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Housing
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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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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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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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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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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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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June 10, 2022
When it comes to Texas housing prices now, you can put historical data in the trash can
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May 12, 2022
Cockroaches ‘everywhere’ — for many refugees in Dallas, home can be a health hazard
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May 11, 2022
A daunting task: Dallas code inspectors root out unsafe or unhealthy conditions in apartments
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May 10, 2022
From despair to hope — and disrepair, refugees in Dallas’ Vickery Meadow start a new life
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May 9, 2022
Rodents. Bad plumbing. No AC. Northeast Dallas residents still wait for landlord to make repairs
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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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March 25, 2022
As Austin-area evictions rise, lawyers are on hand (virtually) to help tenants
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February 7, 2022
North Texas nonprofit shuttles people to warmth during a freeze, but not everyone wants to go
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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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January 25, 2022
Texas eviction filings among the nation’s highest as millions of rent relief dollars go unspent
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January 21, 2022
Hays County is still struggling to give out COVID-19 rent relief. Now, the program is losing money.
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January 4, 2022
New law requires Texas landlords to tell tenants if their property lies in a 100-year flood plain
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September 1, 2022
Southern Dallas apartment complex residents grapple with bug infestations, faulty electrical outlets
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November 15, 2021
Why Texas’ white-hot housing market might be cooling down
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November 15, 2021
Texas will receive $35 billion in federal infrastructure funds. How much will go to Houston remains uncertain
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November 9, 2021
Castroville working to protect Alsatian heritage amidst major developments
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November 4, 2021
Some unexpected ways Adult Protective Services brings help
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October 28, 2021
Will your next house be printed?
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October 21, 2021
More than half of Houston households continue to face pandemic financial struggles, survey says
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October 11, 2021
The average monthly rent in Austin is now $1,500. Prices are rising at the fastest pace ever.
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October 4, 2021
Austin cleared out the city’s most visible homeless camp. Residents say they weren’t given any help.
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September 27, 2021
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Launches Investigation Into Allegations Made By Former Housing Director
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September 20, 2021
Proposed Homeless Center Causes Strife Within Lubbock’s Outreach Community
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September 9, 2021
Dallas Students Experiencing Homelessness Have A New Place To Go — And It’s Not One Size Fits All
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August 2, 2021
As Federal Eviction Moratorium Expires, Tenants And Rent Advocates Scramble To Obtain State And Local Rental Relief Funds
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July 30, 2021
A ‘Frenzy,’ Not A Bubble: What Texans Can Learn From California’s Earlier Housing Boom
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July 26, 2021
Texas Veterans Homes Overseen By George P. Bush Were Often The Deadliest Places To Be During COVID-19 Pandemic
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