Apartment complexes built with the state's Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program (LIHTC) are virtually indistinguishable aesthetically from their market-rate neighbors. That's great for the communities they seamlessly blend into. But for local tax appraisal...
From Trulia The oft-cited fear that affordable housing will hurt the value of nearby homes is unfounded, according to a decade long look at the data. "The bottom line for NIMBYs who fear that property values will take a hit when a low-income housing project locates...
School districts in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio struggle every year to hire enough qualified teachers. But the fresh graduates most eager to teach in big city schools face a huge problem once they are hired on — none of them can afford to buy a home in...
Legislative letters of support for affordable housing projects continue to be a hot topic for many Texas legislators as well as federal officials involved in the housing tax credit program administered by the state. Legislators often find themselves in the...
For thousands of Texas seniors living on fixed incomes, the housing tax credit program is a godsend. The program builds more clean, new and safe apartments for Texas seniors living on a fixed income than any other housing effort. And it's an effort that is growing....
Texas’ affordable housing dilemma is only expected to get worse in 2017. Demand will continue to skyrocket as new inventory is threatened by a perfect storm of rising costs, bureaucratic hurdles and political uncertainty. “Most of the quality affordable housing you...
The requirement in 10 TAC §10.617(g)(2) to update the Affirmative Marketing Plan every two years has been suspended. Note that the requirement to affirmatively market is not suspended; owners simply continue to affirmatively market to the groups identified...
pledging to ‘Stop Low-Income Government Housing,’ files bill John Henneberger Elected on a pledge to “Stop Low-Income Government Housing” (see campaign ad above), Real Estate Broker and State Representative Valoree Swanson (R-Dist. 150) has moved...
Congress must consider affordable housing The Hill | By John Vogel, opinion contributor - 02/06/17 02:00 PM EST At the time, I was a skeptic. I believed this funding mechanism was inefficient and wasteful. And at first it was. In the early years, the...
STUDY: Older Americans suffer “housing anxiety” at alarming rate One-third of Boomers –Americans between the ages of 53-71 - worry about affording where they live at least once a month, with retirees reporting such anxiety daily, according to a new survey by the...
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