This week, Houston homeowners spoke out about their experience with the state-run, FEMA-funded rapid repair program, called PREPS. One homeowner told the Houston Chronicle the help he got was hardly worth the money the state […]
More than 48 inches of rain inundated Beaumont after Hurricane Harvey struck last August, and the deluge impacted people across the area, across the income spectrum and of all races and ethnicities. The disaster response, […]
An editorial appears in Sunday’s New York Times on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. The editorial is a powerful indictment of the failure of the federal government to enforce […]
The right to fair housing stands out among civil rights laws as the one that has historically received the most bitter, sustained, post enactment resistance. Civil rights and fair housing attorney Micheal Allen laid out […]
Michael Allen on fair housing after 50 years from Texas Housers on Vimeo. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said. That arc […]
Austin City Council members Garza, Renteria, and Casar have announced a sweeping progressive fair and affordable housing agenda. Here is the outline of the proposal… HOUSING JUSTICE AGENDA Council Members Garza, Renteria, and Casar represent […]
The State of Texas is spending many millions of dollars in public funds on short-term housing for Harvey survivors. That is an important thing. Yet, the public is being denied access to the details about […]
