Housing

Understanding Houston: 'It's like I can't survive,' temporarily-homeless Houstonian says

This is a part of a series connected to our partnership with the Greater Houston Community Foundation's regional project Understanding Houston. This story, and others, also appears on the Understanding Houston website.

Atlanta resident survey shows similar concerns Houstonians face including transportation, housing and crime

Each year, the Atlanta Regional Commission and its partners conduct the Metro Atlanta Speaks survey, similar to Houston's Kinder Houston Area Survey.

Kinder Institute Forum: Henry Cisneros

Former Mayor and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros shares strategies for inclusive growth, improving urban and social infrastructure and planning for affordable housing.

Housing Choice Voucher Mobility in Houston

This report identifies patterns in the household movements of residents who hold Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) in Harris County. It identifies who among the voucher holders are moving, where they are moving to and from, and whether or not these moves are related to attempts to access opportunity or to avoid pressures such as gentrification, flood risk, and high rents.

Housing Choice Voucher research shows who’s most likely to move toward opportunity

The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program offers subsidy recipients the advantage and freedom to choose a rental location, unlike other project-based affordable housing programs

Analysis: Governments don’t fix problems they don’t recognize

This story was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

How suburbs are turning into 'hipsturbias' to cater to millennials

Hipsters + Suburbs = Hipsturbias

Federal transit funding could be tied to housing production if this bill passes

America has a shortage of 7.2 million affordable homes, and 8.1 million Americans spend more than half of their income on housing, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Texas cities 'surprisingly' featured in report about combating green gentrification

Park improvements and gentrification are said to go hand in hand, but a new report sheds light on how this trend can stop. 

How American cities are handling neighborhood change, gentrification and displacement

According to a Kinder Institute report released last year, the pace of neighborhood change in Houston has accelerated since the year 2000.

Gap between income growth and housing cost increases continues to grow

As of March 2019, only a handful of the largest metropolitan areas had housing markets that would be considered "healthy."

Understanding serial eviction filers

Why do property owners file evictions against the same tenant over and over? A new study of Atlanta-area eviction filings considers the practice.

Why homelessness is going down in Houston but up in Dallas

Although the view on the streets might tell a different story, Houston has been able to decrease its homeless population by 53% since 2011, according to the annual data. In Dallas the trend is the opposite and housing affordability might make the problem even worse.

Two Texas cities among the top 12 American cities where people want to move, rental search report shows

A new report shows both Dallas and Houston as cities where people are wanting to rent next. 

HOAs are spreading. But at what cost to cities?

Almost 60 percent of new single-family home construction today is in an HOA, according to the study.