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		<title>Couple lives in tent waiting for Ike-damaged home’s repair &#124; khou.com Houston</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think you have seen the worst government can do to Hurricane Ike victims along comes this story. This is funded with the $3.1 billion State administered disaster recovery program. Is no one monitoring how local recipients of the funds treat the people who are being &#8220;assisted&#8221; under the program? (Watch the video) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5477&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fewer than 500 Texas homes repaired in three years since Hurricane Ike</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official figures from the State of Texas show that fewer than 500 homes have been repaired or rebuilt under the State of Texas Hurricane Ike/Dolly disaster recovery program as of this week, the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Ike. A minimum of $1.7 billion in available federal funds provided to the state are aside for housing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5475&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On 3rd anniversary 200 tell Houston City Council reforms are needed in Hurricane Ike recovery program</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/09/14/on-3rd-anniversary-200-tell-houston-city-council-reforms-are-needed-in-hurricane-ike-recovery-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following testimony was presented before the Houston City Council on the third anniversary of Hurricane Ike, September 13, 2011. Tagged: Houston, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5467&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters say city slow to repair Ike-damaged houses &#8211; Houston Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/09/13/protesters-say-city-slow-to-repair-ike-damaged-houses-houston-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bearing photos of homes that still have blue tarps on the roofs, more than 100 protesters held a rally at City Hall on the third anniversary of Hurricane Ike on Tuesday and pleaded with the City Council to accelerate its repair program. &#8220;I&#8217;m tired of the city telling me to be patient,&#8221; said Elvis Malveaux at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5463&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senior&#8217;s city-built home lacked insulation &#8211; Houston Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/09/13/seniors-city-built-home-lacked-insulation-houston-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of delay in getting its housing repair program under way, Houston&#8217;s housing department was eager last month to show off the first batch of new homes built to replace those damaged by Hurricane Ike. But one of the homes wasn&#8217;t quite finished when it was turned over to the homeowner. The contractor neglected to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5459&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Years After Ike, Many Still Await Assistance &#124; Public News Service</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/09/13/three-years-after-ike-many-still-await-assistance-public-news-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Today marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Ike, and many low-income Texans, particularly in the Houston area, have yet to recover from its devastation. Hundreds of affected residents plan to converge on City Hall today, carrying symbolic blue tarps and photos of unrepaired homes, charging that the city has neglected them while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5455&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 13, 2011 is the three year anniversary of Hurricane Ike</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/09/12/september-13-2011-is-the-three-year-anniversary-of-hurricane-ike/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2011/09/12/september-13-2011-is-the-three-year-anniversary-of-hurricane-ike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please take a few moments to consider the plight of the tens of thousands of elderly and disabled Texans who are still waiting for help to repair their homes. Some tell their stories in this video produced a year ago for TxLIHIS by former staffer Melissa Cha. The people in the video are still waiting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5442&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands still recovering from Hurricane Ike &#124; abc13.com</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/07/31/thousands-still-recovering-from-hurricane-ike-abc13-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The community organization TOP held an information fair for low-income Houston homeowners Saturday to help them find out when they can expect to see home repairs through the City of Houston&#8217;s long-delayed CDBG disaster recovery program. The following is from a TV news report. It&#8217;s been almost three years since Hurricane Ike hit, and thousands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5376&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s finally time to get rid of those post-Ike blue tarps &#124; Houston Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/07/30/its-finally-time-to-get-rid-of-those-post-ike-blue-tarps-houston-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 13, 2011, will mark the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Ike making landfall along the upper Texas coast. Residents of the Houston-Galveston area remember all too well the death and destruction Ike left in its path. This community has made remarkable progress over three years recovering from Ike. Yet for too many Houstonians, particularly those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5357&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HUD pointedly directs Galveston to rebuild its public housing</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/07/15/hud-pointedly-directs-galveston-to-rebuild-its-public-housing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an unusual joint letter to Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski, three top HUD leaders told Galveston to move forward to rebuild public housing destroyed by Hurricane Ike or face the loss of federal funding. The July 13, 2011 letter was signed by Mercedes Marquez, HUD Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, John Trasvina, HUD Assistant Secretary for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5210&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;new sheriff&#8221; takes over Texas disaster recovery</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/07/06/a-new-sheriff-takes-over-texas-disaster-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Photo: Texas General Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, from Texas Tribune) Readers will recall Governor Perry passed responsibility for the Hurricane Ike and Hurricane Dolly disaster recovery programs to Texas General Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson effective July 1. This afternoon I met with Gary Hagood, Deputy Commissioner of GLO and the new man responsible for overseeing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5100&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wait gets longer for public housing in Galveston &#124; Houston Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/07/02/wait-gets-longer-for-public-housing-in-galveston-houston-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting and sobering story about rebuilding Galveston public housing that ran in today&#8217;s Houston Chronicle. The story is exerted below. The Galveston Housing Authority (GHA) needs to address the fears of the community that rebuilding will take too long &#8212; in fact it already has taken too long.  