A Little Louder Episode 51: Housers and Allies at the Capitol (Part 1)
This supersized episode of A Little Louder features two special guests to talk about bills affecting low-income households at the 88th session of the Texas Legislature. Eric Samuels, President and CEO...
View ArticleThe Gap 2023 shows that Texas’ affordable housing shortage is among the...
The lack of affordable housing for low-income households in our state is a crisis that we’ve been fighting to repair for years. The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s latest edition of The Gap...
View ArticleA Little Louder Episode 52: From Eviction Courts to the Capitol (Part 2)
A Little Louder is back to talk about the latest in housing from the 88th Session. Texas Housers has been tracking a number of specific bills at the 2023 Texas Legislature that directly impact those...
View Article‘An Eviction Crisis In Texas’ summarizes what low-income renters face in a...
During the pandemic, rental assistance programs and temporary protections stabilized renter households facing economic challenges in our state. However, as soon as these resources disappeared, eviction...
View ArticleA Little Louder Episode 53: Midway Update at the 88th Session
In this halftime report from the 88th Session of the Texas Legislature, or perhaps a little later in the game, Texas Housers’ research director Ben Martin joins A Little Louder to provide updates on...
View ArticleTenant Bill of Rights in San Antonio makes big first step with new resolution
Tenants’ rights in Texas are in an exciting stage. We are advancing policies alongside community-led initiatives, everywhere from cities like Houston with Right To Counsel, to statewide efforts at the...
View ArticleOut Of Reach 2023 outlines the need for permanent federal resources to combat...
The saying goes that everything is bigger in Texas, and in housing that worn cliché still rings true. Texas is home to nearly 4 million renters, the 2nd largest population of renters in a single state....
View ArticleIn Harris County, many changes are needed until all eviction courts operate...
Texas renters are still fighting an uphill battle for housing stability. Across the state, we continue to see increasing rent rates, shrinking expendable incomes due to inflation and stagnant wages,...
View ArticleThe Texas Supreme Court must extend its Emergency Order while renters are...
Texas Housers believes that in order to stabilize tenants, we must build affordable housing, pass tenant protections, invest in eviction diversion programs, and reform eviction courts to assure tenants...
View ArticleLow-Income Housing at the 88th Texas Legislature in Review
The 88th Texas Legislature was a consequential one for low-income housing. Lawmakers faced an unprecedented crisis of housing unaffordability and instability going into the session, but were also...
View ArticlePublic Facility Corporations were majorly reformed in the 88th Texas...
Public Facility Corporations, or PFCs, are an important but complex new tool for producing affordable multifamily rental housing in Texas. HB 2071, which passed during Texas’ 88th Legislative Session...
View ArticleWithout reliable and secure ways to report poor living conditions, Section 8...
This blog is the first entry in a three part series chronicling the efforts and struggles of residents attempting to improve their living conditions in Section 8 housing at Houston’s Coppertree Village...
View ArticleHUD’s rules are intended to protect tenants in need. At Coppertree, tenants...
This blog is the second entry in a three part series chronicling the efforts and struggles of residents attempting to improve their living conditions in Section 8 housing at Houston’s Coppertree...
View ArticleTemporary Justices of the Peace can have long lasting effects in Eviction...
Earlier this month, I visited my 15th justice of the peace court in Harris County within the last two months. My pursuit of understanding the current landscape of eviction hearings has taken me many...
View ArticleRead our report ‘Renters, Air Conditioning, and Extreme Heat in Texas’
There is no question that summer 2023 contained one of the worst heatwaves that Texans have ever suffered through. News story after news story reported that renters were particularly vulnerable in the...
View ArticleA Little Louder Episode 58: How Texas renters live under extreme heat
High summer temperatures in the Lone Star State are a regular occurrence. However, in recent years, extreme heat has grown more dangerous, with 2023 being the second hottest summer on record. With this...
View ArticleTexas quietly enabled a revolutionary pre-disaster preparedness plan. Cities...
In 2018, Texas Housers and partner organizations urged the Texas Legislature to pass S.B. 289, a bill that allows local jurisdictions to write and submit their own pre-disaster housing recovery plans....
View ArticleTexas Housers’ new Bexar County Eviction Case Dashboard explores rising...
Created by Mia Loseff and Erin Hahn Texas Housers has officially launched our Bexar County Eviction Case dashboard, which tracks evictions filed in Bexar County over the course of recent years. Similar...
View ArticleIn its new class, Texas Housers’ Houser Academy forges paths to connect local...
In a state as large as Texas, housing advocacy work can often wind up locally isolated. Outside of statewide work like the Texas Legislature, organizing energy can be difficult to sustain across cities...
View ArticleTxDOT’s first ‘Progress Report’ on I-45 Voluntary Resolution Agreement worthy...
The lane expansion of I-45 in Houston has been a plan fraught with racism, classism, and environmental hazards, much like the decades’ long history of highway expansion. In order to field the many...
View ArticleFederal housing tax credits don’t always serve those who need them most....
Texas Housers is pleased to announce the release of “How to Improve Housing Tax Credits for Low Income Texans: 2024 QAP Report”, a new report on Texas’ Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program....
View ArticleHUD’s voucher programs can’t truly help those they serve without necessary...
In our previous blog covering the Southeast Tenant Information Organization (SETIO), the tenant group formed from residents at Cabo San Lucas apartments and the Redford apartments in Houston, we...
View ArticleWhen TDHCA addresses NIMBYism this year, they must focus on solutions that...
Every five years, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) must update their Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI). The AI is a process that recipients of US...
View ArticleA Little Louder Episode 60: Tenant’s Rights From Nepal To Denton
While most folks in the housing justice community have a strong idea of how tenant’s rights and evictions shape our broader world, Andrew Nelson, Associate Professor for Department of Anthropology at...
View ArticleWhen property ownership can hide their identity in LLCs, bad actors thrive...
Over the past six months, Texas Housers has spotlighted the stories of uninhabitable conditions and mass evictions at Cabo San Lucas apartments in Houston and the ensuing barriers tenants faced to...
View ArticleJoin Texas Housers, leaders, and experts on Feb. 23 for our Energy Equity and...
Extreme heat in the summer and erratic cold in the winter are both getting worse in Texas. Renters lack some basic legal protections for access to adequate temperature control. Legal and administrative...
View ArticleWatch Texas Housers’‘Energy Equity and Housing’ Panel Livestream Replay!
Texas Housers focused on the impact of energy inequity for low-income households in summer 2023, when Texas faced one of the most extreme heat waves on record. We heard directly from renters and...
View ArticleOne year later, can justice be served in 60 seconds?
Almost one year ago, Texas Housers’ Southeast Texas regional director Julia Orduña wrote about her experiences from the scene of Harris County Justice of the Peace Court 5.1 on Valentine’s Day 2023....
View ArticleA Little Louder Episode 61: Unmasking Ownership at Problem Properties
Over the past six months, Texas Housers has spotlighted the stories of uninhabitable conditions and mass evictions at Cabo San Lucas apartments in Houston and the ensuing barriers tenants faced to...
View ArticleThe Gap 2024 highlights the deep shortage of affordable housing in Texas and...
The need for affordable housing is as urgent of an issue as it has been in many years. In Texas, we are experiencing this crisis even more acutely than the rest of the nation, with our most vulnerable...
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