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.
The financing engine behind much of suburban Texas got a daylong defense in the Capitol on Tuesday — and a warning from the people who live inside it.
The longest single stretch of Monday's House committee hearing was not about a law already on the books.
Four mayors and other city officials came to the Capitol on Monday to tell a Texas House committee they are complying with the state's most aggressive housing law passed last session.
Candidate filing opened Saturday for three elected seats on the Tarrant Appraisal District board, putting a two-year residential appraisal freeze that left an estimated 190,000 county homes overvalued in front of voters on Nov.
Texas home insurers earned roughly 22 cents in profit for every dollar of premiums they collected in 2025 — their best year in two decades — according to preliminary financial data reported July 8, even as homeowners pay about 80% more for coverage than they did in 2020.
For the first time since the pandemic-era run-up, some Texas homeowners are seeing their appraised values fall — a shift that, paired with this year's larger homestead exemption, should ease the tax burden on many households when bills arrive this fall.