Analysis: In Texas Budget Season, the Tax Rate Is the Last Number Decided, Not the First
Fort Worth raised its property tax rate by 3.2 cents this year.
Fort Worth raised its property tax rate by 3.2 cents this year.
Texas would bar new subsidized apartments from its poorest neighborhoods unless the local city council or county commissioners vote to let them in, under a draft rule that went before the state housing board Sept. 3.
One year after three state housing laws took effect, senators heard that the laws are producing homes and that some North Texas cities have written ordinances to blunt them.
The Texas housing agency's board meets Sept. 3 to take a first step toward putting work requirements and time limits on the rent vouchers the agency hands out itself.
The Texas Senate Committee on Local Government will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 2 to hear invited testimony on whether the housing laws the Legislature passed last year are working, and on whether the fees Texas cities and counties collect get enough scrutiny.
The Texas Real Estate Commission votes Monday on a rewrite of the rules that tell a licensed home inspector what to check in a house — including, for the first time, a written standard for running a camera down the sewer line.
The Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board votes Friday on whether to send out for public comment a rewrite of eleven rules governing appraisal management companies — the firms that stand between a mortgage lender and the appraiser who decides what a house is worth.
The Texas General Land Office on Monday posted Amendment 22 to the Hurricane Harvey $5.6 Billion State Action Plan for a federally required 30-day public comment period, according to an Aug. 3 news release from the agency.
Governor Greg Abbott announced more than $114 million in housing tax credits to finance the development or rehabilitation of 70 rental properties across Texas, a move the state says will create or preserve more than 4,400 affordable rental units, according to a July 23 news release.
Texas built its growth story on a simple promise: a family could move here and afford a home.