68 episodes

A Little Louder is a podcast by Texas Housers, hosted by John Henneberger. We talk about fair housing, community development and community efforts to work toward just cities and inclusive neighborhoods.

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A Little Louder is a podcast by Texas Housers, hosted by John Henneberger. We talk about fair housing, community development and community efforts to work toward just cities and inclusive neighborhoods.

    Episode 61: Unmasking Ownership at Problem Properties

    Episode 61: Unmasking Ownership at Problem Properties

    Over the past six months, Texas Housers has spotlighted the stories of uninhabitable conditions and mass evictions at Cabo San Lucas apartments in Houston and the ensuing barriers tenants faced to remain housed. 

    Our work led us to investigate who actually owns Cabo San Lucas, yet no one seems to know. While our outreach team worked with tenants in Houston, our research team had coincidentally been at work to find information on property owners who attempt to escape accountability by filing as a "single property LLC".



    To tie this all together, Housers research analyst Sidney Beaty joins the podcast to talk about how problem properties utilize these loopholes and what we can do to bring these owners to the light.

    • 22 min
    Episode 60: Tenant's Rights From Nepal To Denton

    Episode 60: Tenant's Rights From Nepal To Denton

    While most folks in the housing justice community have a strong idea of how tenant's rights and evictions shape our broader world, Andrew Nelson, Associate Professor for Department of Anthropology at University of North Texas offers a unique perspective in how the fight for these essential rights globally affected his advocacy in Denton.



    On this episode, we discuss what works across our globe to gain rights, what his team has observed in Denton courts, and what cultural shift will be required to make Texas a tenant-friendly state.

    • 42 min
    Episode 59: How do we fix what renters are facing in San Antonio?

    Episode 59: How do we fix what renters are facing in San Antonio?

    Annually, Texas Housers' team in San Antonio releases its San Antonio District Renter Profiles to deliver a snapshot of how affordable rental housing is distributed across the city, what are the tenant demographics of each city council district, and newly added for this year, how evictions come into play for San Antonio households.



    South Texas Regional Director Mia Loseff joins the show to discuss the findings of the renter profiles and how we can improve the lives of low-income tenants not just in SA, but across our state.

    • 33 min
    Episode 58: How Texas renters live under extreme heat

    Episode 58: How Texas renters live under extreme heat

    High summer temperatures in the Lone Star State are a regular occurrence. However, in recent years, extreme heat has grown more dangerous, with 2023 being the second hottest summer on record.



    With this in mind, Texas is not a state that requires rental units to have air conditioning. And even if a tenant is fortunate enough to have AC, a speedy repair or accommodations are also not codified in law.



    This was the main reason behind Texas Housers' latest report 'Renters, Air Conditioning, and Extreme Heat in Texas' and its author, Research Director Ben Martin, joined A Little Louder to discuss the current laws for AC in rental units in Texas and what we feel must change.

    • 33 min
    Episode 57: Six years past Harvey, recovery troubles remain

    Episode 57: Six years past Harvey, recovery troubles remain

    Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Coast six years ago this week, back in 2017. And though certain immediate response efforts were swift, the actual recovery has been a long and frustrating process for far too many. Not only are some residents still awaiting funding to make their homes whole again, numerous others have been classified as helped by the Texas General Land Office and have been left behind altogether.

    Texas Housers' Southeast Texas Regional Director Julia Orduña joins the show to talk about her work with households recovering from Harvey, how the State wants to take money away from recovery to fund a different program they already had proper funding for, and what we are doing to fix this in 2023.

    Did you experience Hurricane Harvey? Tell us your recovery story!

    https://bit.ly/HarveySurveyTH

    • 28 min
    Episode 56: Mass evictions at Cabo San Lucas

    Episode 56: Mass evictions at Cabo San Lucas

    On this episode of A Little Louder, host Michael Depland is joined by Texas Housers' community navigator Taylor Laredo, Litigation Director at Lone Star Legal Aid Dana Karni, and Texas Legal Services Center staff attorney William Ritter to discuss a Houston property that had planned to evict more than 100 households at once, with many not receiving the basic documents such as a notice to vacate in a proper manner or – in some cases – at all.

    We explore what we witnessed while visiting the Cabo San Lucas Apartments, what occured at the eviction hearings, and what we must do to prevent these mass evictions in the future.

    • 51 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
13 Ratings

13 Ratings

Elevating Voices ,

You don't have to live in Texas!

A Little Louder may focus on housing in Texas but many of the topics are pertinent to anywhere in the US. John and the entire Texas Housers staff distill a complicated issue into understandable terms and actions we can take. Of course, at its base, safe and affordable housing is not complicated. It is basic and A Little Louder helps us take steps in that direction.

Ellimac B ,

Super informative

A podcast for everyone

German Girl ,

Housing Discrimination & Segregation in Texas

I love this podcast and I highly recommend it.

I am white and new to the topic of housing discrimination and segregation. Of course, Texas, always at the front of the FOMO movement when it comes to discrimination and segregation, plays a prominent role in this space.
I find this podcast very informative and revealing and found the recent Juneteenth episode on Texas Freedmen’s towns particularly interesting.

Thank you, Texas Housers, for the important work you do, and for bringing it to the average Texans, the white ones in particular, through your podcast.

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