The GHA board of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=5087&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The racism of New Berlin is growing in Galveston</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/06/25/the-racism-of-new-berlin-is-growing-in-galveston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We noted yesterday the United States Department of Justice brought suit alleging the City of New Berlin, Wisconsin had violated the Fair Housing Act by denying a developer permission to build a mixed senior, family development financed with Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). I just read the Justice Department&#8217;s compliant in the case. The same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=4893&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Perry switches agencies responsible for disaster recovery funds</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/06/20/governor-perry-switches-agencies-responsible-for-disaster-recovery-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2011/06/20/governor-perry-switches-agencies-responsible-for-disaster-recovery-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shakeups in the State&#8217;s troubled disaster recovery program continue. In the wake of the virtual elimination of the Governor&#8217;s designated lead agency for disaster recovery, the Texas Department of Rural Affairs and a veto of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the Governor has informed HUD of his intention to change lead disaster [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=4812&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Governor Perry&#8217;s veto of Texas Department of Housing</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/06/19/analysis-governor-perrys-veto-of-texas-department-of-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2011/06/19/analysis-governor-perrys-veto-of-texas-department-of-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday Governor Perry vetoed the &#8220;Sunset Bill&#8221; for the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) that would continue the agency in operation for 12 more years. Without passage of the Sunset Bill the state housing agency will wind down operations and cease to exist. The Governor says he vetoed the bill because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=4718&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Galveston housing authority director resigns</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/06/13/galveston-housing-authority-director-resigns/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2011/06/13/galveston-housing-authority-director-resigns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Galveston County Daily News is reporting Galveston Housing Authority Executive Director Harish Krishnarao resigned effective immediately during an executive session of the housing authority&#8217;s board of directors. Krishnarao has come under criticism for the slow process of the planning process for rebuilding 569 public housing units demolished by the housing authority after Hurricane Ike. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=4530&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Houston Town Hall on Disaster Single Family Home Repair</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/05/26/houston-town-hall-on-disaster-single-family-home-repair/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2011/05/26/houston-town-hall-on-disaster-single-family-home-repair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 11:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, May 21, 2011, Texas Organizing Project (TOP) along with other supporting organizations spearheaded a record attendance Town Hall meeting to address the City of Houston&#8217;s lack of attention to Single Family Home Repair due to Hurricane Ike. Over 300 attendants packed Jerusalem Baptist Church to receive information about the ongoing slow progress of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=4117&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HUD Approves Phase I of Texas Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/05/13/hud-approves-phase-i-of-texas-analysis-of-impediments-to-fair-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2011/05/13/hud-approves-phase-i-of-texas-analysis-of-impediments-to-fair-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 19:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the conditions of the TxLIHIS – Texas Appleseed – State of Texas Fair Housing settlement on hurricane recovery is that the state would update its Analysis of Impediments (AI) to Fair Housing.  (See our post Introduction to an “Analysis of Impediments” for discussion of what an AI is).  Today, HUD approved the first phase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=4015&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Henneberger Testimony at TDHCA Board Meeting on Disaster Recovery Housing Programs</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2011/05/09/john-henneberger-testimony-at-tdhca-board-meeting-on-disaster-recovery-housing-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2011/05/09/john-henneberger-testimony-at-tdhca-board-meeting-on-disaster-recovery-housing-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 19:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjewell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Henneberger, a Co-Director of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, spoke at the May 5, 2011 board meeting of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) regarding the status of and proposed changes to the Hurricane Ike Disaster Recovery Housing Programs in Houston and Galveston. Youtube videos of selections of his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=3996&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times praises State of Texas/TxLIHIS disaster recovery settlement</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2010/06/14/new-york-times-praises-state-of-texastxlihis-disaster-recovery-settlement/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2010/06/14/new-york-times-praises-state-of-texastxlihis-disaster-recovery-settlement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times published this editorial Monday about our settlement with the State of Texas. Editorial HUD Steps Up in Texas Published: June 13, 2010 Washington too often looks the other way as state governments rob low-income victims of their fair share of federal disaster aid. The Department of Housing and Urban Development did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=3184&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statement on our Fair Housing settlement with the State of