Housing

October 4, 2024

From living under a bridge to a home – new strategy offers hope to Dallas homeless

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September 4, 2024

DOJ accuses Texas-based real estate software company of helping landlords collude to raise rents

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August 29, 2024

Housing shortage in Texas continues according to new report from state comptroller’s office

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A red sign with white letters reading "For Rent." There is a shadow across the sign.
August 15, 2024

Only 1% of tax-exempt units in Houston target the needs of very low-income renters

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August 12, 2024

Rural places don’t always have official addresses. This woman in Big Bend is trying to help.

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August 9, 2024

A new poll finds 90% of Texans say housing affordability is an issue

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August 7, 2024

Rents in Austin are down. But many renters still struggle to find housing they can afford.

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July 31, 2024

Plano nonprofit offers a home to unhoused young people – even as youth homelessness is on the rise

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A photo of an air conditioner thermostat shows the temperature at 87 degrees fahrenheit.
July 8, 2024

Seniors left to swelter as wild weather tests Houston’s independent senior living facilities

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July 8, 2024

San Antonio Water System cuts service to apartments behind on bills

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A large green sign outside an apartment building reads "leasing center" above an arrow pointing to the right
June 25, 2024

How algorithms are worsening the housing affordability crisis

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June 12, 2024

With new platform, Texas Democrats may find common ground with Republicans on housing affordability crisis

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June 6, 2024

How one Austin neighborhood paved the way for a culture of central air conditioning

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June 5, 2024

Austin has been investing in more housing for the homeless. Is it working?

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May 21, 2024

The government wants to buy their flood-prone homes. But these Texans aren’t moving.

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May 3, 2024

Texas Republicans have tried to rein in property taxes for five years. Has it worked?

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May 1, 2024

Brownsville nonprofit launches affordable housing model in more expensive Rio Grande Valley

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April 17, 2024

Developers have built thousands of windowless bedrooms in Austin. Now, the city may outlaw them.

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April 12, 2024

How many landlords pad rent with ‘junk fees,’ and what can be done

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April 12, 2024

What’s behind all the in-migration to Texas?

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April 3, 2024

Republicans’ budding interest in Texas’ housing crisis could create strange political bedfellows

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March 19, 2024

Gov. Greg Abbott wants the Texas Legislature to rein in investors behind large-scale home purchases

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A sign outside a home says "for sale / Realty Austin"
March 19, 2024

Austin’s housing market, once among the hottest in the US, is cooling

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February 19, 2024

Citation locations show Houston’s homeless are often ticketed in wealthier areas

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February 13, 2024

More than 650,000 people are unhoused in the U.S. Here’s how Texas is doing.

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Mulch is seen in a large clearing, with trees in the distance
February 9, 2024

Lax land use laws help accelerate Hill Country development

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January 19, 2024

Amid brutal cold, what resources are available for Texans dealing with homelessness?

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January 15, 2024

Texas housing market is ‘correcting from where we’ve been during the pandemic’

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January 10, 2024

Can 3D printing help solve North Texas’ affordable housing crisis?

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January 10, 2024

Has a big village of tiny homes eased homelessness in Austin?

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December 21, 2023

DOJ sues Colony Ridge, calling it a ‘bait-and-switch’ sales scheme targeting Latino buyers

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December 20, 2023

Can Congress stop big companies from buying up homes?

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December 7, 2023

Austin helped buy cheap apartments with the intent of keeping prices low. Instead, rents went up.

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A woman sits in a a patio area outside on a sunny day. She is wearing a black floral dress and glasses and smiles at the camera.
November 28, 2023

This El Paso mom found a second chance at a women’s shelter

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November 22, 2023

She owed her Mesquite HOA $3,500. Now, she’s losing the home she owned for 18 years

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November 10, 2023

Austin homes used to sell in a week. Now sales take months, if they happen at all.

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October 2, 2023

Austin says shelter is coming for homeless residents. Nonprofits would like a word.

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September 29, 2023

Deadly heat, no AC — and for Texas renters, help from local governments is hit-or-miss

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September 26, 2023

Austin policy lets builders forgo red tape. The result? More affordable housing, less public input.

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September 25, 2023

Number of homeless families in Tarrant County grows as support funds are depleted — or diverted

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September 22, 2023

After taking advantage amid the pandemic, now the country’s biggest landlords can’t find homes to buy

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September 20, 2023

Tarrant Appraisal District regroups after staffing shake-up, website issues

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September 7, 2023

Struggling to get your landlord to fix your AC? Here’s what to do.

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August 21, 2023

Lubbock residents advocating for historic neighborhood ahead of high-rise apartment vote

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August 9, 2023

How some North Texas landlords go outside the legal eviction process to force tenants out

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July 24, 2023

Haven for Hope reaches out to San Antonio’s most vulnerable amid heat wave

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July 13, 2023

What can Texas teach California about dealing with homelessness?

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July 10, 2023

Pandemic relief funds may have driven housing price inflation

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June 29, 2023

New podcast explores decisions that led to Austin’s unaffordable, segregated housing market

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June 8, 2023

Major home insurers are getting out of California. Is Texas next?

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May 30, 2023

Terlingua residents see property taxes triple – or more – this year

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May 16, 2023

Report: ‘We Buy Ugly Houses’ franchisor targeted elderly homeowners

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May 9, 2023

Did sale of historically Black Frederick Douglass School seal the fate of Gilbert-Emory neighborhood?

