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We want disaster recovery to be fair and just. Here’s a good place to start.

Over the past 10 years, Texas Housers and our legal and organizing partners have advocated equitable recovery through four major...

Report: Did Texas reduce government-funded segregation in tax credit housing?

In 2013, the State of Texas changed its scoring criteria for applications for Low Income Housing Tax Credits, in response to...

Read the Sunnyside Neighborhood Plan, a community-developed blueprint for change in Houston

For the past several months, residents of the Sunnyside neighborhood in south Houston have been developing a comprehensive plan to...

Homeowners demand state officials fix disaster recovery partial home repair program

  • by Christina Rosales
  • Posted on April 19, 2018April 19, 2018
  • Harvey Recovery

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 […]

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Field Notes: An unequal response to disaster in Beaumont

  • by jtharechmak
  • Posted on April 18, 2018
  • Harvey Recovery

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, […]

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NYT editorial on federal government’s failure to prevent states and cities from using federal dollars to perpetuate segregation

  • by John Henneberger
  • Posted on April 7, 2018
  • Uncategorized

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 […]

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Who has the right to live here? Austin’s fifty year fight over fair housing

  • by Karen Paup
  • Posted on April 5, 2018April 5, 2018
  • Local issues

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 […]

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HUD is strangling fair housing progress. Advocates must march on toward just and inclusive communities.

  • by Christina Rosales
  • Posted on April 4, 2018
  • National issues

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 […]

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Sweeping new fair and affordable housing proposed by three Austin City Council members

  • by John Henneberger
  • Posted on April 4, 2018
  • Local issues

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 […]

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Texas Housers seeks disclosure of disaster housing program data maintained by State of Texas

  • by Christina Rosales
  • Posted on April 3, 2018April 4, 2018
  • Harvey Recovery

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 […]

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On a recent trip to San Diego, our research director Charlie Duncan spotted some powerful street art in a community facing gentrification and environmental injustice.
I'm anticipating big new #FairHousing enforcement actions in Houston after today's meeting of fair housing enforcement experts Daniel Bustamante, Bill Tisdale and Fred Freiberg
TxLIHIS Rio Grande Valley co-director Josué Ramírez and ARISE organizer Andrea Landeros give a presentation on our drainage campaign to the Sierra Club's mixer in McAllen last night
Chrishelle Palay @texashousers is talking about #FairHousing problems facing Houston at Rice Kinder Institute event
Veteran community organizer Lourdes Zamarron shares pointers with @TexasHousers organizer Ezenachi Rasidi
Josué speaks to LUCHA leaders at a monthly training. Supporting people to engage in the democratic process to address neighborhood inequality is our most important and proudest job.
How do apartments like this, with terrible sewage problems, pass Section 8 inspections in Houston and receive $900+ in monthly government rent subsidy?
Why is it that 8 1/2 years after Hurricane Ike almost all the rebuilding projects are finally complete... except for rebuilding the public housing in Galveston? Do you think it could have something to do who the people are who depend on public housing and the prejudice against them by the people in charge of the recovery? I do.
When I'm talking to my co-workers and I look up and see this, I gotta figure I'm not exactly grabbing their attention.
Juanita Valdez-Cox and our friends at LUPE host a Congressional delegation looking into immigration and border wall issues.

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