- System Benefit Fund deal in the works: better than nothing until it becomes nothing
- Bo’s Clips: Suburban Poverty Grows
- NLIHC Highlights Nacogdoches Tenant Association
- Senate Passes TDHCA Sunset
- Bo’s Clips: Homeownership and Labor Mobility
- TDHCA Sunset Heads to Senate
- Bo’s Clips: Continuing mortgage servicing abuses
- Rare Floor Fight on Model Subdivision Rules Bill
- Bo’s Clips: Minorities Pay More for Homes
- Riddle amendment to TDHCA Sunset bill is ill-conceived and discriminatory
- TX House gives each state representative power to choose or veto housing tax credit developments
- House Amends TDHCA Sunset Bill
- Westchester NY county executive agrees to source of income protection under fair housing settlement – ProPublica
- HUD closing Dallas and Lubbock field offices to cut costs
- The facts about Texas weatherization spending contradict Senate Finance chairman’s claim
- Galveston agrees to steps to rebuild public housing
- Bo’s Clips: Wall Street Betting on Single Family
- Texas Senate robs from the poor, gives away the money available for low-income utility assistance
- We’re proud to be a Texas partner of the National Low Income Housing Coalition
- Texas can act now to prevent the next industrial disaster in Port Arthur and Texas City
- Hurricane Ike survivors testify at House Ways and Means
- Will Texas learn a lesson from the tragedy at West?
- CFED: Manufactured Homes in South Texas
- Bo’s Clips: Houston Looks for Work Force Housing
- State halts Galveston funding over failure to build public housing: TX Land Commissioner Patterson explains
- Fair Housing Act is 45 years old today. LBJ: “We have come some of the way, not near all of it. There is much yet to do.”
- Bo’s Clips: Texas Lemon Law for Homes Focuses on Veterans
- Franklin the Fair Housing Fox… seriously?
- Lawmakers consider refunding money intended to help poor – Houston Chronicle
- TX Senate Finance Committee takes back money intended to help poor people pay for electricity
- The Tale of Two Sequesters
- Fort Bend County is nation’s most ethnically diverse county in US – Houston Chronicle
- Bo’s Clips: Dallas Council Member Blames Plano for Dallas Homeless
- Chrishelle Palay helps Houston’s poor and needy plead their cause
- TxLIHIS policy analyst Josué Ramírez supports colonia residents’ search for solutions
- Homer the homeless goose and Blackland neighborhood – an oral history tribute
- Poor and rich are increasingly isolated in Houston – map by Houston Chronicle
- Map of the Day: Housing Units Lacking Complete Plumbing
- Bo’s Clips: Mortgage Credit Easing
- NLIHC: Americans Support Mortgage Interest Deduction Reform
- Bo’s News Clips: Speculators Sweep Available Rentals
- 545,405 – Texas’ shortage of rental units affordable to the poor
- The Blogosphere Discusses Segregation in Austin
- Bo’s News Clips: Ft Worth Voids Housing Vouchers
- HUD Texas Sequester Letter
- Bo’s News Clips: Not Enough Available Rental Housing
- NLIHC: Shortage of Affordable Housing for Low Income Renters in Texas
- Bo’s News Clips: Austin Density Bonus Dispute
- New Report on Inclusionary Housing & Fees-in-Lieu
- Policy Suggestions from the Park Girl Rip-off
- Bo’s News Clips: Ratings Agency Overhaul Stalled
- An important milestone for civil rights: HUD issues final fair housing “disparate impact rule”
- Rep. Anchia Files Bill Removing Legislative Letters from Housing Tax Credit Scoring
- Bo’s News Clips: DOJ sues S&P
- National Mortgage Settlement–Purpose Yet Unfulfilled
- Bo’s News Clips: Foreclosures are unfinished business
- Bo’s News Clips: Housing for West Texas Shale Workers
- NYTimes Endorses Funding National Housing Trust Fund
- Bo’s News Clips: Fannie Mae Deal Criticized
- Bo’s News Clips: Foreclosure Settlement
- Ruby Roa, the American-Statesman’s Volunteer of the Year
- NYTimes on housing tax credits gets it right on funding, targeting poor, wrong on promoting segregation
- Bo’s news clips: More affordable housing for Austin’s Mueller community
- Bo’s news clips: Austin looks for new ways to pay for low-income housing
- Job announcement: Rio Grande Valley based housing policy analyst – planner – advocate – community outreach specialist
- Job announcement: Galveston based housing policy analyst – planner – advocate – community outreach specialist
- Bo’s news clips: S TX housing shortage caused by the area’s oil and gas boom
- The Affordable Housing Crisis – NYTimes.com
- Bo’s news clips: “tiny people, building their tiny houses.”
- Bo’s housing clips: Improvements in national housing economy
- Notice at apartment complex targets young blacks – Houston Chronicle
- Aunt Bertha points people to help
- Bo’s housing clips: Media focus remains on housing finance
- HUD Secretary Donovan discusses fair housing with state housing coalitions
- Bo’s housing clips: “The ones that do have cars are talking about sleeping in their cars.”
