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Government housing programs can and do help the poorest families in Texas
I blogged last week about the need for housing programs to recognize the housing needs of families well below 30 percent of the area median income and suggested a new category of housing need called … more →
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Housing Preferences for Seniors
Virginia Nuessle wrote 1 day ago: National Seniors, Australia’s largest organization representing those aged 50 or older, recent … more →
As Night Follows Day
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Taunter wrote 3 weeks ago: If I may quote myself, from September 4: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Except the … more →
Policing the Police
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Taunter wrote 3 weeks ago: James Kwak over at Baseline has an post about the accounting treatment of Bank of America and Fannie … more →
The Model State
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Taunter wrote 1 month ago: William Voegeli has an LA Times article on the two different models of large state – Texas and … more →
Spare the Rod
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Taunter wrote 1 month ago: Two Russians, Ivan and Peter, struggle to survive in farm country. Eventually Ivan gets a goat. His … more →
College and Debt
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Taunter wrote 1 month ago: Mike Konczal has an interesting post that is popping up all over the place (here, here, and here, an … more →
Bad Ideas Result in Bad Outcomes
Jeff Korzenik wrote 1 month ago: As regular readers know, I’ve been away from blogging for a bit while I’ve been in the m … more →
Tell Us What You Really Want
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Taunter wrote 2 months ago: Courtesy of Mike Konczal at Rortybomb (itself a thoughtful compilation of a variety of articles, esp … more →
Olympics of Stupid
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Taunter wrote 2 months ago: Not long after saying that health care was more important than lobbying for the Olympics, Barack Oba … more →
Affordable Housing vs. Global Warming
Mitch Chester wrote 2 months ago: The year is 2035. It is clear that the steps taken to reduce global warning at the summit in Copenha … more →
Building Communities to Lower CO2 Emissions
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meltzerm wrote 3 months ago: Courtesy of Smart Growth America comes a review of a new Transportation Research Board (TRB) report … more →
Stop Digging
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Taunter wrote 3 months ago: Courtesy of Calculated Risk, a fantastic example of the government’s inability to grasp the ro … more →
Killing Fannie
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Taunter wrote 3 months ago: Mike Konczal has been writing at Rortybomb and now Baseline about structural fixes to the housing ma … more →
Appendix 3 and Fannie Mae
John Clayton wrote 3 months ago: In Jim Collins‘ recent book, How the Mighty Fall, in classic Collins-style, he refuses to chas … more →
Fancy Fast Food
Taunter wrote 4 months ago: Thank you Freakanomics, for showing me a website dedicated to rearranging fast food items. Yes, thi … more →
Government housing programs can and do help the poorest families in Texas
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John Henneberger wrote 4 months ago: I blogged last week about the need for housing programs to recognize the housing needs of families w … more →
A culture of greed tarnishes the Texas Low Income Housing Tax Credit program
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John Henneberger wrote 4 months ago: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Texas is sometimes more about the developers making mon … more →
Final recap of all housing related bills we followed in the Texas Legislature
John Henneberger wrote 5 months ago: I previously blogged about the fate of bills considered by the past session of the Texas Legislature … more →
Why was the leader of a failed Texas housing nonprofit a major political contributor to Texas officials?
John Henneberger wrote 5 months ago: Steve Sterquell, the one-time head of the now bankrupt Amarillo, Texas nonprofit affordable housing … more →
