A Little Louder

Favianna and Michael are back for the second and final entry in our 2027 Texas Housers' legislative preview! On this episode, we're tackling housing affordability, making sure tax credits and state programs work for the people, and more in anticipation of the 90th session of the Texas Legislature.Follow along at home, listen to Part 1 here and read our top housing priorities, including our simple one pager, on ⁠TexasHousers.org⁠.

As the end of the year draws closer, Texas Housers is already hard at work developing our plans for the 90th session of the Texas Legislature. With affordability, availability, stability, and safety at top of mind, our Advocacy Director Favianna Orriols joins A Little Louder for our first in a two part episode on our top priorities at the Capitol this coming January and what bills we have our eyes on.Follow along at home and read our top priorities one pager on TexasHousers.org.

We are back with Part 2 of our deep dive into evictions and ownership in Bexar and Harris Counties. After more than half a year of investigation, our research team of Sidney Beaty and Erin Hahn, have completed and shared their final report on the major issues that ultimately cause displacement.Beaty and Hahn join A Little Louder to talk about their conclusions after months of work, how a lack of data transparency hurts tenants, and what can be done to fix the crisis we're in.

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 they have found over a series of blogs – soon to be compiled into a report – is that through secrecy and a "profit is king" like culture, businesses are not just able to utilize eviction as a business tactic, but are often rewarded for it.Housers' Sidney Beaty and Erin Hahn joined the podcast to talk through what they have found on eviction in two of the largest cities in the nation and what the data tells us can and should change.

HUD's Continuum of Care program or CoCs are critical support systems for those who are either experiencing or nearing homelessness. These essential lifelines have been in jeopardy in the past few months due to funding reprioritization from the federal government. On this episode of A Little Louder, Hope Rodgers and Billy Streu from Texas Homeless Network join the show to talk through what CoCs actually do and what ground they cover, the issues with their Notice of Funding Opportunities, and where they all stand now.