Pictured above, Professors Walt Peacock and Shannon Van Zandt of the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction and Recover Center at a field trip of the Texas Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee (chaired by Senator Eddie Lucio) to […]
Texas Housers is teaming up with attorneys from Texas RioGrande Legal Aid to produce a series of short videos providing the advice of legal services attorneys familiar with all aspects of disaster recovery. A web […]
Our Houston co-director, Chrishelle Palay has worked disaster recovery before and has worked with low-income communities so that they have a voice in recovery after Hurricane Ike. She’s a devoted housing advocate and says Harvey […]
(This photo above is a typical open drainage ditch in the African-American Houston Sunnyside neighborhood before Hurricane Harvey.) The City of Houston has known for several years that neighborhoods of color were inadequately protected from […]
This piece was written for Texas Housers by Michael Arria. The Texas Legislature has spent much of this summer’s special session attempting to pass a new iteration of the “bathroom bill,” SB 3, to prevent […]
The Trump administration’s proposed 2018 budget cuts for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would hit Texas hard. The state stands to lose an estimated $494 million in federal housing funds, impacting more […]
The CodeNEXT Density Bonus is a remarkable opportunity to achieve greater ethnic, racial and economic diversity and integration in Austin. If implemented correctly, the program has the potential to put affordable units on the ground both […]