- Map shows precinct results for Austin housing bond defeat
- Post election soul searching yields important insights but seldom change
- Once again recovery from a hurricane bypasses the poor
- $78M Austin housing bond issue narrowly defeated; Houston passes $15M in housing bonds
- Houston voters decide on housing bonds today
- Houser Awards to be presented to five Texas housing leaders tomorrow
- Housing bonds before Austin voters today
- Bo’s housing clips: Austin police get tough on homeless; Arlington votes to waive taxes for expensive apartments
- 2nd installment of ProPublica Fair Housing investigation details Westchester, NY problems
- Texas Housers Awards coming November 7
- Bo’s housing news clips: Banks sued, offer refunds
- Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law – ProPublica
- Bo’s housing news clips: Stunning fall in family net worth
- HUD Secretary Donovan discusses tension between place-based and mobility in housing
- Bo’s housing news clips: Low mortgage rates does not mean more own homes
- Bo’s housing news clips: causes and social repercussions of housing segregation
- Bo McCarver’s housing news clips for May
- Mitt Romney at private fundraiser: I might eliminate HUD – The Washington Post
- Bo’s housing news clips: Study finds zoning segregates lower-income students in lower-scoring schools.
- Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months
- Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas – NYTimes.com
- Bo’s housing news clips: National home foreclosures and Galveston housing woes are top stories in recent weeks
- Labor Secretary hosts ceremony honoring Cesar Chavez while slashing funds for housing farmworkers
- Bo’s housing news clips: Cost of living in Austin is ‘Out of Reach’ for most renters
- Falkenberg: Learning a lot from the Rankin debacle – Houston Chronicle
- Coalition of conservative activists’ calls for consolidation of TDHCA and TSAHC
- Court rules Texas Housing Tax Credit program violates Fair Housing Act
- Bo’s housing clips: Battered by crisis, poor still find paths to home ownership
- Brian Potashnik to restart work outside TX new court filing says | dallasnews.com Crime Blog
- Austin American-Statesman: State should ask HNTB for a refund
- Out of Reach: The Housing Wage in Context
- State report: 29% of TX first round HUD disaster funds drawn down, 0% 2nd round
- Latest data shows TX minimum wage earners can’t afford half the rent on a typical apartment
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-13-2012
- ‘Homeless hotspots’ at South X Southwest stir controversy
- Candidate for most outrageous quote of 2012: HNTB says Texas disaster recovery program is “on target and on budget”
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-6-2012
- Federal Audit Questions $8 Million Paid to HNTB — General Land Office | The Texas Tribune
- Amid Finger-Pointing, Hurricane Relief for Texans Lags – NYTimes.com
- The Poverty of an Idea – NYTimes.com
- Housing authority shake-up may be under way – Houston Chronicle
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-28-2012
- The Harris County Housing Authority gets motivated to act like the top 1 percent
- Harris County Housing Authority’s excesses exposed by Houston Chronicle
- The ‘Whitest town in North Texas’ fights to keep it that way
- More Texas kids live in concentrated poverty than in any other state
- New Texas state housing agency director discusses reorganization, relying on fewer, larger contractors
- HUD boss Shaun Donovan jumps into President Obama mortgage melee – POLITICO.com
- NYT picks up on public housing rent increase issue
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-21-2012
- $141M in Texas foreclosure settlement funds should be used to prevent more foreclosures
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-14-2012
- HUD plays Grinch with its poorest tenants
- In Texas state government the tail wags the dog in affordable housing policy
- The Texas affordable housing problem made simple
- New study shows 3 in 4 poor Texas families spend more than half of income for rent
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-7-2012
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-14-2012
- Hurricane Ike and Dolly home reconstruction drags on at unacceptable rates
- HUD rejects City of Houston fair housing effort
- President Obama proposes $1B for National Housing Trust Fund
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-31-2012
- Department of Justice sues local government for multifamily housing ban
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-24-2012
- Dallas fumbles in the absence of a housing policy
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-17-2012
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-10-2012
- DMN editorial says paper will push housing in 2012
- Loren Berlin, former TxLIHIS staffer, named housing reporter at Huffington Post
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-3-2012
- Housing News Clips – December 2011
- Housing News Clips – November 2011
- Housing News Clips – October 2011
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 9-20-2011
- Couple lives in tent waiting for Ike-damaged home’s repair | khou.com Houston
- Fewer than 500 Texas homes repaired in three years since Hurricane Ike
- On 3rd anniversary 200 tell Houston City Council reforms are needed in Hurricane Ike recovery program
- Protesters say city slow to repair Ike-damaged houses – Houston Chronicle
- Senior’s city-built home lacked insulation – Houston Chronicle
- Three Years After Ike, Many Still Await Assistance | Public News Service
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 9-13-2011
- September 13, 2011 is the three year anniversary of Hurricane Ike
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 8-30-2011
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 8-23-2011
- “Noodlng” and the resignation of Mike Gerber
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 8-16-2011
- Houston experiences largest growth of poor population in American metros
- Housing coalition responds to House committee vote to repeal National Housing Trust Fund
- Texas border building codes: a mostly meaningless and bizarre law
- When the overwhelming majority of good people don’t confront prejudice, an entire community suffers
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 8-2-2011
- The budget cap deal means the opportunity to address poverty is slipping away
- Recession and falling housing values dramatically widening wealth gap between whites, Hispanics and blacks
- Mississippi auctions remaining Katrina cottages | Gulfport – SunHerald.com
- Colonia improvements still leave the poor in deplorable housing
- Thousands still recovering from Hurricane Ike | abc13.com
- 50,000 protest soaring housing prices in Tel Aviv | CNN
- It’s finally time to get rid of those post-Ike blue tarps | Houston Chronicle
- Colonia Resident Worried About Tropical Storm Don
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 7-26-2011
- HUD withholds county’s federal funds over fair housing plan
- Why are mortgage closing costs in Texas the second highest in the US?
