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		<title>Bo&#8217;s Clips: Suburban Poverty Grows</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/05/21/bos-clips-suburban-poverty-grows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Brookings Institute study says America’s poor are increasingly pushed out into the suburbs where the costs of living and transportation is higher. Austin is second in the nation in suburban poverty growth. For a pdf version of the full stories, plus contextual articles in social, environmental and legal areas, contact Bo McCarver at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6715&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NLIHC Highlights Nacogdoches Tenant Association</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/05/21/nlihc-highlights-nacogdoches-tenant-association/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spring 2013 issue of Tenant Talk, a publication of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, contains a moving essay by Gloria More about organizing her fellow tenants of the Eastwood Terrace, a property in Nacogdoches, Texas: The view outside my window painted a dismal scene. I closed my eyes and tried to picture the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6710&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Passes TDHCA Sunset</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/05/17/senate-passes-tdhca-sunset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Senate passed out the TDHCA Sunset bill this afternoon.  The bill voted out adopted the recommendations of the Sunset Commission, removing endorsement letters from legislators from the statutory scoring of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit award process. These letters have previously been discussed at Texas Housers.  A floor amendment re-instituting the letters [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6701&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo&#8217;s Clips: Homeownership and Labor Mobility</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/05/14/bos-clips-homeownership-and-labor-mobility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “American Dream” of homeownership is challenged by a new study that links high rates of unemployment to high rates of homeownership. Individual efforts to cling to homes limit mobility to jobs. Meanwhile, another investigation notes that as the housing market improves, so does worker mobility. For a pdf version of the full stories, plus [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6699&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TDHCA Sunset Heads to Senate</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/05/10/tdhca-sunset-heads-to-senate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TXLIHIS Co-Director John Henneberger testified this week at the Intergovernmental Relations Committee hearing on the TDHCA Sunset bill.  His testimony appears below, and focuses on the role of legislative letters in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program: The entire discussion of the bill is available via Senate Real Audio starting at 1:16:42, and goes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6692&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo&#8217;s Clips: Continuing mortgage servicing abuses</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/05/07/bos-clips-continuing-mortgage-servicing-abuses/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/05/07/bos-clips-continuing-mortgage-servicing-abuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 14:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the housing industry slowly recovers, New York’ attorney general is suing big banks for continuing to scam borrowers. The action alleges that the banks still practice abusive mortgage lending in the wake of a $25 billion settlement last year. Meanwhile, the energy boom in Texas’ Permian Basin has increased the demand for housing that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6685&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rare Floor Fight on Model Subdivision Rules Bill</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/05/03/rare-floor-fight-on-model-subdivision-rules-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Week, HB 611, (Rep Guillen) died on the floor of the Texas house on a record vote.  The bill was often characterized as a rollback of the model subdivision rules, development rules designed to prevent the creation of further colonias. Below is a highlight video clip of six minutes of the forty-five minute debate [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6681&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo&#8217;s Clips: Minorities Pay More for Homes</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/30/bos-clips-minorities-pay-more-for-homes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racial inequities in US housing ownership continue as a new report shows minorities pay more for their homes and are almost 30 percent less likely to own a home than Caucasians. Maps show that special segregation is still the norm in most cities. For a pdf version of the full stories, contact Bo McCarver at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6678&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riddle amendment to TDHCA Sunset bill is ill-conceived and discriminatory</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/29/riddle-amendment-to-tdhca-sunset-bill-is-ill-conceived-and-discriminatory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote last week about the ill-conceived amendment the Texas House of Representatives tacked onto the TDHCA Sunset bill. The first part of this amendment removed the Sunset Commission recommendations and gave state representatives virtual veto power over Low Income Housing Tax Credit applications. Today I want to focus on the other part of that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6658&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TX House gives each state representative power to choose or veto housing tax credit developments</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/26/house-passes-amendment-giving-each-state-representative-power-to-choose-or-veto-housing-tax-credit-developments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An eleventh hour amendment to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) Sunset bill by a strong opponent of housing tax credits gives each member of the Texas Legislature unprecedented power to choose the winning tax credit application in their district or to effectively block affordable housing tax credit developments altogether. The amendment removes from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6645&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House Amends TDHCA Sunset Bill</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/25/house-amends-tdhca-sunset-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/25/house-amends-tdhca-sunset-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas House yesterday debated HB3361, the  bill to continue the functions of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs after its review by the Sunset Commission.  The main topic of conversation was scoring legislative support support letters for Low Income Housing Tax Credit developments.  