Texas Housers [Texas Low Income Housing Information Service]

“There have been homes that were built before Beryl with this DR money, who got significant damage during the hurricane... So, to say that we are building resilient homes in the city of Houston is not true entirely.” - Julia Ordu?a, Texas Housers' SE Texas Regional Director From Houston Landing: https://lnkd.in/gDxjrD_m

"Some 74 percent of white Americans own their own homes compared with just 46 percent of Black Americans. That 28-point gap is actually wider than it was in 1960 — when housing discrimination was still legal." https://lnkd.in/gVyZf4NE

Texas Housers’ Harris County eviction mapping database explores the landscape of eviction in Houston - Texas Housers has officially launched our Harris County eviction mapping tool, with the most recent eviction data available from 2023. The interactive tool allows users to identify the neighborhoods, as well as individual properties, that received the most eviction filings in 2023. Intended to help elected officials, service providers, and housing advocates understand where the greatest need for anti-eviction resources exists in Harris County, the tool now includes map layers that summarize eviction filings by Super Neighborhoods, School Districts, City Council Districts, County Commissioner Districts and more. With today’s release of the Harris County Eviction Case Dashboard, we share the […] https://lnkd.in/gdgUn7tv

The Houston Housing Authority has a new President & CEO. Here are five commitments Jamie Bryant must make to get the agency back on track. - Last year, the president and CEO of the Houston Housing Authority (HHA), David Northern Sr., stepped down from his position amid an investigation into his job performance by the HHA Board of Commissioners. The HHA has pledged that this transition in organizational leadership will have minimal impacts for residents at HHA’s mixed income and public housing properties. Now, the incoming HHA President and CEO, Jamie Bryant, has an opportunity reset HHA operations and finally get back to the basic business of serving Houston’s lowest-income residents well From the announcement of a voucher freeze earlier in the year, several reports of […] https://lnkd.in/dhazY9cY

HOUSTON: We are finally bringing Razing Liberty Square to H-Town on 2/22! Come and join us alongside Lone Star Legal Aid, Houston Young Lawyers Association, Our Afrikan Family,?StopTxDOTI45,?CCPPI, Beck Redden and many more to screen this powerful documentary and learn about how Houston ties into climate justice, public housing and so much more. The event following the film also will host a legal aid outreach for those who have questions about housing. Join us THIS SATURDAY, 2/22 at 2pm. RSVP using the QR code or the Link In Bio. See you there! https://lnkd.in/gfGH98F6

With Houston Housing Authority's new president and CEO Jamie Bryant, there is a prime opportunity to repair the many issues we've heard from HHA tenants. Here are five commitments that Bryant could make right away to have a positive impact. https://lnkd.in/gbw4Shmu

A Little Louder Episode 71: Back to the Capitol for the 89th Texas Legislature - Our first episode of 2025 is a running start right into the 89th Session of the Texas Legislature and there is much ground to cover! On this episode, research director Ben Martin joins the show to talk about Texas Housers’ major focuses for housing this session, what bills are grabbing our attention right away, and how you can get involved as well. For more information on what Texas Housers is tracking, you can visit??texashousers.org/lege25??for everything on housing at the 89th Texas Legislature. If you’d like to learn about what our main priorities are at the 89th Session of the Texas […] https://lnkd.in/dYu7MqEa

Track the affordability needs of every Texas state legislative district with our new tool - Texas Housers is pleased to announce the release of our Texas Legislative Housing Profiles, a new tool to help the public and stakeholders better understand the housing affordability needs and characteristics of state legislative districts.? This tool is a nonpartisan resource intended to provide useful information to inform state housing policy discussions.? Although it is well established that across Texas the households that experience the greatest housing cost burden are low-income renter households, there has not until now been a tool that clarifies how this plays out at the state legislative district level. Our new tool allows any user to […] https://lnkd.in/dpbHCda3

Do you want to know what housing affordability is like in your exact Texas House or Senate District? Now you can with the simple click of a button! Check out the newly released Texas Legislative District Tool from Texas Housers right now. #TxLege https://lnkd.in/gfKUKUEQ

GLO Commissioner Dawn Buckingham makes false claims in defense of decisions that left a million Texans at risk from disasters - Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham published a press release as a defense of last week’s finding from HUD that the Texas General Land Office (GLO) intentionally discriminated in the distribution of $1 billion in disaster mitigation funding, which resulted in half a million Texans of color and over a million Texans overall going unserved, mostly in Houston and Harris County. This statement by GLO Commissioner Buckingham is riddled with falsehoods about the plain facts regarding their refusal to address this civil rights violation. Here is our full statement in response to Commissioner Buckingham’s comments: Commissioner Buckingham used an official […] https://lnkd.in/g59qybXJ