Episode 81: How is Texas enabling our state's top evictors?
The research team at Texas Housers has spent the first half of 2026 focused on analyzing the top evictors in Harris and Bexar counties. What...
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A Little Louder
A Little Louder is a podcast by Texas Housers, hosted by John Henneberger and Christina Rosales. We talk about fair housing, community development and community efforts to work toward just c...
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20 of 88 episodesEpisode 80: What's happening with Texas' Continuums of Care?
HUD's Continuum of Care program or CoCs are critical support systems for those who are either experiencing or nearing homelessness. These es...
Episode 79: 7 questions for low-income housing that need answers in 2026
As we enter 2026, our state leaders will begin laying the tracks for legislative reforms that they will pursue in the next legislative sessi...
Episode 78: In depth with our new Executive Director, Quiana Fisher
Texas Housers has a new leader in Quiana Fisher, and we sit down with her to go into detail about why she chose this work, what she identifi...
Episode 77: What Texas' largest cities tell us about evictions and affordability
Texas Housers' top researchers Erin Hahn and Sidney Beaty join A Little Louder to talk about their new interactive projects. The San Antonio...
Episode 76: Wrapping Up The 2025 Texas Legislature
We've come to the end of the 89th Session of the Texas Legislature and we're joined by Texas Housers' research director Ben Martin to take a...
Episode 75: Houston's potential catastrophe around disaster recovery dollars
Hurricane Beryl and the May 2024 derecho showed the powerful and long lasting effects that a wide range of weather events can have. The fede...
Episode 74: How aging Texans face issues with affordable housing
On this episode, Kathy Green from AARP Texas joins the show to talk about how affordable and low-income housing issues are an underreported...
Episode 73: Breaking down HB 32 and SB 38 aka the Eviction Bills
Texas Housers is tracking several housing bills at the 2025 Texas Legislature , some good and some bad. However, one piece of proposed legis...
Episode 72: Diving into the massive eviction hub of Houston
Houston is a cross-section of so many factors when it comes to low-income housing. It is the fourth-largest city in the nation, is famously...
Episode 71: Back to the Capitol for the 89th Texas Legislature
Our first episode of 2025 is a running start right into the 89th Session of the Texas Legislature and there is much ground to cover. On this...
Episode 70: Our biggest stories (and some you might have missed) from 2024
In a supersized episode, we leave 2024 with a bang. Michael Depland speaks with the staff of Texas Housers to reflect on this past year, to...
Episode 69: What data in Dallas tells about the future of affordable housing
Ashley Flores from Child Poverty Action Lab joins the show to talk about the organization's recent 2024 Rental Housing Needs Assessment . Wi...
Episode 68: Land use deregulation and its limitations on achieving housing affordability
The shortage of affordable housing is one of the largest crises facing low-income households in our state, if not the largest. While our wor...
Episode 67: Replacement Reserves restore aging properties. But where are they actually going?
On this episode of the show, Michael is joined by Heather Way of the University of Texas School of Law’s Housing Policy Clinic to discuss th...
Episode 66: How Food and Housing Insecurity Connect
As we work to serve low-income communities, it's important to recognize that they often are dealing with many issues at once, and they often...
Episode 65: Let's Talk Disaster Recovery LIVE
Live from the NLIHC’s Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition convening in Washington D.C., our Southeast Regional Director Julia Orduña speaks...
Episode 64: How to make your city your home via advocacy
On this episode, we're joined by Rich Acosta from My City Is My Home/Mi Ciudad Es Mi Casa as we touch on a wide variety of housing issues in...
Episode 63: How we would fix 'A.I.', meaning the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing
Only twice in a decade, Texas reviews its status on fair housing. State officials evaluate how they are affirmatively furthering fair housin...
Episode 62: What's wrong at Bexar Creek Apartments?
We are joined by Melody Herrera and Aggie Jaramillo to speak about their work alongside tenants of the Bexar Creek Apartments in San Antonio...