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		<title>Mitt Romney at private fundraiser: I might eliminate HUD &#8211; The Washington Post</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/05/01/mitt-romney-at-private-fundraiser-i-might-eliminate-hud-the-washington-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports on a statement made by Mitt Romney about HUD. “I’m going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go,” Romney told the audience. His words were heard by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5959&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo’s housing news clips: Study finds zoning segregates lower-income students in lower-scoring schools.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A news analysis of Texas’ allocation of federal housing funds shows the process fosters continued segregation. Although the HUD programs are intended to break up concentrations of poverty households, placement of tax-incentive projects and other low-income housing in more affluent neighborhoods is usually blocked by protesting residents. For a pdf version of the full stories, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5951&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporter Karisa King&#8217;s full Texas housing story is out in the San Antonio Express News. It is a devastating expose of the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit program. $9.7 billion in federal funds have been spent by the State of Texas that has on balance enhanced racial and ethnic segregation through the State&#8217;s administration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5944&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/04/21/low-income-housing-program-compels-building-in-poor-texas-areas-nytimes-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing segregation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karisa King of the San Antonio Epress News has an incredibly researched and  very disturbing story in Sunday&#8217;s New York Times and Texas Tribune. The interactive maps are stunning at: http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/tax-credit-housing-locations/ Plans to build a low-income apartment complex for seniors in one of San Antonio’s most fashionable neighborhoods had been posted for barely a week in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5936&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo’s housing news clips: National home foreclosures and Galveston housing woes are top stories in recent weeks</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/04/17/bos-housing-news-clips-national-home-foreclosures-and-galveston-housing-woes-are-top-stories-past-2-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday Report, April 17, 2012 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Wrangling between the Galveston Housing Authority and the General Land Office continues after the authority posited a new plan that would potentially fund market-rate units. The land office now threatens to pursue its own options for rebuilding public housing destroyed three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5926&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Secretary hosts ceremony honoring Cesar Chavez while slashing funds for housing farmworkers</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/27/labor-secretary-hosts-ceremony-honoring-cesar-chavez-while-slashing-funds-for-housing-farmworkers/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/27/labor-secretary-hosts-ceremony-honoring-cesar-chavez-while-slashing-funds-for-housing-farmworkers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recognition offered yesterday to leaders of the farmworker movement by US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was welcome. The event was marred however by the audacity of the Secretary to stand in front of the leaders of the struggle of the farmworkers and proclaim “Si, se puede!” after he approved a proposal to largely end the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5890&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo&#8217;s housing news clips: Cost of living in Austin is &#8216;Out of Reach&#8217; for most renters</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/27/bos-housing-news-clips-cost-of-living-in-austin-is-out-of-reach-for-most-renters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Clips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service by Bo McCarver A few economists are now saying that the housing market is stabilizing – but recovery from the bust is slow as 23 percent of mortgages are underwater and home prices still exceed what most potential buyers can borrow. A new report shows that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5887&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Falkenberg: Learning a lot from the Rankin debacle &#8211; Houston Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/25/falkenberg-learning-a-lot-from-the-rankin-debacle-houston-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg wrote her column today on former Harris County Housing Authority executive director Guy Rankin&#8230; When I apply for my next big gig &#8211; preferably something managerial &#8211; I think Ill toss this choice line into my résumé: &#8220;Falkenberg is considered to be the best metro columnist in America when it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5884&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition of conservative activists&#8217; calls for consolidation of TDHCA and TSAHC</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/21/coalition-of-conservative-activists-calls-for-consolidation-of-tdhca-and-tsahc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a reprise of a plan decisively rejected by the Texas Legislature last session, a coalition of conservative public policy advocacy and lobby groups, including the Texas Tea Party is once again calling for consolidation of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs with the nonprofit corporation, the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation (TSAHC). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5867&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Court rules Texas Housing Tax Credit program violates Fair Housing Act</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/20/court-rules-texas-housing-tax-credit-program-violates-fair-housing-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inclusive Communities Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Low Income Housing Tax Credits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning a federal court ruled in a case filed by a Dallas fair housing organization that the way the State of Texas administers the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program has a disparate racial impact, violating §§ 3604(a) and 3605(a) of the Fair Housing Act (Civil Rights Act of 1968). Judge Sidney Fitzwater, chief judge of the Federal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5854&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo&#8217;s housing clips: Battered by crisis, poor still find paths to home ownership</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/20/bos-housing-clips-battered-by-crisis-poor-still-find-paths-to-home-ownership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compiled by Bo McCarver. Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service As default notices and foreclosures continue, the Federal Reserve prepares to fine eight more banks for making sleazy mortgages. But punitive actions do little to help “underwater” homeowners, some of whom have mounted a demonstration in Fort Worth. Meanwhile, the TARP bailout [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5847&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Potashnik to restart work outside TX new court filing says &#124; dallasnews.com Crime Blog</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/19/brian-potashnik-to-restart-work-outside-tx-new-court-filing-says-dallasnews-com-crime-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Low Income Housing Tax Credit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dallas Morning News reporter Jason Trahan has blogged that a Texas low income housing tax credit developer at the center of the FBI sting that sent Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill to federal prison has petitioned the judge that he be allowed to travel to europe to engage in neighborhood redevelopment projects in Israel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5839&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Austin American-Statesman: State should ask HNTB for a refund</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HNTVB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following editorial is from an editorial in today&#8217;s Austin-American Statesman. A state disaster relief contract has itself been declared a disaster by federal auditors who recommend that Texas repay $9 million in overcharges collected by HNTB to administer disaster relief grants. Federal auditors found instances of overbilling by the company and poor oversight by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5827&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Reach: The Housing Wage in Context</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/15/out-of-reach-the-housing-wage-in-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affordable housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from On the Home Front: Yesterday, NLIHC released Out of Reach 2012: America&#8217;s Forgotten Housing Crisis.  This report highlights the gap between wages renters actually earn, and what they would need to earn to afford the rent and utilities for a modest two-bedroom apartment in their state. As a part of our release, we held [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5822&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State report: 29% of TX first round HUD disaster funds drawn down, 0% 2nd round</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/14/state-report-29-of-tx-first-round-hud-disaster-funds-drawn-down-0-2nd-round/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disaster recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Dolly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Ike]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent stories in the Austin American-Statesman, the Texas Tribune and the New York Times have chronicled the slow pace of the Texas Hurricane Ike and Dolly disaster recovery program using federal funds. Let&#8217;s step back and look at a snapshot of the state&#8217;s entire disaster recovery effort to get some perspective. Here are the numbers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5798&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest data shows TX minimum wage earners can&#8217;t afford half the rent on a typical apartment</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/13/latest-data-shows-tx-minimum-wage-earners-cant-afford-half-the-rent-on-a-typical-apartment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[National issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a national report released today, the Housing Wage for Texas is $15.88. The Housing Wage is the hourly wage a family must earn – working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year – to be able to afford the rent and utilities for a safe and modest home in the private housing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5777&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-13-2012</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/13/bo-mccarvers-weekly-housing-news-compilation-3-1-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/13/bo-mccarvers-weekly-housing-news-compilation-3-1-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration promises zero-tolerance for infractions of mortgage rules negotiated in a settlement with big banks last month. Mortgages under the auspice of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which make up 56 percent of the US mortgages, are not subject to the oversight measures. Almost four years after Hurricanes Rita and Ike, not one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5792&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Homeless hotspots’ at South X Southwest stir controversy</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/12/homeless-hotspots-at-south-by-southwest-stir-up-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeless]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A company has handed out mobile hotspots to homeless folks to walk around SXSW in Austin and people pay them $2 to get a connection to the internet. This set off a lot of comment with some people saying it is exploration and others (including some of the &#8220;homeless hotspots&#8221; as the workers are known) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5770&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Candidate for most outrageous quote of 2012: HNTB says Texas disaster recovery program is &#8220;on target and on budget&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/11/candidate-for-most-outrageous-quote-of-2012-hntb-says-texas-disaster-recovery-program-is-on-target-and-on-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HNTB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Dolly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austin American Statesman reporter Brenda Bell has an amazing quote from HNTB in her story today about the HUD audit of the State of Texas Hurricane Ike and Dolly disaster recovery program. The HUD audit found that Texas improperly contracted with the engineering firm HNTB to manage hundreds of millions of dollars worth of hurricane recovery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5764&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-6-2012</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/10/bo-mccarvers-weekly-housing-news-compilation-3-6-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/10/bo-mccarvers-weekly-housing-news-compilation-3-6-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Clips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another federal program to help beleaguered homeowners has fizzled: after two years, less than 3 percent of a $7.6 billion program to help unemployed homeowners has been spent. In Galveston, another effort has been mounted to stall rebuilding public housing that was destroyed three years ago in Hurricane Ike. U.S. Rep. Ted Poe is calling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5762&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Audit Questions $8 Million Paid to HNTB — General Land Office &#124; The Texas Tribune</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/10/federal-audit-questions-8-million-paid-to-hntb-general-land-office-the-texas-tribune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second