Housing

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A state law passed three decades ago allows a sale to go ahead with just 80% of a condo complex in agreement. Once the deal is final, the remaining objectors have to sell their homes.

Residents who live in public housing pay roughly a third of their income toward rent.

Does it make any sense to live in a dark-colored house in a state like Texas? We ask experts whether these homes are less energy efficient.

For some local relief programs, a lack of staffing, political support and effective community outreach got in the way of spending federal funds to prevent evictions, a new report found. More than $30 million went unspent and had to be returned.

Those competing to represent District 9, which has some of Austin’s most unaffordable neighborhoods, don’t agree on how to solve the skyrocketing cost of staying housed — or what to blame.

To answer that question, we need to go back to World War II and the era of federal rent control.

While the city has general leeway in how the loan is spent, it says it plans to use this money to build and preserve housing that someone earning roughly less than $61,800 a year can afford.

In a study of newly released data, researchers found that while the average appraised value of a home in a white neighborhood in Austin is $873,758, a similar home in a community of color is valued at $318,496.

Melva K. Williams took over as the seventh president and chief executive officer in August. Her goals are to grow the HBCU's campus, enrollment and partnerships with Austin's tech community. But first, she has to make sure HT can provide every accepted student with housing.