To date, Houston is made up of 58% renters and Harris County is made up of 45% renters.

Julia Orduña, the southeast Texas regional director at Texas Housers, joins me to talk about current policy education and how we can organize for protections.

Key acronyms:

• HUD — Housing and Urban Development
• HHA — Houston Housing Authority
• LIHTC — Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
• TDHCA - Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

After you find out who your landlord is and which government agency gives funds to the landlords, you can submit a complaint. To submit a complaint about your apartment to TDHC, visit these links:

1. https://www.tdhca.texas.gov/tdhca-complaint-process 
2. https://public.tdhca.state.tx.us/pub/t_complaint.complaint_add1

Texas Housers is a statewide nonprofit that focuses on housing and neighborhood issues. These issues impact low-income homeowners and renters' ability to access a safe, decent, and dignified home in the neighborhood of their choosing. As regional director, Julia focuses on housing affordability, lack of access to safe and dignified housing, and climate impacts in Houston and the surrounding areas. Her work in the organization shines a light on current issues pertaining to disaster recovery and how to address the housing need in a more efficient and equitable manner.

Join the tenant movement with Houston Tenants Union.

Listen to Part I of this series where Faye, a former resident of Uvalde Ranch Apartments, speaks to her experience of navigating housing after a climate disaster: Climate Intersection: Navigating Housing After Hurricane Beryl