Bo McCarver’s housing news clips posted on this blog this week has a story from the AP headlined, “Early morning stampede for hard-to-get vouchers.” It is a sad commentary about the unmet need for affordable housing on the part of people with low-incomes and the way poor people are treated by some public housing authorities. […]
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Tag Archives: Section 8
Dallas pregnant woman reportedly trampled, others injured in rush for housing vouchers
July 21, 2011 
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Section 8 Waitlists In Texas
June 1, 2011 1 Comment
Previously here at Texas Houser’s, we noted the Dallas Housing Authority lost 13,000 applications to its Section 8 program. Under the Section 8 program, officially termed the “Housing Choice Voucher Program,” families may apply to receive vouchers to help them pay a percentage or portion of their rent. Dallas reopened its Section 8 waitlist for […]
Read moreDallas Housing Vouchers – Extreme Need and Error
April 7, 2011 3 Comments
Yesterday The Dallas Housing Authority opened its waiting list for its Housing Choice Voucher program for the first time in five years. These vouchers are also known as “Section 8″ vouchers. The Dallas Morning News reports that the Dallas Housing Authority received over 13,000 applications in a single day– –and lost them all. The Dallas […]
Read moreGovernment housing programs can and do help the poorest families in Texas
July 20, 2009 6 Comments
I blogged last week about the need for housing programs to recognize the housing needs of families well below 30 percent of the area median income and suggested a new category of housing need called “below poverty income.” In response I received a question this morning that I thought deserved to be answered here. The […]
Read moreGovernor Perry must act to let hurricane victims move into apartments
December 29, 2008 1 Comment
More than half of 5,000 Galveston County families displaced by Hurricane Ike and given federal vouchers to rent homes or apartments are still living in hotels or with relatives, officials have said. The reason: many apartment managers and owners in a tight housing market prefer not to go to the extra effort to handle housing […]
Read moreNorth Texas emerges as ground zero in newly energized fight against racial housing segregation
November 22, 2008 Comments Off
North Texas is becoming ground zero in the fight against residential racial segregation. This thanks to the experienced and increasingly aggressive advocacy of civil rights attorney Michael Daniel and Inclusive Communities Project director Betsy Julian. Consider what these two, who share offices in downtown Dallas, have done in recent weeks: Filed a federal lawsuit against […]
Read moreCorrecting Houston’s extreme shortage of government subsidized housing should be top priority
November 10, 2008 Comments Off
Traditionally public and Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers play a major role in providing affordable housing within major US cities. This is not the case in Houston however. In excess of 60 percent of the affordable housing stock in Houston is privately owned unsubsidized housing. Only about 10 percent is Section 8 subsidized and less […]
Read moreReporter alleges Section 8 tenant crime wave, but where is the evidence?
August 10, 2008 1 Comment
The elite media has decided to focus on whether Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders are bringing crime to suburban neighborhoods. Instead of bringing to light the millions of poor families living in deplorable conditions because they cannot afford decent housing, instead of exposing slumlord exploitation of the poor, instead of chronicling the lives of […]
Read moreUnraveling the mystery of 500 unused Dallas Section 8 vouchers
July 4, 2008 15 Comments
The Dallas Morning News ran a story by Kim Horner on June 23 about 500 Section 8 vouchers that have gone unused. Since the Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) has more than 8,000 families on the waiting list and closed the waiting list for new applications four years ago I wondered what on earth was going […]
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