Texas Housers [Texas Low Income Housing Information Service]

A Big Win for Tenant Stability in Texas: Eviction Prevention Plans in Affordable Housing - The economic hardships spurred by the pandemic revealed the harmful impacts of evictions to the wider public. While many individuals and organizations have worked for years to remedy these issues for our most vulnerable renter households, advocates – including Texas Housers – made huge progress in December 2024 by successfully working with Texas’ state housing agency to establish incentives for Eviction Prevention Plans for hundreds of thousands of subsidized rental units.  The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program is responsible for creating more affordable rental units than any other source of federal funding. The state property inventory shows that more than […] https://lnkd.in/giUw2uRZ

We are encouraged to see that eviction protection plans will be added as a points incentive for the QAP. This will factor in to thousands of affordable housing units going forward! Details on our blog. https://lnkd.in/giUw2uRZ

Looking to 2025, Texas Housers is focusing on these housing issues at the 89th Texas Legislature - Today, Texas Housers announces our legislative priorities for the 89th Texas Legislature, which begins January 14th, 2025. Housing will be a central issue at the Capitol this spring. Texas Housers supports reforms that would dramatically improve housing for Texas’ most cost burdened, low-income residents. Low-income Texans face multiple overlapping crises on the issue of housing. More and more, Texans cannot afford their homes, and this cost burden is heavily concentrated among lowest-income households and renters. Tenant protections in Texas have been stripped back to next to nothing, placing renters in unstable situations and increasing the risk of homelessness. Texas’ affordable […] https://lnkd.in/g6RyDEjB

“If you're rolling the dice on participating in a real estate deal and your deal loses, it is not the role of the public sector to bail you out,” [Housers' Ben] Martin said. “This is a blatant misuse of this tool.” https://lnkd.in/eNBnqUiS

“Whether the employees acted on their own discretion and whether that discretion was in good faith, it’s still concerning to see employees circumventing policies put in place by (the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) for good reason – which is to put guardrails in place.” - Taylor Laredo, Housers' Community Navigator https://lnkd.in/eznAzN4R

Yes! Do not allow these groups fully invested in accelerating the eviction process even quicker (and more unfairly) to promote the idea of "squatters" overrunning rental units. It is simply not happening like this. Read more in San Antonio Express-News: https://lnkd.in/gDWtXa77

More than 24,000 eviction cases were filed in Bexar County last year, and the number of households evicted continued to rise above pre-pandemic levels, local data shows. We spoke with Axios about our mapping tool and what the data tells us at the link below. https://lnkd.in/e7xxFKw6

Texas Housers’ Bexar County eviction mapping tool explores the landscape of eviction in San Antonio - Texas Housers has officially re-launched our Bexar County eviction mapping tool, with updated eviction data 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 Bexar County, the tool now includes map layers that summarize eviction filings by City Council Districts, Justice of the Peace Precincts, and Independent School Districts. With today’s release of the Bexar County Eviction Case Dashboard, we share the following insights: Research […] https://lnkd.in/gAgKb7fR

It's #GivingTuesday and we're so excited to share with all of you today how Texas Housers is working to ensure that housing is fair, affordable and equitable in our state! Here's a brief intro on how we're doing that and you can learn more about this work on our website. https://lnkd.in/dj2F_USB

The 2024 Houser Awards honored advocates who are meeting this urgent moment for low-income households - On November 12, Austin’s Zilker Clubhouse was packed with attendees for our 2024 Houser Awards. It was a great honor to showcase the work of fierce advocates Kayla Miranda, Tanya Lavelle, and the Hon. Steve Duble and Hon. Dolores Lozano. These individuals each are effecting change in their own way, making Texas a better place to call home for low-income households. The support in the room for each of these individuals was palpable. The change they are creating is personal, not simply an occupation. For people like awardee Kayla Miranda, achieving safety and dignity for low-income households is her life’s […] https://lnkd.in/dq9-3R8z