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.
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.
Rep. Gary Gates' committee will take invited and public testimony on whether the spread of municipal utility districts helps or hurts housing affordability, and will review the General Land Office, School Land Board and Board for Lease of University Lands.
Texans who buy their own health insurance are on track for a second consecutive year of steep premium increases, as insurers across the country file 2027 rates that would push the cost of Affordable Care Act coverage up by more than a third over two years.
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.
Four months into the job, Texas Insurance Commissioner Amanda Crawford spent Wednesday morning answering for the price of keeping a roof insured.
The Houston City Council has approved a $7.5 billion municipal budget that reclassifies residential trash collection as a municipal utility, adds a new monthly fee to water bills, and charges the city's own water system to use public rights of way.
The baseline income required for a typical family to achieve financial self-sufficiency is rising across Texas, with escalating healthcare expenses serving as the primary catalyst.
Texas has emerged alongside California as one of the top two destinations in the United States for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) homebuyer migration, according to a report from the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) shared by Texas REALTORS®.
Policy analysts Ben Crockett and Hannah Bruck of the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a new report this month titled "Womb & Board," which analyzes how housing affordability impacts family formation in Texas.