Prepared Remarks: Issues related to affordable housing, homelessness, and methods of providing and financing affordable housing

image from airplane of single family neighborhood in Brownsville

A September routine interim charge hearing of the Texas Senate Committee on Local Government turned out to be a packed room, with an overflow room almost full as well. People came out to talk about the affordability problems across our state, including those representing Big A Affordable Housing providers, those representing developers and home builders, and environmental, justice, and affordability …

Sustainable urbanism under attack in Austin. Environmentalists: Make your voice heard.

Austin city council has worked for many years to co-create a vision with various communities and stakeholders to allow a new dense, mixed-use, mixed-income development along the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, including the former site of the Austin-American Statesman, currently a nondescript building surrounded by parking lots. This site is but one piece of the larger South Central …

How much could the Texas Transportation Commission allocate to transit, safety, active transportation, and ADA in the 2023 UTP?

The public comment phase is open for the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) 2023 Unified Transportation Program (UTP), and the Texas Transportation Commission (TPC) needs to hear from you about what you hope they can achieve with $117 billion in public spending over the next ten years ($85 billion in proposed projects and $32 billion in project development costs). Find …