- HUD’s Ron Sims discusses something Austin officials will not — homeownership and race
- Dallas pregnant woman reportedly trampled, others injured in rush for housing vouchers
- HUD Secretary Donovan’s letter to PHAs about accepting ex-offenders
- HUD: Ex-inmates need help to stay off streets in Houston | Houston Chronicle
- Preview of new HUD GIS mapping tool shows promise and potential
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 7-19-2011
- Austin case study: Postdisaster housing policy and low-income survivors
- What kind of city do we want Austin to be? | Paup in Austin American-Statesman
- USDA offers lame excuses while slashing housing funds for the rural poor
- Where Texas border housing and community development issues stand after the legislative session
- Listening to Congress debate housing is a sobering experience
- HUD pointedly directs Galveston to rebuild its public housing
- US House Subcommittee Votes to Eliminate Housing Trust Fund — Rooflines
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 7-12-2011
- TX Tribune story may lead to a misdiagnosis of colonia conditions and health problems
- CNN says, “Impoverished border town grows from shacks into community” – not exactly
- What really impedes progress in Texas colonias?
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 7-5-2011
- A “new sheriff” takes over Texas disaster recovery
- Great new research tool: ESRI’s Community Analyst mapping site
- Wait gets longer for public housing in Galveston | Houston Chronicle
- Effect of Elected Official Letters on the 2011 LIHTC Round
- Poll: Most think government should help homeowners in trouble
- Opportunity to tame public corruption lost in veto of TDHCA Sunset bill
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 6-28-2011
- Conference committee strikes anti-NIMBY provisions from TDHCA legislation, continues agency 2 years
- Texas colonia self-help centers reauthorized by Texas Legislature
- Doggett on Foreclosures-“Well, the market didn’t really work, did it?”
- The racism of New Berlin is growing in Galveston
- Feds Sue Wisconsin town for NIMBY Opposition to LIHTC Development
- DOJ to Intevene in Texas Developmental Disability Segregation Case
- I woke last night to the sound of thunder
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 6-21-2011
- Report: Texas Efficiency Rent 90% of SSI Payments
- Governor Perry switches agencies responsible for disaster recovery funds
- Short term 2 year extension in works for Texas housing department
- Its not just what Fannie Mae did, its also about what it didn’t do
- Analysis: Governor Perry’s veto of Texas Department of Housing
- Governor Vetos Tenants Rights Bill, Austin Homestead Preservation District Bill
- Governor Vetoes TDHCA Sunset Bill
- Housing Tidbits and Round-up
- NLIHC Newsletter for Renters, Residents and Tenants
- State Rep Riddle says she wants no low-income housing in her district
- NLIHC: Out of Reach 2011 report updated
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 6-14-2011
- Galveston housing authority director resigns
- Excuse the inconvenience, we are merging our blog and website
- Sadly, how far we have strayed from this great moral course
- Low-income Americans will need to work into their eighties
- Learn how to resolve a dispute with your landlord
- Find subsidized housing with our custom search tool – Texas Housing Counselor
- Problems Found with Accessibility Modifications to Smith County Manufactured Home
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 6-7-2011
- Congressional Hearings on HOME program
- Video of Houston Disaster Recovery Town Hall
- Section 8 Waitlists In Texas
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 5-31-2011
- TDHCA Sunset bill passes House and Senate
- San Antonio Haven for Hope homeless facility receives HUD design award
- Hurricane Disaster Spending–an opportunity to repair homes *and* create jobs in affected communities
- Houston Town Hall on Disaster Single Family Home Repair
- 60 minutes on Texas Farmworkers
- Houston SRO Development wins Urban Land Institute Award
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 5-24-2011
- Chronicle on Houston Disaster Recovery Repair
- Thoughts on the Washington Post Investigation of the HOME Program
- TDHCA releases map of total affordable rental units by county
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 5-17-2011
- Washington Post Focuses on Beaumont Housing Failure
- HUD Approves Phase I of Texas Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing
- Update:2011 Tornado Season
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 5-10-2011
- John Henneberger Testimony at TDHCA Board Meeting on Disaster Recovery Housing Programs
- Valley Tops List of Housing Cost Growth
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 5-3-2011
- Audit Report Roundup–Weatherization Program, TCAP, NSP
- Many of These Are Preventable Deaths
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 4-26-2011
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 4-18-2011
- TDHCA Executive Director Michael Gerber Stepping Down
- First Time Homebuyer Programs at TDHCA and TSAHC
- Texas NSP Program Audit
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 4-12-2011
- John Henneberger Testimony at Urban Affairs on TDHCA Sunset
- Increasing Minimum Entry Door Width in Manufactured Housing
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 4-8-2011
- Dallas Housing Vouchers – Extreme Need and Error
- It’s NIMBY Time…Again
- TDHCA Sunset Bill up in House Urban Affairs Wed
- Weekend Budget Fun
- House Budget Amendments Affect TDHCA Programs
- NYT: Time Runs Out for St. Bernard Parish
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 3-29-2011
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 3-22-2011
- Checking in on the Weatherization Assistance Program
- Governor Announces New TDHCA, TSAHC Board Members
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 3-15-2011
- Manufactured homes, mobile homes, and trailers, oh my!
- John Henneberger Testimony at Senate Finance on TDHCA Budget
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 3-8-2011
- Subsidized Housing In Texas Often Fails to Provide Outreach to the Persons with Disabilities
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 3-1-2011
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 2-22-2011
- 502 Rural Housing Program Proposed for Decimation
- House Appropriations Axes Homeless Funds and Majority of Housing Trust Fund
- Study of State’s Use of LIHTC Boost
- Observer Article on Disaster Recovery
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 2-15-2011
- John Henneberger Testimony at TDHCA Appropriations Hearing
- U. S. House FY11 Budget Bill Slashes and Burns Federal Housing Safety Net
- Blog Logistics
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 2-8-2011
- Housing: The Newest Utility?
