Texas Legislature
The New Year’s Day after a Texas legislative session means some new laws in the Lone Star State, with more than a couple dozen going into effect. While most of what lawmakers passed last session related to housing and real estate came into force in September (we paid a good deal of attention to this…
Property tax collections are coming front and center in Texas this holiday season as state officials make calls to drastically reduce them even further, spurring concerns about the practical consequences. The feeling that property taxes are too high is a very common one in the Lone Star State. It’s literally one of those 80/20 issues,…
Don’t wait for 2027. That was the message often repeated at the Texas Municipal League’s 113th Annual Conference held last week at the Fort Worth Convention Center. More than 3,500 municipal employees and elected officials attended the three-day event that included a first-day welcome from Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker, where the overarching message was…
The notion of small government and local control has animated Texas politics for generations, but those days increasingly seem long gone. And when it comes to single-family neighborhoods, each new legislative session brings a slew of bad bills, at least according to the Texas Neighborhood Coalition. A veteran corporate attorney in the airline and tech…
WFAA reporters Jason Wheeler and Jason Whitley of Y’all-itics and Inside Texas Politics fame addressed housing activists and stakeholders on Thursday at the Mabel Peters Caruth Center, debriefing the crowd on the big-ticket items that came out of the Texas Legislature this past session. The event was put on by the North Texas Regional Housing…
