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	<title>Texas housers &#187; Substandard housing</title>
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		<title>Homeowners rebuilding from Hurricane Ike have basically no consumer protection in Texas</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2008/10/18/homeowners-rebuilding-from-hurricane-ike-have-no-consumer-protections-in-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2008/10/18/homeowners-rebuilding-from-hurricane-ike-have-no-consumer-protections-in-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Mayor Bill White threw in the towel this week, ending his modest effort to provide rudimentary consumer protections to Houston homeowners who must hire contractors to repair their homes damaged by Hurricane Ike. White proposed an ordnance that would have required all contractors doing work in Houston to register with the city.  The proposal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=1186&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revitalizing nuisance properties to be explored at Dallas meeting</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2008/09/11/revitalizing-nuisance-properties-to-be-explored-at-dallas-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have discussed the problem of getting cities to take action on abandoned and derelict properties in low income neighborhoods.  Senator Royce West&#8217;s Intergovernmental Relations Committee is working on an initiative to address this problem. It is thus timely that a conference of the topic is coming up September 20 in Dallas. Revitalizing Nuisance Properties [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=953&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Focusing on the big picture of housing assistance</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2008/08/04/focusing-on-the-big-picture-of-subsidized-housing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s take a step back and focus on the big picture of housing assistance using this chart I have prepared based on data in a recent HUD research report. Since it is 107 degrees outside today I decided to stay in and read the latest HUD report and chart some of the data to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=505&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When cities do not act, let&#8217;s give communities the power to take over abandoned properties</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2008/08/03/when-cities-dont-act-give-communities-the-power-to-take-over-substandard-properties/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2008/08/03/when-cities-dont-act-give-communities-the-power-to-take-over-substandard-properties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Substandard housing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The problem posed by abandoned, derelict housing where cities have failed to follow through on code violations extends beyond multifamily housing to include single family homes. The Texas Legislature needs to act to give community organizations the power to clean up neighborhoods when cities fail to act. Back on July 30 I blogged about a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=487&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">New Habitat for Humanity home next door to condemned house.</media:title>
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		<title>It is too late for two children but now is the time for Houston to act on slum apartments</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2008/07/18/it-is-too-late-for-two-children-but-now-is-the-time-for-houston-to-act-on-slum-apartments/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2008/07/18/it-is-too-late-for-two-children-but-now-is-the-time-for-houston-to-act-on-slum-apartments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Substandard apartments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened again last night. More kids were hurt, this time killed, in the slum apartments the city of Houston tolerates in the Southwest section of the city. It should not have happened.  The City of Houston has long known about the deplorable living conditions in this area.  The Houston Chronicle has splashed it over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=173&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A staircase fell at a Houston apartment complex killing two children.</media:title>
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		<title>The voice of consumers is missing in judging subsidized housing</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2008/07/06/the-voice-of-consumers-is-missing-in-rating-affordable-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2008/07/06/the-voice-of-consumers-is-missing-in-rating-affordable-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low income tenants are seldom consulted about the quality of housing that the government builds for them. I have long thought this to be a serious flaw in affordable housing. Without the active involvement of consumers how can we expect the housing to be designed to meet their needs?  Without asking the tenants, how can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=117&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curbing substandard housing in rural Texas</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2008/06/20/recommendations-to-curb-substandard-housing-in-rural-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2008/06/20/recommendations-to-curb-substandard-housing-in-rural-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Building codes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch John Henneberger&#8217;s testimony before the Texas Seante International Relations and Trade Committee on substandard rural housing.  Read my written testimony presented to the committee. On June 17 I presented invited testimony before the Texas Senate Committee on International Relations and Trade on the committee interim charge: Review state and local policies relating to development [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=76&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disgraceful indifference to substandard conditions in Houston</title>
		<link>http://texashousers.net/2008/06/17/disgraceful-indifference-to-substandard-conditions-by-houston-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://texashousers.net/2008/06/17/disgraceful-indifference-to-substandard-conditions-by-houston-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henneberger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill White]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an outstanding piece of investigative journalism Houston Chronicle staff writers Matt Stiles, Mike Snyder and Julio Cortez have exposed the astounding indifference of the City of Houston and the city&#8217;s political leadership toward substandard apartments in the city. To read this story headlined &#8220;Operators of squalid apartments ignore the law to prey on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texashousers.net&#038;blog=3400119&#038;post=66&#038;subd=txlihis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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