Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic
The ECDC provides transactional business law representation and policy guidance to entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and community groups. Our clients are strengthening their communities through job creation, the production and preservation of affordable housing, asset building strategies for low-income individuals, and the provision of innovative and valuable goods and services for their communities. These toolkits, reports, and webinars created by our Clinic are for information only and are not a substitute for the advice of an attorney.
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Protecting African American Historic Places in Texas: A Community Toolkit
(2021)This guide provides community groups and individuals interested in the preservation of sites in Texas with ties to African American heritage with an overview of the legal tools available to help achieve their goals. By no ... -
Protecting And PreservingAfrican-American Cemeteries In Texas
(2020-01)African-American cemeteries are sacred sites that provide important inks to African-American history, cultural ties, and family connections. Many African-American cemeteries, however, are endangered due to abandonment, ... -
Texas Tenant Relocation Assistance Toolkit
(2019)The purpose of this toolkit is to identify the resources available to tenants in Texas when they are displaced from their homes due to development funded in any part by federal dollars or caused by local or state government ... -
Texas Anti-Displacement Toolkit: A Guide to Help Texas Communities Combat Residential Displacement in Gentrifying Neighborhoods
(2019)Gentrification is rapidly reshaping many cities across the United States, including Texas, displacing vulnerable residents and changing the cultural character of communities. This toolkit was created to help local elected ... -
Uprooted: Residential Displacement in Austin’s Gentrifying Neighborhoods and What Can Be Done About It
(2018-08)This report provides a framework for 1) identifying and prioritizing gentrifying neighborhoods where residents are at the highest risk of displacement, and 2) matching strategies to the needs of vulnerable residents in ... -
Tenant Displacement in Austin: A Policy Report Analyzing the City of Austin’s Tenant Relocation Policy at Shoreline Apartments with Recommendations for a City-Wide Policy Approach
(2012-08)This report begins by examining the Shoreline relocation policy and why it failed the tenants. The next sections of the report discuss the benefits of adopting a uniform tenant relocation assistance policy in Austin and ... -
Ousted: The City of San Antonio’s Displacement of Residents through Code Enforcement Actions
(2021-11)In this report, we examine the City of San Antonio’s displacement of residents from their homes for code violations, with a focus on single-family residences. From 2015-2020, the City issued close to 1,000 orders to vacate ... -
Out of Order: Houston's Dangerous Apartment Epidemic
(2018-02)Houston is a city of renters, with more than 420,000 rental housing units and the third highest number of occupied apartments in the country. Many of these apartments, however, are unsafe and deteriorating. Following decades ... -
Addressing Problem Properties: Legal and Policy Tools for Safer Rundberg and Safer Austin
(2013-08)This Report provides information and recommendations on legal and policy tools that could be utilized to improve public safety and the quality of life in the Rundberg area of Austin by addressing problem properties. We ... -
Texas Problem Properties Toolkit: A Resource to Help Texas Communities Address Problems Created by Vacant and Abandoned Properties
(2010)For the past two years, the Community Development Clinic at the University ofTexas School of Law has been researching best practices in Texas and around theUnited States for addressing problem properties. Our research has ... -
Building Hope: Tools for Transforming Abandoned and Blighted Properties into Community Assets
(2007-12)This report was prepared at the request of Builders of Hope, a Texas nonprofit corporation and community-based organization in West Dallas, to examine some of the different legal and policy tools that can be used to improve ... -
Public Facility Corporations and the Section 303.042(f) Tax Break for Apartment Developments
(2020-08)This research report examines a recently adopted property tax exemption for private apartment developers available under Section 303.042(f) of the Texas Local Government Code. While the amendment received little notice ... -
Endangered: San Antonio's Vanishing Mobile Home Parks and a Path to Preservation
(2020-01)Mobile home parks are vanishing in San Antonio at an alarming rate, with the closure of at least nine mobile home parks since 2014. Without intervention by the city, dozens more mobile home parks are at risk of closing, ... -
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program in Texas: Opportunities for State and Local Preservation Strategies
(2018-12)The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is the largest affordable rental housing program in Texas and the United States. Close to 260,000 Texas families live in over 2,500 LIHTC properties across the state. As a ... -
A Guide for Developing Community Land Trust Affordable Homeownership Programs in Texas
(2018-07)This Guide is intended primarily for affordable housing developers and parts of the Guide may also be helpful for the low- and moderate-income families they serve. The goal of the Guide is to introduce the Community Land ... -
Best Practices for Incorporating Equity in Transit Oriented Development
(2014-05)When cities put affordability at the heart of their transit oriented development, they add an “e” to “TOD.” eTOD, or Equitable Transit Oriented Development, is oriented towards the people most likely to use transit the ... -
The New Starts Grant and Affordable Housing: A Roadmap for Austin’s Project Connect
(2014-03)This report is intended to provide an overview of the ways in which affordable housing preservation and development impact the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts Grant Process. It was written as a guide for Austin’s ... -
Fair Housing Legal Toolkit for Permanent Supportive Housing Providers: Addressing Local Opposition to PSH Developments
(2011-05)The Fair Housing Legal Toolkit was created for the Texas Supportive Housing Coalition to present ways in which fair housing laws can help coalition members confront opposition to the development of permanent supportive ...
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