- HUD’s Worst Case Housing Needs Report for 2009
- WAP Update
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 2-1-2011
- Two Reports from the HUD OIG on Texas Entities
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 1-25-2011
- Black-White Segregation in Small and Mid-sized Texas Cities
- LBB Proposal Released for TDHCA Budget
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 1-18-2011
- ACS Segregation Data II
- The state of Black-White Segregation in Texas
- Reasonable Accommodation Enforcement Action in the News
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 1-11-2010
- Introduction to an “Analysis of Impediments”
- Emergency Homeowners Loan Program (EHLP) in Texas
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 1-4-2010
- Central Texas Hero, Walter Moreau
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 12-28-2010
- Houston TOP Bus Tour
- Recap of Sunset Commission Recommendations for TDHCA
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 12-21-2010
- Meet Elizabeth, the Texas Tenant Advisor, and the Texas Housing Counselor
- Housing Credit Update
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 12/14/2010
- Study: Leading Subsidized Housing Program in Texas Limits Economic Opportunity of the Poor
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 11-30-2010 & 12-07-2010
- Join us for the 2010 Texas (Fair) Housing Awards
- TxLIHIS Files Comments on Sunset Staff Report on TSAHC
- A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 11-24-2010
- Big Improvements in the 502 Direct Program in Texas
- Sunset Followup
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 11-16-2010
- Recap of TDHCA’s QAP Adoption
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 11-10-2010
- Improving Manufactured Homes, One Tabled Proposal at a Time.
- TxLIHIS Comments on Proposed 2011 QAP
- NIMBYism in Real Time
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 10-19-2010
- “Neighborhood” letters and Tax Credit Properties
- What Am I, Chopped Liver?
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation, 10-5-2010 & 9-28-10
- TxLIHIS Files Comments on Sunset Staff Report on TDHCA
- Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears (another) hurdle
- Two Documents From The Feds This Week
- Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation, 9-1 through 9-21-2010
- Sunset Staff TDHCA Report Released
- More NSP News
- They went the distance
- NSP1-A Deadline Looms
- AG rules that location of weatherization assistance program activities is secret
- HUD “First Look” program asks buyers to overlook PTAF
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation -7/20/2010
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 7/13/2010
- Texas Prioritizes Sewers and Financial Assistance to For-Profit Businesses over Low Income Housing in CDBG program
- Rich are defaulting on mortgages at a higher rate
- City of Houston weatherization jobs have not been in low-income communities
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 7/6/2010
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/22/2010
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/15/2010
- Habitat for Humanity now 8th largest US homebuilder
- Current FEMA disaster recovery policy will leave low-income hurricane survivors unassisted
- Texans prepare for another hurricane in their unique way
- Texas failing to spend federal funds for foreclosure-impacted communities
- USDA Rural Housing Service in Texas: Progress and Potential
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/8/2010
- 74% of those with “worst case housing need” have extremely low incomes according to HUD report
- New York Times praises State of Texas/TxLIHIS disaster recovery settlement
- Don’t bypass low income homeowners in weatherization program
- Margaret Shaw removed as Austin housing director
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 6/1/2010
- Seriously?
- Administration proposes changes to Neighborhood Stabilization Program, including additional funding
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/25/2010
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation -5/18/2010
- Statement on our Fair Housing settlement with the State of Texas
- The TxLIHIS / TX Appleseed / State of Texas fair housing settlement agreement
- HUD announces approval of TxLIHIS – Texas Appleseed – State of Texas Fair Housing settlement on hurricane recovery
- Mississippi moves to 100% inspections of mobile home installations; so should Texas
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/11/2010
- Review shows some progress in border housing since 1997
- Texas Lags in serving the housing needs of SSI recipients
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 5/4/2010
- If Not In Your Backyard, Then Where?
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/27/2010
- Texas State Representative sentenced to prison in housing tax credit bribery case
- Reducing tornado deaths in mobile homes
- TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #7: 3 in 1 on manufactured housing
- TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #6: Give the Manufactured Housing Division Its own Sunset clause and review
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/20/2010
- TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #5: Clarify regional allocation formula statute
- TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #4: Diversify board composition
- TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #3: Webcast all TDHCA board meetings
- TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #2: Create a program category for Texans earning between 0 and 110% of SSI.
- TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #1: focus board on policy
- Charting the future of the TX Department of Housing and Community Affairs
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/13/2010
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 4/6/2010
- Houston Chronicle profiles Texas Grow Homes
- Failing Waco property facing closure
- Recovery Act recipients should report on creation of “local jobs”
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 3-30-2010
- Texas Weatherization program: need to improve spending, job creation, housing repairs
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation 3-23-2010
- Transforming rental assistance through the HUD budget
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 3/16/2010
- More good news in restoring rural affordable home loan availability
- Texas groups act to prevent the loss of millions in affordable home loans for the poor
- Don’t Allow Lenders to Ignore the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act in the Neighborhood Stabilization Program
- Buffett wants to tilt the market towards manufactured housing
- Only a houser would care about the exciting world of low income housing property tax law
- TCAP: Let the Spending Begin
- Slow start to weatherization programs: Not just Texas
- Bo McCarver’s weekly news compilation – 2/23/2010
- You have to know someone to live here – disguised discrimination
- Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation – 2/16/2010
- Bo McCarver’s Weekley Housing News Compilation – 2/9/2010
- Dallas Tax Credit Corruption Case Continues
- Bo McCarver’s Weekly News Compilation – 2/2/2010
- Update: HUD’s Public Inspection Scores
- HUD 2011 Budget: Shifts in Emphasis
- Bo McCarver’s Weekly Housing News Compilation – 1/27/2010
- HUD fails 14 percent of Texas subsidized properties inspected in physical inspections
- A conversation series dedicated to developing a disaster housing reconstruction program for low income homeowners
- Another epic, preventable disaster strikes the poor
- HUD OIG subpoenas three Texas lenders
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/12/2010
- Houston Chronicle reports hurricane rebuilding fund diversion
- The Texas plan directs rebuilding money away from those in need
- HUD pushes Governor to redirect hurricane rebuilding funds to hurricane impacted counties
- City of Austin runs online survey on housing need
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/5/2010
- Weatherization–a slow start for Texas may not be all bad news
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/15/2009
- USDA Rural Development housing programs would be improved through more open government
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/8/2009
- Department of Energy IG: Recovery Act “has strained existing resources” at the Department
- Bankless America
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/1/2009
- Disaster rebuilding, celebrity style, solution or problem?
- First homes complete, Texas Grow Home Project website launched
- 10 percent of Texans are behind in their home loan payments
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/24/2009
- What the State of Texas must do to fix the Hurricane rebuilding plan (and what we plan to do to make sure it does)
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/17/2009
- HUD denies Governor Perry’s Amended Recovery Plan
- Texas Grow Home dedications this Friday in Port Arthur
- HUD Rejects State of Texas CDBG Disaster Recovery Plan
- TDHCA: Trying to make the best of a bad LIHTC thing
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/10/2009
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/3/2009
- The Evolution of Housing Discrimination
- Recovery Act Reporting Milestone
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/27/2009
- An Austin designer’s interesting approach to post-disaster shelter
- Are Some Inclusionary Zoning Ordinances Promoting Racial Segregation?
- 3 important policy questions for expanded $327m Texas Weatherization Assistance Program
- “To feel useful in this old world”
- The real poverty rate in US is much higher
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/20/2009
- Bo McCarver’s Weekly Housing News Compilation – 10/13/2009
- Housing Tax Credit Assistance Program: A second bite at the apple?
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/6/2009
- Will corruption convictions bring reform to housing programs?
- Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem and others guilty in housing tax credit case
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/28/2009
- HUD should reject the State of Texas plan to misspend $3 billion in CDBG disaster recovery funds
- To protect lenders task force censuring advice given to Texas homeowners facing foreclosure
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/22/2009
- New TxLIHIS initiative seeks improvements in housing tax credit program
- Latest data shows 3.8 million Texans live in poverty
- Governor orders $1.3B Hurricane recovery plan changed but fails to fix the problem
- Bo McCarver’s Weekly Housing Compilation – 9/15/2009
- Texans in key posts at USDA hopefully means housing restored to a TX office priority
- People of color not enjoying economic recovery
- How much housing money is needed for Ike/Dolly rebuilding?
- Questions about nonprofit emerges in housing tax credit corruption trial
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/8/2009
- Overview of the Tax Credit Exchange Program in Texas
- Overview of the Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) in Texas
- It worked! TDHCA Tax Credit Exchange Program gets apps for 883 ELI apartments
- Testimony describes absurdity of Texas hurricane disaster fund allocation plan
- Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey on the politics of hurricane rebuilding
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/1/2009
- Texas gets 3,111 Section 8 vouchers for hurricane survivors
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/25/2009
- Ten principles should guide state administration of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program
- Dallas Housing Authority misfires in war on crime
- Bo McCarver’s housing news compilation – 8/18/2009
- ORCA’s public hearing for $1.7 billion disaster relief program crashes
- Who is to blame in the Dallas tax credit corruption scandal?
- When the price of community support got too high, housing tax credit developer turned to FBI
- Government witness in Dallas corruption trial testifies he paid for community support for tax credit deal
- Bo McCarver’s housing news compilation — 8/11/2009
- Federal court orders FEMA to reconsider denial of home repairs to Hurricane Dolly survivors
- Landmark housing desegregation lawsuit settled — Texas cities next?
- Governor Perry’s disaster rebuilding plan is the latest disaster to strike Texas
- Advocates offer recommendations to improve the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/4/2009
- Hooray! Today was a historic day of progress in Texas affordable housing
- $55,000 was the price for community support for affordable housing in Dallas
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/28/2009
- Black children pay a high price for living in poverty neighborhoods
- Tax credit apartments for extremely low income families focus in Dallas public corruption trial
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/21/2009
- Government housing programs can and do help the poorest families in Texas
- FBI recordings show tax credit developer and indicted local officials discussed redirecting housing bonds away from the poor
- A culture of greed tarnishes the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit program
- The case for a new category of housing need — below poverty income
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/14/2009
- Let’s take care to avoid developer windfalls in the new LIHTC program
- It is not a proposal to build a toxic waste dump for Pete’s sake!
- Photos and costs of FEMA’s temporary housing units released
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/7/2009
- Final recap of all housing related bills we followed in the Texas Legislature
- An interesting new, on-line look at Texas poverty
- Article explores causes of American Housing Foundation collapse
- Fighting bigotry and poverty, perfecting government is a mandate of the Declaration of Independence
- TX State Affordable Housing Corporation granted a reprieve
- Why was the leader of a failed Texas housing nonprofit a major political contributor to Texas officials?
