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 […]
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Rep. Anchia Files Bill Removing Legislative Letters from Housing Tax Credit Scoring
February 8, 2013 
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In a previous blog post here at Texas Housers, we presented an analysis showing that the letters written by Texas State Representatives and Senators in 2011 regarding the development of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Housing in the state had the effect of steering this housing to lower income, higher poverty areas of the state. […]
Read more The ‘Whitest town in North Texas’ fights to keep it that way
February 27, 2012 Comments Off
This might just be the ideal place to film a remake of “Birth Of A Nation,” D.W. Griffith’s silent film extolling the KKK. Proud of its designation as a “film friendly community” by the Texas Film Commission, the Dallas suburb of Sunnyvale is not extending a friendly spirit toward low income people and African American […]
Read more Effect of Elected Official Letters on the 2011 LIHTC Round
July 1, 2011 3 Comments
Abstract: Letters written by Texas State Representatives and Senators regarding the development of low income housing in the state had the effect of moving development to lower income, higher poverty areas of the state.
Read more Feds Sue Wisconsin town for NIMBY Opposition to LIHTC Development
June 24, 2011 1 Comment
Its been a busy week at the Justice Department on the fair housing front. After yesterday’s legal action petitioning to join Disability Rights Texas’s lawsuit against the state for segregating developmentally disabled Texans in nursing homes, the today the DOJ filed suit against a Wisconsin town for opposing a Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) […]
Read more State Rep Riddle says she wants no low-income housing in her district
June 14, 2011 1 Comment
To appreciate the fair housing problem in Texas just watch this video. Back in February, at a hearing on the budget for the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), Texas State Representative Debbie Riddle, House District 150, which comprises much of northwest Harris County (51% Anglo. per capita income $25,272, 28% renters), asked Mike […]
Read moreIt’s NIMBY Time…Again
April 6, 2011 2 Comments
“We realize that not all residents of an affordable housing development will, by default, be criminals. However, we are also not ignorant to the fact, which is supported by real statistics, that many criminals (especially violent criminals, drug-related criminals, and sex-offenders) tend to come from a lower socio-economic class. […] We feel that in this […]
Read moreStudy: Leading Subsidized Housing Program in Texas Limits Economic Opportunity of the Poor
December 13, 2010 1 Comment
New report finds that Low Income Housing Tax Credit housing is more likely than other rental housing to be built in low-income, predominantly minority neighborhoods. Austin, TX – The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, the #1 producer of affordable rental housing in Texas, concentrates its new developments in low-opportunity neighborhoods, according to a […]
Read moreTxLIHIS Comments on Proposed 2011 QAP
October 28, 2010 2 Comments
October 23, 2010 Ms. Robbye Meyer Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs P.O. Box 13941 Austin, TX 78711-3941 RE: Comments on the proposed 2011 Texas Qualified Allocation Plan Dear Ms. Meyer: We offer these recommendations regarding the Draft 2011 State of Texas Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) for allocation of Low Income Housing Tax Credits […]
Read moreNIMBYism in Real Time
October 21, 2010 Comments Off
“Studies show it [NIMBYism] has contributed to projects being clustered in less affluent areas with high concentrations of minorities, such as East Austin, while relatively wealthy and well-organized neighborhoods see few if any such projects.” –Austin American Statesman, 10/16/10 Just a few days after the Austin American Statesman discussion of the general impact of NIMBYism […]
Read more“Neighborhood” letters and Tax Credit Properties
October 18, 2010 Comments Off
Eric Dexheimer at that Statesman has an extensive article examining neighborhood groups and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program. The article examines groups created by investors for the purpose of writing support letters for developments, as well as how the state’s scoring of neighborhood letter’s impacts the program by giving power to NIMBY interests. […]
Read moreIt is not a proposal to build a toxic waste dump for Pete’s sake!
July 12, 2009 Comments Off
I came across this sign today in Austin providing a “public notice” regarding an application to build housing for the elderly. The absurdity of the extent to which state law in Texas requires notification of the public regarding proposed housing developments utilizing low income housing tax credits struck me as absurd. I have pointed out […]
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