shot this interview with a woman whose home suffered major damage…
My suggestions for a Texas disaster housing program
In developing a plan to help Texas survivors of Hurricanes Ike and Dolly rebuild their homes I believe the starting…
Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears hurdle
The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has denied a motion by the Texas Department of Housing…
Existing statewide housing program should be the vehicle for assisting Hurricane Ike survivors
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) has received criticism from elected officials over the slow pace of…
Closer scrutiny will follow Texas expenditure of $1.3 billion in hurricane relief
HUD has allocated Texas $1.3 billion of the $2.1 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds that Congress has recently…
President Bush considers pardoning former Texas housing agency board member
ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, is reporting that President Bush is considering…
Seeking solutions to providing low-income housing in rural Texas
Hereford, a Texas Panhandle community of about 15,000, will host an important meeting today to consider how to overcome the…
Rough outlines of Texas $178m Neighborhood Stabilization Program emerge
In an attempt to deal with the foreclosure crisis Congress has allocated substantial funding to cities, counties and states to…
Brooke Boston, state housing deputy director, is stepping down
Brooke Boston, who has served as Deputy Director for Programs at the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs for…
State housing agency board acts fiscally responsibly on LIHTC awards
My compliments to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) board of directors who rejected pleas from low…
A critical moment in the housing tax credit program looms
On August 14 the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) hosted a “work group” to gather input on…
Something went terribly wrong at the Pleasant Village Apartments
“This is a terrible place to live, and I just don’t know how to get out.” – a resident of…