Texas</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2010/05/25/statement-on-the-fair-housing-settlement-with-the-state-of-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2010/05/25/statement-on-the-fair-housing-settlement-with-the-state-of-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUD ACCEPTS $1.7 BILLION REVISED DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN PRIORITIZING REBUILDING HOMES OF SURVIVORS An historic agreement between affordable housing advocates, HUD and the State of Texas redirects hundreds of millions in federal disaster recovery funds to benefit low-income survivors and devastated communities while ensuring fair housing opportunities. Austin, TX – In an historic victory for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=3140&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The TxLIHIS / TX Appleseed / State of Texas fair housing settlement agreement</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2010/05/25/the-txlihis-tx-appleseed-state-of-texas-fair-housing-settlement-agreement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The settlement agreement can be viewed as a PDF document on the HUD website: http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2010/HUDNo.10-106/conciliationagreement.pdf Tagged: Fair housing, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane rebuilding<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=3138&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HUD announces approval of TxLIHIS &#8211; Texas Appleseed &#8211; State of Texas Fair Housing settlement on hurricane recovery</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2010/05/25/hud-announces-approval-of-txlihis-texas-appleseed-state-of-texas-fair-housing-settlement-on-hurricane-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 20:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUD has issued an announcement of their approval of  of the settlement agreement to the TxLIHIS/Texas Appleseed  fair housing complaint against the State of Texas. HUD APPLAUDS REVISED $1.7 BILLION TEXAS DISASTER PLAN Proposed plan targets more funding to high-need areas and housing activities WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today applauded a revised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=3136&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Houston Chronicle reports hurricane rebuilding fund diversion</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2010/01/11/houston-chronicle-reports-hurricane-rebuilding-fund-diversion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Synder of the Houston Chronicle this weekend picked up on the story about Governor Perry&#8217;s diversion of funds away from hurricane impacted areas. Read the full story here. A Texas plan for distributing hurricane recovery funds provided less than half the money needed for housing and business recovery in Galveston and Orange counties while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=2779&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Texas plan directs rebuilding money away from those in need</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2010/01/11/the-texas-plan-directs-rebuilding-money-away-from-those-in-need/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is really no other way to characterize the plan Governor Perry submitted to HUD to spend $1.7 billion in federal disaster recovery funds. The Texas plan is to take money away from those suffering and in need to give to those not in need &#8211; reverse Robin Hood. HUD&#8217;s research, summarized in the map [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=2777&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HUD pushes Governor to redirect hurricane rebuilding funds to hurricane impacted counties</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2010/01/11/hud-pushes-governor-to-redirect-hurricane-rebuilding-funds-to-hurricane-impacted-counties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things did not slow down during the holidays over the shape of Hurricane Ike and Dolly rebuilding programs in Texas, but my blogging did. This update recounts what has been happening. The concerns we have been raising for the past two years came to a head as the State of Texas moved to request an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=2767&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the State of Texas must do to fix the Hurricane rebuilding plan (and what we plan to do to make sure it does)</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2009/11/23/what-the-state-of-texas-must-do-to-fix-the-hurricane-rebuilding-plan-and-what-we-plan-to-do-to-make-sure-it-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People have asked me what we want from the Texas CDBG Disaster Rebuilding Plan that we have criticized and that HUD has asked the Governor to revise. The complete answer lies in the extensive comments that we have submitted on repeated occasions to the State of Texas and in our complaints to HUD. Here is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=2663&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HUD denies Governor Perry&#8217;s Amended Recovery Plan</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2009/11/17/hud-denies-governor-perrys-amended-recovery-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wrivers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 10, HUD Assistant Secretary Mercedes Marquez issued a letter to Governor Rick Perry denying the State of Texas’s Amendment 1 of the Action Plan for CDBG Disaster Recovery Grantees. The proposed amendment would give the state $1.7 billion in supplemental CDBG funds for Hurricane Ike Recovery. Secretary Marquez cites the State&#8217;s proposed amendment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=2640&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HUD Rejects State of Texas CDBG Disaster Recovery Plan</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2009/11/16/hud-rejects-state-of-texas-cdbg-disaster-recovery-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUD has rejected the State of Texas Plan to spend $1.7 billion in CDBG disaster recovery funds for Hurricane Dolly and Ike recovery. In rejecting the plan HUD mirrors concerning that we have expressed over the past months. We applaud HUD&#8217;s decision. More analysis will follow. Read HUD&#8217;s letter to Governor Perry rejecting the Texas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=2617&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HUD should reject the State of Texas plan to misspend $3 billion in CDBG disaster recovery funds</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2009/09/25/hud-should-reject-the-state-of-texas-plan-to-misspend-3-billion-in-cdbg-disaster-recovery-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State of Texas is required to submit a plan amendment to HUD by September 30 outlining its final plan for spending the $3 billion in CDBG funds earmarked for Texas for disaster recovery from hurricanes Ike and Katrina. The state&#8217;s long road to producing this plan has been plagued by false starts and reversals. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&amp;blog=3400119&amp;post=2516&amp;subd=txlihis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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