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 6/30/2009
- Governor Perry’s failure to appoint a consumer board member proves costly
- Brownsville CDC director discusses recent changes in border low-income housing and colonias
- Texans worried about their economic condition, housing concerns high on list
- Doggett/Henneberger diavolg on consumer protection legislation for mortgage borrowers in the Texas Legislature
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 6/23/2009
- What would Daniel Boone do? The dilemma of imposing state regulations to improve housing in Texas colonias
- Fort Worth housing fund crisis shows need for more public oversight
- Texas LIHTC corruption case should embarrass us into taking action
- Texas colonia problems need to be put back on the front burner
- I want to believe the President’s financial consumer protection plan will work, but it won’t
- An in-depth look: financial reform called for a major overhaul but did not get one
- Governor Perry vetos three affordable housing bills
- Judge Sotomayor said to have been a strong low income housing advocate
- Addressing low-income families’ housing aspirations is essential to financial reform
- The Nouveau Poor foreclosure crisis slights the poor
- Getting closer to finding out why so many Texas hurricane survivors were denied housing assistance
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 6/16/2009
- An encouraging sign of understanding by new FEMA administrator
- Katrina Cottage pilot program woes due to failure at all levels
- Roundup of housing related bill action affecting TDHCA by the Texas Legislature
- TX Legislature seeks better homes, faster repairs for hurricane survivors
- Galveston Long Term Recovery Plan should focus on what it takes to allow survivors to return home
- Rental housing most vulnerable in Hurricane Ike shortchanged in reconstruction plan
- The “Ike Dike” is no excuse for diverting money from rebuilding homes
- Texas to receive an additional $1.7 billion for hurricane rebuilding
- How Ike and future hurricanes impact Black households disproportionately
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 6/9/2009
- A confession: we’ve learned firsthand the reasons for disaster rebuilding delays
- Texas home rebuilding for hurricane survivors unacceptably slow
- Karen Paup’s testimony on post hurricane housing rebuilding in Texas
- I thought pigs would fly first, but landlord and tenant advocates work together
- Texas Monthly blows it on Yvonne Davis rating
- Ten years of remarkable success: Texas Bootstrap Housing Program
- Texas legislature rejects adoption of federal fair housing law
- TexasHousers on Twitter
- Once again, here is my prescription for fixing TSAHC
- Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation left twisting in the wind
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 6/2/2009
- The truly critical issue the Legislature failed to act on
- Summary of legislative action on Texas housing trust fund
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 5/26/2009
- Quick summary of Texas Legislature’s housing accomplishments
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 4/26/2009
- $20 million added by House to Texas housing trust fund
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 4/14/2009
- Activity at legislature leads to less blogging
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 4/7/2009
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/24/2009
- Texas realtors association oppose housing trust fund bill
- TxLIHIS Karen Paup and NLIHC Sheila Crowley testify on housing disaster recovery
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/17/2009
- My excuse for a irregular blogging – bill filing deadline
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/10/2009
- The struggle begins to successfully design a TX Neighborhood Stabilization Program
- Housing advocates tell HUD that TX Disaster recovery plan fails to disclose how the money will be spent
- Texas once again has the nation’s highest homeowner insurance rates
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 3/3/2009
- Can Texas handle the increase in homeless and low-income weatherization funds?
- Texas share of housing funds from Economic Stimulus bill announced
- Court rules that city fair housing certification is “not a mere boilerplate formality”
- President’s budget to fund Natinal Housing Trust Fund with $1 billion
- Houston homeownership initiative spurs outrage – but there is a worse dimension to this story
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/24/2009
- Senate Committee explores state role in easing home foreclosure problems
- Texas legislature focuses on unmet rural housing needs
- A failed housing program will always come back and bite the responsible entity
- Housing Texas, TACDC, others to coordinate push for housing trust fund
- Expansion and revisions to Texas Bootstrap Loan program proposed
- Two Texas Senate bills seek to endow housing trust with $40 million per year
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/17/2009
- Texas Senate to hear request for additional housing trust funds
- …and over affordable housing issues on the Texas Senate side
- TX House Committee over housing programs dominated by Democrats; D-FW
- The president hears a type of story that we hear every day
- What we mean by affordable housing: an open letter to Congress
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/10/2009
- Low income housing details of Senate compromise stimulus bill disclosed
- Texas housing community calls of Legislature to provide $40 million per year for the Texas Housing Trust Fund
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 2/3/2009
- Proposed simulus bill fails to address low income housing adequately
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/27/2009
- February 3 meeting to discuss Texas housing legislation
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/20/2009
- Florida Housing Trust Fund raided to balance state budget
- National housing advocates urge changes to economic stimulus bill
- Dallas public housing authority hires new director
- Major funding for low income housing proposed in economic stimulus bill
- Bad decisions on hurricane rebuilding will force cuts in critical Texas services
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/14/2009
- Fix the Texas Hurricane Ike and Dolly rebuilding plan
- Texas will be forced to ration hurricane home repair grants
- Watch “The Old Man and the Storm” on-line
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 1/6/2009
- Let’s resolve to win a serious housing trust fund for Texas
- PBS film documements role of race, class and politics in rebuilding hurricane damaged homes
- 87 percent of Texas communities exceed US poverty rate in new survey
- SRO housing organization shows how to earn community support
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/30/2008
- Governor Perry must act to let hurricane victims move into apartments
- Woman, whose fight for housing repair revealed government waste, dies in her home
- Houston’s Tropical Storm Allison home repair debacle provides warning regarding Hurricane Ike funds
- Christmas in a South Texas colonia
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/23/2008
- Changes to TX Residential Construction Commission do not fix the problem
- It is time to stop pretending the COG disaster housing rebuilding program is the answer
- Proposal to include housing in economic stimulus
- Examining claims of local effectiveness in administration of housing disaster funds
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/18/2008
- Texas official in charge of disaster assistance refuses to state housing needs will be funded
- Put an end to FEMA trailers by moving people quickly into permanent housing
- My suggestions for a Texas disaster housing program
- Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears hurdle
- National housing advocates pleased with new HUD Secretary
- Existing statewide housing program should be the vehicle for assisting Hurricane Ike survivors
- Names for next HUD secretary emerge – yawn
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/9/2008
- Texas disaster recovery plan is based on bad data and faulty assumptions
- Texas disaster plan – an ill conceived pork barrel
- Galveston public housing conditions illustrate results of HUD’s failure to give a damn
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 12/2/2008
- Mortgage crisis imperils new affordable housing developments
- Is federal disaster assistance an entitlement?
