This piece originally ran as a column in The Monitor on June 25. For decades the State of Texas looked the other way while developers created colonias with no regard for resident services or safety. Then […]
The regular session of the 2017 Texas Legislature ended on May 29, and most housing-related legislation failed to advance through both chambers before the deadlines (you can find our complete list here). Unfortunately, the few housing bills […]
Follow housing issues at the Texas Legislature and our full bill tracker here. Texas’ major cities face a housing affordability crisis – and the state government keeps taking away their tools to solve it. Affordable housing is […]
When I went to conferences in the past, I often felt like I needed to explain fair housing to my fellow planners. But things have changed – at this year’s American Planning Association National Planning Conference, […]
This article originally ran on Neta, a bilingual multimedia platform based in the Rio Grande Valley where I am a staff content creator, and is reprinted here with permission and some changes. The Donna Reservoir and […]
Follow housing issues at the Texas Legislature and our full bill tracker here. We’ve reached a critical point in the state legislative session, when the fate of most bills in the House of Representatives is becoming […]
I testified at a hearing of the Texas House of Representatives Urban Affairs Committee on May 2, speaking against HB 1792 by Rep. Valoree Swanson – a bill our co-director has called “perhaps the most expansive NIMBY legislation ever […]
