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Tag: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

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

Dallas Morning News Editorial gets it partly right: Dallas needs to fix its housing policies

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 5, 2013

The HUD letter of findings of civil rights violations continues to reverberate in Dallas. In a strongly worded editorial today…

Tags: Dallas, Fair housing, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

“Its Westchester on steroids”: HUD finds Dallas in non-compliance with fair housing laws, seeks sweeping remedies

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted December 2, 2013

“Its Westchester on steroids,” is how one civil rights advocate characterized HUD’s findings against the City of Dallas, referring to…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Civil rights, Dallas, Fair housing, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Thanksgiving check-in on the homeless in Texas — maybe intractable social problems can be solved after all

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 28, 2013

It seems that Thanksgiving is one of the few times many people worry about the homeless. Let’s join the crowd…

Tags: Homelessness, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

New proposed HUD Fair Housing Rule released

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 18, 2013

  Today HUD posted it’s long awaited new rules regarding how local and state governments affirmatively further fair housing. These…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD closing Dallas and Lubbock field offices to cut costs

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 25, 2013

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Wednesday announced a series of restructuring and systemic changes within its Office…

Tags: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Texas can act now to prevent the next industrial disaster in Port Arthur and Texas City

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 21, 2013

Bill Minutaglio, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, the author of “City on Fire: The Explosion…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Environmental racism, Industrial disasters, Port Arthur, Texas City, Texas General Land Office, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, West

An important milestone for civil rights: HUD issues final fair housing “disparate impact rule”

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 9, 2013

Years in the making, HUD yesterday issued the final rule on proving “disparate impact” under the Fair Housing Act. The…

Tags: Fair Housing Act, HUD, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD Secretary Donovan discusses fair housing with state housing coalitions

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 16, 2012

At a meeting this week HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan discussed HUD’s approach to fair housing with leaders of state low-income…

Tags: Chrishelle Palay, Fair housing, HUD, Shaun Donovan, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

2nd installment of ProPublica Fair Housing investigation details Westchester, NY problems

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 5, 2012

The second article in a major investigative series titled “Living Apart: Fair Housing in America” about HUD’s enforcement of fair housing…

Tags: Fair housing, Fair Housing Act, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 29, 2012

Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica. Nikole Hannah-Jones of the news service Pro…

Tags: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Fair Housing Act, HUD, ProPublica, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD plays Grinch with its poorest tenants

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted February 17, 2012

A single mother with two children in Texas is potentially eligible to receive $260 per month from Temporary Assistance for…

Tags: Housing policy, HUD, public housing, Section 8 (housing), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Its not just what Fannie Mae did, its also about what it didn’t do

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 20, 2011

Let me first admit that I have not yet read the book but I plan to over the next several…

Tags: Affordable housing, Dallas, FannieMae, Fort Worth, Government-sponsored enterprise, Gretchen Morgenson, Mortgage loan, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
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