- Closer scrutiny will follow Texas expenditure of $1.3 billion in hurricane relief
- Reforming FEMA alone won’t fix the problem
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/25/2008
- Texas must learn from Mississippi CDBG fund misuse
- North Texas emerges as ground zero in newly energized fight against racial housing segregation
- President Bush considers pardoning former Texas housing agency board member
- Stories of eleven Texas families document FEMA’s illegal and systemic discrimination against the poor
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/19/2008
- Houston uses local housing funds to replace disallowed federal housing funds
- Seeking solutions to providing low-income housing in rural Texas
- What’s with FEMA’s high denial rate of Galveston area requests for help?
- New Dallas Housing Authority leader needs to focus on the best interest of the tenants
- Texas cities should place derelict apartments in receivership
- Slow expenditures, questionable priorities plague Houston and Harris County administered hurricane relief efforts
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/12/2008
- Houston Chronicle urges prioritizing rebuilding Galveston public housing
- Rough outlines of Texas $178m Neighborhood Stabilization Program emerge
- Correcting Houston’s extreme shortage of government subsidized housing should be top priority
- Mayor White saves 1000 renters from eviction but fundamental low-income housing issues remain
- The Federal Reserve presents a tale of two Texas poverty neighborhoods
- Texas State officials and FEMA in open war over Ike recovery
- My hopes for the Obama administration’s housing policy
- Louisiana extends its sympathies to Texas regarding FEMA
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 11/5/2008
- Confusion and delays plague temporary housing programs for Hurricane Ike survivors
- New report profiles loan delinquencies and foreclosures in Texas cities
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 10/29/2008
- We endorse Texas Attorney General Abbott’s call for mortgage deferment legislation to help struggling homeowners
- Brooke Boston, state housing deputy director, is stepping down
- A public housing advocate senses tide turning against Galvestion public housing rebuilding
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 10/22/2008
- Ike housing damages said to be $8.5 billion in Harris County; more than 1/2 of Houston apartments damaged
- It should be about more than just helping the middle class
- Nearly 306,000 Ike damaged properties in Texas have been reviewed by FEMA inspectors
- Homeowners rebuilding from Hurricane Ike have basically no consumer protection in Texas
- Southeast Texas elected leaders demand temporary FEMA trailers despite health risks
- Gov. Perry picks Eckels, Newby to lead Hurricane Ike recovery and coordination effort
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 10/15/2008
- City Council to vote (finally) on East Austin Homestead Preservation District
- Texas farmworker housing problems impact state’s agriculture industry
- Analysis of HUD report on low scoring subsidized housing in Texas
- National Housing Trust Fund becomes subject of political distortions
- Please read this woman’s story and tell me how to address her housing problem
- My recommendations for dealing with the low-income homeownership problems in Texas
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 10/7/2008
- Another voice against the attack on the Community Reinvestment Act
- The big lie about the role of affordable lending goals in the collapse of Fannie Mae
- LBJ speech recalls struggle to bring low-income housing to Austin
- LBJ’s struggle to get Austin to accept public housing offers lessons for today
- Bill O’Reilly vs Barney Frank shoutdown over Fannie Mae
- Shifting the blame from subprime lenders and Wall Street to the victims
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/30/2008
- Thanks for supporting our 20th anniversary
- New Orleans de je vue in Galveston
- Hurricane Ike emergency housing status
- A US homebuilder makes a major contribution to getting Mexicans to hate us
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/23/2008
- The foreclosure resistant low income mortgage loan
- FEMA rejects Mayor White’s request to allow Houston to begin immediate emergency housing repairs
- Lessons from Kartina and Rita about rebuilding permanent housing for low income hurricane survivors
- How to judge the success of Hurricane Ike housing relief? Count the blue roofs in six months.
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/16/2008
- A New Orleans obituary has lessons for Galveston
- Our ten point plan for rehousing low income Hurricane Ike survivors
- Apply the lessens of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita to the Ike relief efforts
- New management of GSEs says housing tax credits will not be dumped
- We could have been better prepared for Hurricane Ike
- Revitalizing nuisance properties to be explored at Dallas meeting
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compliation – 9/10/2008
- Texas should prioritize energy efficiency in low income housing development
- Affordable lending is not to blame for the demise of Fannie and Freddie
- Could a federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prove disasterous for low income rental housing?
