TAAHP is working to identify and promote bipartisan policy options to expand the supply of homes and improve housing affordability, especially for low- and moderate-income households. Texas needs innovative solutions to fix the housing affordability gap. Here are TAAHP's four legislative priorities for the upcoming Texas 88th Legislature in 2023.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it will make available $10 million in Rural Capacity Building grants.
HousingWorks Austin published their seventh version of the Austin City Council District-by-District and Community at a Glance Housing Analysis.
Each year, HUD's Economic and Market Analysis Division prepares Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses that assist and guide HUD in its operations. Corpus Christi, Texas was one of four cities selected from around the country for HUD’s first round of the 2022...
San Antonio voters approve $150 Million for Affordable Housing. Proposition F included $150 million for affordable housing to include $35 million to buy and build rental housing, $45 million to help homeowners repair their homes, $40 million for acquisition and rehabilitation of affordable housing $25 million for supportive housing services and $5 million for home construction.
A 12.5 percent increase in 9 percent allocations enacted in the 2018 omnibus spending bill has expired for the calendar year 2022, causing a decrease nationwide in the 2022 9% population-based LIHTC allocations.
On April 12, TAAHP signed on to the letter sent to Congress by NCHSA and signed by 82 organizations representing state and local government officials and Housing Credit industry participants. The letter urged congressional leaders to amend the underlying statute of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) to facilitate its use with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) program so that states and local governments may use these funds to build and preserve desperately needed affordable rental housing.
The 2023 President's Budget requests $71.9 billion for HUD, approximately $11.6 billion more than the 2022 annualized continuing resolution (CR) level. The Budget outlines an ambitious agenda to address challenges our nation faces, ranging from climate change to housing discrimination to racial equity in homeownership and rental housing, to ending homelessness.
According to a recent story in the Austin-American Statesman, San Antonio-based non-profit, Endeavors, is distributing rent relief to low-income residents in dozens of counties across Texas earning at or below 50 percent of their area's median income who are struggling to pay rent due to the impact of the COVID19 pandemic.
Texas counties will lose a combined $103 million in federal rent assistance funds provided by the U.S. treasury.
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