Through this project, we follow the aspirations and day-to-day lives of these families and highlight the public policy issues that affect their ability to obtain decent housing.
More than 1 million Texans have lived in public housing over the past sixty years. For most public housing residents it is the only thing that stood between them and homelessness.
A living crisis is an exhibit which encompasses the issues related to Texas housing issues including:
...and many more.
TxLIHIS conducted a survey of farm labor housing conditions in the Texas Panhandle in 2002. The videos on this page provide an orientation to farm labor housing issues in Texas, a video survey of the poor livinging conditions we found and our recommendations for dealing with the problems.
Many hundreds of thousands of Texas poorest families live in colonias. These two videos present the housing conditions in two different types of colonias:border colonias and non-border colonias.
The Border Low Income Housing Coalition
The Border Low Income Housing Coalition (BLIHC) is a grassroots coalition that responds to the severely substandard conditions found in colonias along the Texas-Mexico border.