- State housing agency board acts fiscally responsibly on LIHTC awards
- TxLIHIS 20th Anniversary: The Origins of TxLIHIS
- Come to our 20th anniversary party October 1
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 9/3/2008
- Houston: The Real Texas? I pray not based on these attitudes
- When the next hurricane hits most low income Texas homeowners will not have any insurance
- Three years after Katrina: from compassion to racist stereotypes
- New Census study documents stunning levels of income inequality in Texas
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/27/2008
- Weighing political convention speehes on government’s obligation to lift up the poor
- As the pumpkin season approaches there is not housing for farm workers in the Texas pumpkin capital
- TxLIHIS 20th Anniversary: the Blackland Neighborhood, the Street People’s Advisory Committee and Homer the Goose
- Plight of renters unaddressed in foreclosure crisis
- It is time to abolish the ineffective Texas Residential Construction Commission
- Dallas considers major permanent housing committment for the homeless
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/20/2008
- Who says home equity loans are a good idea?
- After 25 years one Austin community development corporation is a model of success
- Texas Senate committee hears strong support for Texas Housing Trust Fund
- New report says Dallas, Houston show increases in concentrated working poverty rates
- A critical moment in the housing tax credit program looms
- Dallas Morning News op-ed makes economic argument against housing segregation
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/13/2008
- Part 2: 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, still waiting for integrated communities
- Part 1: 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, still waiting for integrated communities
- Reporter alleges Section 8 tenant crime wave, but where is the evidence?
- Poverty comes to the Texas suburbs
- Are we encouraging people to buy homes who shouldn’t?
- The persistence of Texas ghettos is a problem for us all
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 8/6/2008
- Something went terribly wrong at the Pleasant Village Apartments
- Focusing on the big picture of housing assistance
- When cities do not act, let’s give communities the power to take over abandoned properties
- Texas Housercast: Talking energy saving and green building in low income housing
- Dallas Housing Authority director resigns under pressure – this is one tough job
- New housing bill presents TDHCA a test of its public purpose
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/30/2008
- Lt. Governor Dewhurst pledges to “double or triple” Texas Housing Trust Fund
- Questions, answers, concerns about the new $4 billion foreclosed homes program in Texas
- National Housing Trust Fund bill passed by Congress!
- Austin housers win funding victory
- Understanding public attitudes toward public housing
- The toll from Hurricane Dolly is not in and we’re not prepared for a low income housing disaster
- Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation – 7/23/2008
- Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Dallas frozen and challanged in lawsuit
- Houston’s fair housing failure segregates Katrina evacuees in SW slum apartments
- Two proposed tools to get aggressive with slum landlords
- Houston Mayor Bill White tells Houstonians not to worry about substandard apartments
- It is too late for two children but now is the time for Houston to act on slum apartments
- VISTAs make good things happen in housing
- Recalling the prehistory of public housing in Texas
- Just how crazy can the WSJ editorial page be? Check out the attack on the housing trust fund.
- When housing advocates sell out bad things happen
- Top 10 reasons to be a Texas low income housing optimist
- The effect of the Fannie/Freddie meltdown on affordable housing
- The present day saga on one Texas non-border colonia
- New designs for low income post-disaster housing in Texas
- The Texas mortgage industry needs to take a hard look in the mirror
- Austin housers voice concerns over proposed city housing cuts
- Katrina evacuee’s Habitat success story greeted by cheers and jeers
- The voice of consumers is missing in judging subsidized housing
- Nonprofit FHA downpayment assistance scheme nets 19% Texas defaults
- Unraveling the mystery of 500 unused Dallas Section 8 vouchers
- El Cenizo community leader Lupe De Leon fought for property rights, housing, better living conditions
- The best (and worst) performing Texas public housing authorities according to HUD
- Part 2: Housing segregation in Austin – a community blind to the problem
- Part 1: Housing segregation in Austin – a product of government policy
- Housers need to shun “over-opinionization” and appreciate the big picture
- Sunset Commission votes to reauthorize TSAHC for six years
- State of the Nation’s Housing – it’s getting worse
- Everything is bigger in Texas – except our housing trust fund
- Lingering concerns about Texas Hurricane Rita home rebuilding
- A honest critique of media foreclosure prevention pablum
- Texas Teachers Retirement Fund speculates in subprime mortgage backed securities
- Save the TX State Affordable Housing Corporation by giving it a new mission
- Home builders object and Austin backs away from housing visitability requirements
- City of Austin’s affordable housing initiative fizzles out
- Curbing substandard housing in rural Texas
- City of Austin staff proposes housing cuts of over $6 million
- House flippers and scam artists prey on Houston poor
- Disgraceful indifference to substandard conditions in Houston
- An important role for state legislatures in the foreclosure crisis
- One perspective on the Texas foreclosure crisis
- Dealing (or not) with the foreclosure crisis in Texas
- National fixes for post disaster housing programs
- Understanding the role of GSEs, HUD and affordable housing in the subprime crisis
- At least we are better off than Mississippi and Alabama
- Inclusionary zoning: background
- Recommendations for state action to prevent displacement of low income people from gentrifying neighborhoods
- Cleaning house at the state
- Let’s expand self-help housing across Texas
- Texas tempts fate and courts disaster
- TxLIHIS testimony on Senate housing studies
- FEMA and HUD: not who you would want to depend on to throw you a life preserver
- Farewell Kristin
- Texas House of Representatives studies housing
- Do Texas cities care about gentrification?
- TX Senate studies housing
- Inclusionary zoning redux
- We have not learned the lessons of Katrina
- 32 years in low income housing in Texas
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