A Little Louder

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A Little Louder

A Little Louder is a podcast by Texas Housers, hosted by John Henneberger. We talk about fair housing, community development and community efforts to work toward just cities and inclusive neighborhoods.

  1. OCT 2

    Episode 67: Replacement Reserves restore aging properties. But where are they actually going?

    On this episode of the show, Michael is joined by Heather Way of the University of Texas School of Law’s Housing Policy Clinic to discuss their latest report. Best Practices to Prevent Substandard Conditions in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Properties: An Examination of Replacement Reserves Policies in Texas’ LIHTC Program dives into the issues that aging properties face as their change ownership, rules and accountability loosen, and tenants need far more protection. To learn more, you can read Professor Way's report on our website.

    26 min

  2. SEP 10

    Episode 66: How Food and Housing Insecurity Connect

    As we work to serve low-income communities, it's important to recognize that they often are dealing with many issues at once, and they often overlap. Jamie Olson from Feeding Texas joins this episode of A Little Louder to talk about their mission to eradicate hunger across the state, how food and housing insecurity are linked, and how we must endeavor to work across issues to serve low-income people.

    23 min

  3. JUL 1

    Episode 65: Let's Talk Disaster Recovery LIVE

    Live from the NLIHC’s Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition convening in Washington D.C., our Southeast Regional Director Julia Orduña speaks with members of the Northeast Action Collective out of Houston – Sade Hogue, Cheryl Henderson, Dana Jones, and Rita Robles – during a special panel. The group touches on how their lived experience grounds their expertise in disaster housing recovery, and they discussed their critical work in Texas ensuring their communities have a seat at the table in disaster planning, response, and recovery. We again want to thank @nlihc for the invite and hope you enjoy this lively panel!

    1h 3m

  4. MAY 31

    Episode 64: How to make your city your home via advocacy

    On this episode, we're joined by Rich Acosta from My City Is My Home/Mi Ciudad Es Mi Casa as we touch on a wide variety of housing issues in San Antonio, including fighting for renters' rights, battling against source of income discrimination for veterans, pushing back against property tax assessments for lower-income homeowners and much more.

    47 min

  5. APR 30

    Episode 63: How we would fix 'A.I.', meaning the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing

    Only twice in a decade, Texas reviews its status on fair housing. State officials evaluate how they are affirmatively furthering fair housing, consider the condition of affordable housing across the state, and provide what steps they intend to take to ensure they are proactive in pursuing fair housing practices. All of these findings are collected in an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing or an A.I. The 2024 Texas A.I. is now available for comment, and Housers' research director Ben Martin and research analyst Sidney Beaty join the podcast to talk about what's in this document, how Texas must do a better job in engaging affected parties and everyday people for feedback, and how you listeners can express your thoughts as well. If you'd like to provide comment on the 2024 Texas A.I., you can do so here. If you have questions on this, you can contact Ben or Sidney via email.

    36 min

  6. APR 24

    Episode 62: What's wrong at Bexar Creek Apartments?

    We are joined by Melody Herrera and Aggie Jaramillo to speak about their work alongside tenants of the Bexar Creek Apartments in San Antonio. Residents have described issues with poor water, pests, rodents, and air conditioning that have dated back years, and now things have finally reached an inflection point. We speak about public comment, raising visibility, and what is next. If you'd like to learn more about what's happening at Bexar Creek Apartments, please reach out our Houser in San Antonio Suzanne Baker (suzanne@texashousing.org).

    21 min

  7. FEB 29

    Episode 61: Unmasking Ownership at Problem Properties

    Over the past six months, Texas Housers has spotlighted the stories of uninhabitable conditions and mass evictions at Cabo San Lucas apartments in Houston and the ensuing barriers tenants faced to remain housed.  Our work led us to investigate who actually owns Cabo San Lucas, yet no one seems to know. While our outreach team worked with tenants in Houston, our research team had coincidentally been at work to find information on property owners who attempt to escape accountability by filing as a "single property LLC". To tie this all together, Housers research analyst Sidney Beaty joins the podcast to talk about how problem properties utilize these loopholes and what we can do to bring these owners to the light.

    22 min

  8. JAN 26

    Episode 60: Tenant's Rights From Nepal To Denton

    While most folks in the housing justice community have a strong idea of how tenant's rights and evictions shape our broader world, Andrew Nelson, Associate Professor for Department of Anthropology at University of North Texas offers a unique perspective in how the fight for these essential rights globally affected his advocacy in Denton. On this episode, we discuss what works across our globe to gain rights, what his team has observed in Denton courts, and what cultural shift will be required to make Texas a tenant-friendly state.

    42 min
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A Little Louder is a podcast by Texas Housers, hosted by John Henneberger. We talk about fair housing, community development and community efforts to work toward just cities and inclusive neighborhoods.

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  • Creator
    Texas Housers
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    74
  • Rating
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    © Texas Housers
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