For those just joining this conversation, we&#8217;ve discussed those letters [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6634&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Westchester NY county executive agrees to source of income protection under fair housing settlement &#8211; ProPublica</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/25/westchester-ny-county-executive-agrees-to-source-of-income-protection-under-fair-housing-settlement-propublica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Source of Income discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Department of Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westchester]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino submitted legislation today to ban discrimination against people who pay their rent with government assistance, a day after the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to haul the county into court over the issue. In a letter to the county’s Board of Legislators, Astorino wrote, &#8220;In light of all of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6630&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HUD closing Dallas and Lubbock field offices to cut costs</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/25/hud-closing-dallas-and-lubbock-field-offices-to-cut-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/25/hud-closing-dallas-and-lubbock-field-offices-to-cut-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Wednesday announced a series of restructuring and systemic changes within its Office of Multifamily Housing Programs and the Office of Field Policy and Management (FPM).  The changes, which include consolidating Multifamily hubs nationwide and closing 16 smaller offices, affect approximately 900 of the Departments’ 9,000 employees. HUD [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6627&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The facts about Texas weatherization spending contradict Senate Finance chairman&#8217;s claim</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/23/check-the-budg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas System Benefit Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weatherization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Check the budget. We already spend a lot of money of weatherization.&#8221; This quote came from Senator Williams successfully arguing on the floor of the Texas Senate yesterday to defeat an amendment to use some of the $811 million System Benefit Fund for weathering the homes of poor Texans. We did what the Senator suggested. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6595&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Galveston agrees to steps to rebuild public housing</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/23/galveston-agrees-to-steps-to-rebuild-public-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/23/galveston-agrees-to-steps-to-rebuild-public-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Galveston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Galveston Housing Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Galveston Texas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Ike]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears that the rebuilding of the 569 public housing in Galveston demolished in the wake of Hurricane Ike may be back on track. Sources tell me that the Galveston Housing Authority voted today 4-1 to accept the requirements of the Texas General Land Office concerning the rebuilding of public housing. Last week the Galveston City [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6589&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo&#8217;s Clips: Wall Street Betting on Single Family</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/23/bos-clips-wall-street-betting-on-single-family/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/23/bos-clips-wall-street-betting-on-single-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Clips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the housing recovery stalls, big banks move in to grab the bargains, leaving low-income buyers languishing. Market analysts speculate that banks may be caught in another housing bubble of their own making. In Galveston, the city council finally throws in the towel and moves forward to replace public housing units lost in Hurricane Ike [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6586&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Senate robs from the poor, gives away the money available for low-income utility assistance</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/22/texas-senate-robs-from-the-poor-gives-away-the-money-available-for-low-income-utility-assistance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Rodney Ellia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Royce West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Tommie Williams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without bothering to put on masks, a majority of Texas Senators voted this afternoon to rob $811 million from a fund collected to help the poor pay their utility bills. There is not any other way to characterize today&#8217;s action. The Senate voted to return the funds in the State account collected from Texas utility [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6581&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re proud to be a Texas partner of the National Low Income Housing Coalition</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/21/were-proud-to-be-a-texas-partner-of-the-national-low-income-housing-coalition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Low Income Housing Coalition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that assures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes. Get involved and join today<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6576&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas can act now to prevent the next industrial disaster in Port Arthur and Texas City</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/21/texas-must-act-now-to-prevent-the-next-industrial-disaster-in-port-arthur-and-texas-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port Arthur]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Minutaglio, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, the author of “City on Fire: The Explosion That Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle,” has a column in today&#8217;s NYT that Texas leaders should read and heed. Minutaglio examines the explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, TX [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6547&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Ike survivors testify at House Ways and Means</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/19/hurricane-ike-survivors-testify-at-house-ways-and-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HB835]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shelly Batten and Tina Colunga drove up from Galveston yesterday to testify on HB 835.  HB 835, by Representative Eiland, (and it&#8217;s aptly numbered companion, SB 835, by Senator Lucio,) say that homes provided through a government disaster recovery program are not considered newly valued improvements if they replace or repair a substandard home.  This addresses [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6398&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Texas learn a lesson from the tragedy at West?