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May 8, 2023

Residents of historically Black Gilbert-Emory neighborhood watch as their community disappears

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May 5, 2023

Texas is losing its ‘cheap housing edge,’ Dallas Federal Reserve says

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May 5, 2023

Colonias and the American Dream are one and the same for residents

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April 14, 2023

Muslim transition homes for the recently incarcerated provide stability amid an ever-increasing need

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An exterior shot of the Salvation Army shelter building in downtown Austin
March 29, 2023

Salvation Army’s downtown Austin shelter is closing, leaving a gap in services for single women

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March 20, 2023

As pandemic-era rental assistance programs lapse, will lawmakers take action?

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March 20, 2023

As refugee numbers grow, North Texas resettlement agency expands to Dallas

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March 2, 2023

These five issues could be key to solving Texas’ housing affordability woes

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March 1, 2023

Agency punts on north Dallas affordable housing project, delays vote

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A woman stands facing the camera and smiling in front of a blank wall. This is Manda Rogers.
February 28, 2023

Houston remains one of the most affordable big cities in the U.S., even if it no longer feels like it

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February 14, 2023

Addicks and Barker Reservoirs homeowners have limited options to sue if their homes flood again

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February 2, 2023

Collin County doesn’t have an emergency homeless shelter despite growing need

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January 31, 2023

What would property tax relief from the Legislature mean for Texas renters?

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January 30, 2023

Could taxed marijuana sales lower Texans’ property taxes?

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January 27, 2023

Tell us what you want to know about property taxes in Texas

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January 27, 2023

East Texas lawmaker files bill to loosen building height restrictions in big cities

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January 25, 2023

In Texas, you can be forced to sell your condo

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January 4, 2023

An underused approach to housing families: bigger apartments

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December 19, 2022

Black houses are so hot right now. But are they hotter?

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November 22, 2022

Dallas wants to move homeless people from encampments into housing. But trust is in short supply

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November 16, 2022

The state of the housing market: ‘Exercise caution in this environment’

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October 31, 2022

Amid a national housing shortage, Austin’s listings have skyrocketed

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October 11, 2022

Balch Springs families struggle to find a home — more than a month after floods hit North Texas

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October 10, 2022

How a small municipal entity is helping property developers get tax breaks

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October 5, 2022

When that dream home turns out to be a rental

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September 22, 2022

Rising values of adobe hit home in West Texans

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August 30, 2022

Neighbors protested housing for homeless Austinites. Then, they (sort of) changed their stance.

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August 24, 2022

Pace of Harris County home buyouts slower than hoped for after Hurricane Harvey

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August 23, 2022

Denton County landlord charged high fees for run-down properties, investigation shows

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August 1, 2022

In Fort Worth’s Fairmount neighborhood, short-term rentals are pushing out traditional renters

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July 18, 2022

Just because shelter is offered from the killer heat doesn’t mean those without shelter will take it

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July 13, 2022

Austin builders are starting a lot of new homes. Finishing them is not so simple.

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June 28, 2022

City of Mesquite considers upping minimum home size to 2,000 square feet

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June 20, 2022

Religious freedom or ‘life safety?’ Clash over Dallas apartment complexes lands in federal court

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June 13, 2022

Investors bought nearly a third of all homes sold in Texas last year

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A residential "for sale" sign is planted in the green lawn outside of a white modern-style home.
June 10, 2022

When it comes to Texas housing prices now, you can put historical data in the trash can

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A woman kneels down in her kitchen facing the dishwasher
May 12, 2022

Cockroaches ‘everywhere’ — for many refugees in Dallas, home can be a health hazard

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A code inspector looks at damaged window blinds
May 11, 2022

A daunting task: Dallas code inspectors root out unsafe or unhealthy conditions in apartments

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A person standing in a dark room, looking out the window through curtains
May 10, 2022

From despair to hope — and disrepair, refugees in Dallas’ Vickery Meadow start a new life

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A sink is lined with bottles of saved water
May 9, 2022

Rodents. Bad plumbing. No AC. Northeast Dallas residents still wait for landlord to make repairs

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Packing boxes on the floor in an apartment
April 18, 2022

With federal rent relief dwindling, eviction rates are on the rise in Texas’ largest cities

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April 12, 2022

Some landlords got a piece of Texas’ $2 billion in rent relief money — and evicted their struggling tenants anyway

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a man in a button down shirt and slacks stands at a desk looking at his computer screen where he is having a video conference session
March 25, 2022

As Austin-area evictions rise, lawyers are on hand (virtually) to help tenants

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Two people wearing green jackets hats and gloves stand in front of a person experiencing homelessness who's wrapped in a blanket at a bus shelter during a freeze
February 7, 2022

North Texas nonprofit shuttles people to warmth during a freeze, but not everyone wants to go

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several tents alongside a fence with trees and a dim blue sky in the background
February 4, 2022

Most Austinites experiencing homelessness will go without the city’s shelters during this week’s freeze

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January 27, 2022

Houston eviction courts are packed again as numbers return to pre-COVID levels

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an overhead view of homes next to a highway. Beyond is the Houston skyline.
January 25, 2022

Texas eviction filings among the nation’s highest as millions of rent relief dollars go unspent

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