For some, Hurricane Harvey is now a distant, if not unpleasant, memory. Looking back on 2017, many Texas families will recall the evacuations, the news footage of dramatic rescues, the mud-filled first floors, and the […]
The 2018 Texas Houser Award honorees are shifting paradigms and power in their daily work for community empowerment and housing justice, and yesterday, nearly 100 community advocates, supporters and the Texas Housers staff honored their […]
One year since Hurricane Maria made landfall, residents and advocates have been rebuilding and preparing themselves for the distribution of federal recovery funds. Espacios Abiertos, a nonprofit focused on strengthening civic engagement for communities in […]
Only one in four people who qualify for rental assistance in this country receive it. It’s no wonder that getting a housing voucher that will pay for a significant portion of rent after waiting for […]
Colonia residents in Hidalgo County have experienced far too much flooding and darkness, the dangerous symptoms of poorly-planned subdivisions where developers didn’t have much stake or responsibility to provide adequate infrastructure for residents to live […]
On November 12, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service will honor two outstanding individuals and one dynamic grassroots group at the 2018 Texas Houser Awards. The awards recognize those committed to the cause of housing […]
(Photo: A lineman checks on a downed powerlines in Port Arthur) In the last blog on Port Arthur, we predicted that Texas counties and cities, overwhelmed after a disaster as large and as costly as […]