article in as many days, Texas Tribune reporter Becca Aaronson has disclosed a HUD inspector general&#8217;s report that says the State of Texas’ Ike-Dolly disaster recovery program, which is funded by the federal government, is facing a potential $8 million repayment of inflated fees paid to the private contractor hired by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5757&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amid Finger-Pointing, Hurricane Relief for Texans Lags &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/09/amid-finger-pointing-hurricane-relief-for-texans-lags-nytimes-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT ran a story written by Texas Tribune reporter Becca Aaronson on the state of disaster recovery in Texas&#8230; Nearly four years after Hurricanes Ike and Dolly wreaked havoc on the Texas coast, thousands of Texans are still waiting for housing assistance. The long-term disaster recovery effort financed by the federal government has made little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5748&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Poverty of an Idea &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/03/03/the-poverty-of-an-idea-nytimes-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Op-Ed by Maurice Isserman, a professor of history in today&#8217;s NYT frames the competing views of poverty in the US quite well. The conclusion is sobering and distressing: lack of continued popular economic analysis of poverty since the passing of Michael Harrington &#8220;We are left instead with the insistent, culturally determined arguments of Mr. Murray and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5741&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Housing authority shake-up may be under way &#8211; Houston Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/02/29/housing-authority-shake-up-may-be-under-way-houston-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harris County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harris County Housing Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public housing authorities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Houston Chronicle reports&#8230; Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday replaced the board chairman of the Harris County Housing Authority, starting what appears will be an extended shake-up at the agency following revelations of imprudent spending. &#8230; Tuesday&#8217;s appointment comes as the authority is negotiating with CEO Guy Rankin IV about the terms of his departure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5734&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-28-2012</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/02/28/bo-mccarvers-weekly-housing-news-compilation-2-28-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Market analysts, eager to see silver linings after years of dark news, perceive a recovery in the housing industry as inventories decline. The market, however, belongs to those who can pay cash up front; those seeking mortgage loans are still crippled by a general reluctance of bankers to invest. For a pdf version of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5729&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Harris County Housing Authority gets motivated to act like the top 1 percent</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/02/27/the-harris-county-housing-authority-gets-motivated-to-act-like-the-top-1-percent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harris County Housing Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Houston Chronicle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the previous blog post was not a sufficient indictment of the outrageous spending by the Harris County Housing Authority check out Mike Morris&#8217; Houston Chronicle blog post. He documents the cost of getting the housing authority staff motivated through&#8230; A $5,500 fee for motivation speaker Garrison Wynn to address authority staff at their July 30, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5721&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harris County Housing Authority&#8217;s excesses exposed by Houston Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/02/27/harris-county-housing-authoritys-excesses-exposed-by-houston-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harris County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harris County Housing Authority]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Appalling. &#8230; One of the greater abuses of appointed office that I&#8217;ve seen,&#8221; Harris County Judge Ed Emmett told the Houston Chronicle. That does not overstate the bizarre expenditures at the Harris County Housing Authority, based on today&#8217;s story by Mike Morris in the Houston Chronicle. Yet inexplicably, the Harris County Housing Authority boasts it is HUD’s highest-performing housing authority in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5706&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Whitest town in North Texas&#8217; fights to keep it that way</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/02/27/the-whitest-town-in-north-texas-fights-to-keep-it-that-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIMBY]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This might just be the ideal place to film a remake of &#8220;Birth Of A Nation,&#8221; D.W. Griffith&#8217;s silent film extolling the KKK. Proud of its designation as a &#8220;film friendly community&#8221; by the Texas Film Commission, the Dallas suburb of Sunnyvale is not extending a friendly spirit toward low income people and African American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5695&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Texas kids live in concentrated poverty than in any other state</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/02/23/more-texas-kids-live-in-concentrated-poverty-than-in-any-other-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie E. Casey Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing segregation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to a child to grow up in a neighborhood where poverty is concentrated? That is a question that Texas children are uniquely able to answer. More Texas children live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty that any other state – 1,120,000 Texas children according to a report issued today by the Annie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5683&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Texas state housing agency director discusses reorganization, relying on fewer, larger contractors</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2012/02/22/new-texas-state-housing-agency-director-discusses-reorganization-new-relationship-with-contractors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TDHCA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Irvine, named executive director of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs just a couple of months ago, announced at last week&#8217;s board meeting a major staff reorganization and a new relationship with housing providers. Irvine announced the department will seek to work with larger, more administratively capable contractors to carry out the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5662&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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