</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/18/will-we-learn-the-lesson-from-the-tragedy-at-west/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/18/will-we-learn-the-lesson-from-the-tragedy-at-west/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental impact assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[explosions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hazardous waste incinerator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Ike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motiva plant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is horrified at the loss of life and destruction last night from the explosion of a fertilizer plant in the town of West. One of the many things we must resolve in light of this disaster is to make sure that steps are taken to prevent a recurrence elsewhere. It was clearly a mistake [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6391&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CFED: Manufactured Homes in South Texas</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/17/cfed-manufactured-homes-in-south-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning CFED unveiled two sets of materials covering Manufactured Housing in South Texas: a Data Snapshot, which illustrates the role of manufactured homes in the South Texas affordable housing market, who lives in them and how they serve the housing needs of their owners, and a Policy Snapshot, which describes how the Texas and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6385&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo&#8217;s Clips: Houston Looks for Work Force Housing</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/16/bos-clips-houston-looks-for-work-force-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/16/bos-clips-houston-looks-for-work-force-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Houston planners are proposing to develop more work force housing for middle income households inside the inner loop. The mayor is quoted as saying the city has enough housing for its rich and poor but needs more homes for middle-income workers to live closer to their jobs. For a pdf version of the full stories, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6382&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State halts Galveston funding over failure to build public housing: TX Land Commissioner Patterson explains</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/11/state-halts-galveston-funding-over-failure-to-build-public-housing-tx-land-commissioner-patterson-explains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jerry Patterson The city of Galveston has a choice to make as we try to move forward with plans to complete the recovery from Hurricane Ike: Either quit dragging its feet and comply with the federal requirements as well as the city of Galveston’s own council resolution to rebuild public housing adopted on Sept. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6376&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Housing Act is 45 years old today. LBJ: &#8220;We have come some of the way, not near all of it. There is much yet to do.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/11/fair-housing-act-is-45-years-old-today-we-have-come-some-of-the-way-not-near-all-of-it-there-is-much-yet-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Act of 1968]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words in the headline are President Johnson&#8217;s on April 11, 1968 as he signed the Fair Housing Act. They remain true today, 45 years later, with regard to the state of fair housing in the United States. President Lyndon Johnson made the following remarks as he signed the Fair Housing Act, less than one [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6361&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo&#8217;s Clips: Texas Lemon Law for Homes Focuses on Veterans</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/09/bos-clips-texas-lemon-law-for-homes-focuses-on-veterans/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/09/bos-clips-texas-lemon-law-for-homes-focuses-on-veterans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fueled by record-low interest rates, housing sales surge beyond supply and send builders scrambling to restart and expand their operations. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration presses banks to use FHA programs reaching buyers with weaker credit records. In Texas, a lemon law to hold builders more accountable for flawed structures runs into opposition from the homebuilders’ [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6370&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Franklin the Fair Housing Fox&#8230; seriously?</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/07/franklin-the-fair-housing-fox-seriously/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/07/franklin-the-fair-housing-fox-seriously/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April is Fair Housing Month, the time of year for cities to pass resolutions that no one reads solemnly proclaiming their support for fair housing, the time for elementary school art classes to conduct fair housing drawing contests for children, and the month that Franklin the Fair Housing Fox comes out of his closet at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6351&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers consider refunding money intended to help poor &#8211; Houston Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/06/lawmakers-consider-refunding-money-intended-to-help-poor-houston-chronicle/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/06/lawmakers-consider-refunding-money-intended-to-help-poor-houston-chronicle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Lucio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Houston Chronicle is reporting on the issue we blogged yesterday. Here is an excerpt from the Chronicle&#8217;s story (behind the paper&#8217;s paywall): A proposal to refund money to electricity customers across the state would enable the Texas Legislature to renege on two promises at once. For 14 years, the Legislature has collected a fee, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6346&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TX Senate Finance Committee takes back money intended to help poor people pay for electricity</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/05/tx-senate-finance-committee-takes-back-money-intended-to-help-poor-people-pay-for-electricity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Low Income Energy Assistance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Legislature is debating what to do with the $850 million fund that helps Texans living near the poverty level with their utility bills. This is important because for Texans who are really poor, electric bills compete for their limited money for housing. Here is the background.  In 1999 when the Legislature deregulated electric rates [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6338&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of Two Sequesters</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2013/04/03/the-tale-of-two-sequesters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sequester]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have a private plane and sequester is going to delay your flight plan?  Don&#8217;t worry, Texas has your back. You live in subsidized housing and sequester is going to put you on the street?  Tough luck. Texas has funds from the National Mortgage Settlement that could be used in housing programs to offset the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=6323&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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