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Housing
February 3, 2025
‘It’s kind of a frozen market’: Home sales fell to the lowest level in nearly 30 years in 2024
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January 21, 2025
Working to ‘love thy neighbor,’ an Austin church creates an overnight shelter for the unhoused
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January 17, 2025
Williamson County lacks official shelters for the homeless. Nonprofits are filling the gap.
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January 10, 2025
Houston redevelopment authority spent millions of affordable housing dollars on office space
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January 7, 2025
Texas has a housing affordability crisis. Here’s how state lawmakers may tackle it in 2025.
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December 19, 2024
Austin went on a land-buying spree in 2020. So far, little has been built on it.
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December 13, 2024
More Texas home builders are including blackout protection to brace for potential outages
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December 6, 2024
The price of home insurance is skyrocketing in Texas. What can be done?
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November 5, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth is predicted to be the hottest real estate market in 2025
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October 11, 2024
Nowhere like home: A journey that began in desperation and a tent ends in a better place
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October 10, 2024
Moving day: For a homeless woman, one-bedroom Dallas apartment seems like a ‘mansion’
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October 7, 2024
Richard Garrett lost his job, his girlfriend and his home. With help, he’s on a new path
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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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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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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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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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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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