Texas Organizing Project Archives

City of Houston, [bc]Workshop, TOP deserve the national recognition for engaging community and consumers to design better homes

Congratulations to our friends and partners at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP [bc], Texas Organizing Project (TOP) and to the City of Houston Housing and…

For the past several months, residents of the Sunnyside neighborhood in south Houston have been developing a comprehensive plan to…

Above: TxLIHIS and Texas Organizing Project staff and community residents discuss neighborhood issues at a meeting of the Sunnyside Pride…

[The following are remarks I prepared for the keynote at the National Association of Collegiate Planners Conference in Houston, October 23,…

A committee of political leaders and citizens formed to address gentrification in San Antonio, the Mayor’s Task Force on Preserving…

On April 16, residents of low-income communities in Houston will host The People’s Fair Housing Forum. We’re proud to partner…

At this week’s meeting of the Houston City Council, several members of the Texas Organizing Project (TOP) delivered their message…

Each year the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service awards Texas individuals or organizations the Texas Houser Award. We recognize…

September 13, 2011, will mark the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Ike making landfall along the upper Texas coast. Residents of…

Last week we highlighted a town hall on Disaster Single Family Home Repair in Houston, hosted by the Texas Organizing…

On Saturday, May 21, 2011, Texas Organizing Project (TOP) along with other supporting organizations spearheaded a record attendance Town Hall…

This blog post is by Elizabeth Nowrouz. In late November, Melissa Cha and I traveled to Houston to gain a…