A colleague just pointed out an interesting new website designed to refer people needing help in a range of areas, including housing to agencies and services. The Austin American-Statesman wrote a backgrounder on the site and the people behind it. It looks pretty cool. So far, Aunt Bertha serves Central Texas, but is rapidly expanding […]
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Out of Reach: The Housing Wage in Context
March 15, 2012 
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Reblogged from On the Home Front: Yesterday, NLIHC released Out of Reach 2012: America’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 […]
Read moreThe Texas affordable housing problem made simple
February 16, 2012 1 Comment
The Texas affordable housing problem in three sentences: 1) The poorest Texans have the hardest time finding housing they can afford. 2) The poorest Texans pay way too much for housing than they can afford. 3) Texas government spends most of the funds it has to build housing that is not affordable to the poor […]
Read more New study shows 3 in 4 poor Texas families spend more than half of income for rent
February 15, 2012 Comments Off
Brace yourself for more bad news about the crisis in affordable rental housing for the poor in Texas. This study shows Texas 7th worst among the 50 states in availability of affordable rental housing for extremely low income households. As a result more than 3 in 4 of the poorest families in Texas pay more […]
Read more Colonia improvements still leave the poor in deplorable housing
July 31, 2011 Comments Off
Colonias in the Rio Grande Valley are home to some of the poorest Texans. Governmental efforts to improve living conditions in colonias has mostly been limited to two programs: providing water, sewer and roads to more than half of the colonias and forcing land developers to adhere to “model subdivision rules.” Model subdivision rules require […]
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