Last winter TXLIHIS released “USDA Rural Housing Service in Texas: Turning Away from the Poor,” a report detailing how in 2009 Texas failed to take advantage of over $14 million in subsidized low-income mortgage loans. These loans are allocated to the state by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Housing Service under the [...]
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Tag Archives: Texas Housing Trust Fund
TDHCA Sunset Recommendation #5: Clarify regional allocation formula statute
April 20, 2010
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As previously discussed here at Texas Housers, TDHCA is currently undergoing Sunset Review. We are presenting recommendations for ways to improve TDHCA that have been endorsed by a broad range of stakeholders in TDHCA’s activities. Issue: The Regional Allocation Formula (RAF), as it relates to the Housing Trust Fund (HTF), needs to be clarified to [...]
Read moreBrownsville CDC director discusses recent changes in border low-income housing and colonias
June 26, 2009
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Homebuyers buying new houses through a CDC in Brownsville, Texas have an average income of $19,000. Low-income border families, who a decade ago would have bought lots and built homes through their own labor in a colonia, have lately been buying homes from many of the former colonia developers. Lately, these former colonia developers have [...]
Read moreSummary of legislative action on Texas housing trust fund
June 1, 2009
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John Henneberger note: Kristin Carlisle in our office coordinated efforts on behalf of the Housing Texas coalition to gain a dedicated funding source and increase the money available for the Texas housing trust fund. Here is Kristin’s summary of the results of the coalition’s efforts. I’ll have more to say about this in future postings. [...]
Read moreTexas realtors association oppose housing trust fund bill
March 19, 2009
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A broad cross-section of Texans supporting the expansion of state funding for the Texas Housing Trust Fund testified on the half of a bill by Senator Royce West at the Texas Capitol yesterday. Senator West’s bill would establish a $10 fee to be collected for each real estate document filed in Texas with a county [...]
Read moreHousing Texas, TACDC, others to coordinate push for housing trust fund
February 20, 2009
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Housing Texas, the Texas Association of Community Development Corporations and other affordable housing advocates and providers plan to coordinate visits to the offices of members of the Texas Legislature about the Texas Housing Trust Fund. The coordinated effort will take place March 17. For more infomration conatct TACDC at 512-916-0508 or Housing Texas at 512-477-8910 [...]
Read moreTwo Texas Senate bills seek to endow housing trust with $40 million per year
February 20, 2009
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In response to requests by housing advocates who came together two weeks ago to support a dedicated fee bill to endow the Texas Housing Trust Fund with $40 million per year, two such bills have been filed by Texas Senators. Senator Eddie Lucio (D) – Brownsville filed SB 934 which would endow the housing trust [...]
Read moreTexas Senate to hear request for additional housing trust funds
February 13, 2009
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The Texas Senate Finance Committee will consider the budget of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) on Monday. One of the most important items the committee will consider is a request by the TDHCA for an appropriation of $20 million each year for the next two years for the Texas housing trust [...]
Read moreTexas housing community calls of Legislature to provide $40 million per year for the Texas Housing Trust Fund
February 7, 2009
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This week a group of about 100 people concerned with affordable housing for low income families met in Austin to endorse a dedicated revenue source to provide $40 million per year for the Texas Housing Trust Fund. The group resolved to support the request of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs to the [...]
Read moreLet’s resolve to win a serious housing trust fund for Texas
January 5, 2009
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TxLIHIS is ringing in the New Year with a long list of resolutions – from ensuring that low-income hurricane survivors have a shot at sustainable housing recovery, to protecting the homes of lower income families from foreclosure. Chief among our resolutions is finally securing a dedicated revenue source for the Housing Trust Fund- Texas’ only [...]
Read moreMy recommendations for dealing with the low-income homeownership problems in Texas
October 9, 2008
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I was invited to testify today before the Texas Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee on the status of state programs to provide owner-occupied housing for low income families. Here is my testimony. Testimony of John Henneberger, co-director before the Texas Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee on the committee interim housing charges October 8, 2008 On the behalf [...]
Read moreTexas Senate committee hears strong support for Texas Housing Trust Fund
August 17, 2008
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A chorus of voices spoke up for an increase in the Texas Housing Trust Fund in testimony this week before the Texas Senate International Relations and Trade Committee in Austin. The committee is charged with reporting on solutions to the state’s unmet rural housing needs. The hearing can be viewed by clicking the image below. [...]
Read moreLt. Governor Dewhurst pledges to “double or triple” Texas Housing Trust Fund
July 29, 2008
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Speaking before the annual Texas Housing Conference Monday, Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst pledged that the Texas Legislature would double or triple the Texas Housing Trust Fund. Last session the Lt. Governor, at the urging of Senator Eddie Lucio and members of Housing Texas, led the successful effort to secure an added $5.8 million per [...]
Read moreEverything is bigger in Texas – except our housing trust fund
June 26, 2008
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Looking over the latest report from Mary Brook’s Housing Trust Fund Project at the Center for Community Change makes me feel ashamed. The Texas Housing Trust Fund ranks among the poorest funded in the country. But this might change next tear because the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs has proposed and “exceptional item” [...]
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Bo McCarver’s housing news clips for May
- Mitt Romney at private fundraiser: I might eliminate HUD – The Washington Post
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Bo’s housing news clips: Study finds zoning segregates lower-income students in lower-scoring schools.
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Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months
- Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas – NYTimes.com
