Advocates say that granny flats, mother-in-law suites, cat mansions, or—as one couple built—sex dungeons can add affordable housing stock without changing the streetscape.
Last year, one in every ten Harris County renters faced losing their home. A new program aims to connect tenants with resources.
The Other Ones Foundation, led by Chris Baker, transformed a state-run encampment site for Austinites experiencing homelessness into a welcoming refuge.
They have swimming pools, dozens of beds, and at least one stripper pole in a backyard school bus (you read that right). Locals say they’re are turning a vulnerable community into a “theme park” for hard-partying tourists.
With workers continuing to stay home post-pandemic and housing in short supply, developers in the state’s largest metros are giving a second life to old buildings.
Pandemic relief funds provided a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” for homeless support programs. But what happens when the money dries up?
Ariel René Jackson’s "A Welcoming Place" will likely be one of the more discussed Austin art shows of the season.
If you’re trying to buy a home, then you’re probably a grown-up. You deserve a grown-up city—the city of Houston.
Long hours, longer lines, nonstop bidding wars, and letters penned by pets. Stories from the real estate bonanza.
Houston has become a hot spot for pandemic removal proceedings. For tenants such as Evelyn Powers, relief has been hard to come by.
The mayor set his sights a little lower in his latest ill-advised social media post.
As the state's unemployment numbers skyrocket, many Texans don't know how they'll be able to honor their leases without rent relief.
Launched in 2018, the Houston Community Land Trust aims to make home ownership attainable for families of limited means.
Your two-bedroom apartment budget will stretch a lot father in Copperas Cove than in Addison.
An epic opportunity for the fabulously wealthy to pay somebody else's mortgage.
Spoiler: They’re both in the path of a tropical storm right now.
The rent, as you may have heard, is increasingly too dang high.
Things are tough all over—but they're especially tough in College Station and Laredo.
The North Dallas suburb of Frisco is growing rapidly—and it's only going to grow faster when the Cowboys move their facilities there in 2016.
The Austinites who founded the Collegestudent.Com Web site say the idea came to them as brilliant ones often do: over a beer. “We were griping about how hard it was to find housing, especially in the heat,” says Eben Miller, who at the time was a student at the University
Condo Manager Sharon Butler questions what officials consider affordable.
And hello to high prices, high interest rates, high rents, and a new low for the American dream.
Behind the gleaming facades of many new apartment villages are the crumbling walls of next year’s urban blight.
What’s what and who’s who in Texas real estate.
