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Furthering Fair Housing Choices for Voucher Tenants in Austin
(2010-09)
The main purpose of this report is to examine best practices that have been implemented around the country to further fair housing opportunities for families with Housing Choice Vouchers. The report first provides an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...