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Jobs, jobs everywhere—but where is the housing?
Source:
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When senior citizens must write notes like this for housing….
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🔁RETWEET🔁
🗳Vote YES on SB 1412🗳 to restore Texans' right to build an in-law suite, creating reasonably priced housing for retirees, nurses, teachers, firefighters and other Texans. 🚒🧑🏫👮♀️
Almost HALF of Texans spend more than 1/3 of their paycheck on housing costs. This
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🏘️ Dallas considering a HISTORIC move reducing their lot size to 1,500 square foot lots. This opened up 75 k Missing Middle units in Houston, when they enacted this same policy.
Hats 🎩 off to
@ChadWestDallas
!
@DMNOpinion
👇
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❗️MAJOR Texas Win for Housing❗️
Austin Council Members & Mayor vote 9-2 to PASS H.O.M.E. 3 homes (townhomes, granny flats, etc.) on 1 lot across Austin 👏👏👏
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↩️ RETWEET↩️ to restore Texans’ Right to own a home on a medium sized lot SB 1787, helping TX Middle Class. For far too long, Texas’s cities have required large lots of land, as big as 1 ☝️ Acre, forcing out Texas’s Middle Class workers: Manufacturing Workers, Firefighters and
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🔁RETWEET🔁
🏠Vote YES on SB 1412 🏠 to restore Texans' property rights to build an In-law Suite, increasing supply while creating reasonably priced housing for Texas's Senior Citizens and hardworking Middle Class.
#txlege
Take 30 seconds to tell your lawmaker!
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Hats off 🎩 to
#TXLege
for passage of 3rd Party Review! 👏
University of Texas Report suggests that 3.5 month delay of residential permits adds 5% ✋ to the final price tag of a home. The typical site plan review takes 1-2 years in Austin and 5-6 months in Dallas!
This bill
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Did Houston's reduction of lot size mandates from 5,000 to 1,400 square feet work?
ANSWER:
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RETWEET to Solve Our Workforce Housing Shortage for Working Texans, 👨👨👧👦 while restoring Texans' Property Rights.
#TXLege
Message Rep's HERE:
@lina4texas
@BurnsForTexas
@RogersForTexas
@CarlOShermanTX
@RepSchofield
@ronereynolds
@CBellJr
@BradBuckleyDVM
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Meet Brianna: a mom and preschool teacher who lives in an RV park with her son.
She can’t find housing within her means in Austin despite being approved for a mortgage and down payment assistance.
Her only other option is to move further away from Austin and drive a longer
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The Data Doesn’t Lie: Giving the property owner the right to create 3 townhomes on one lot previously REDUCES costs on each home by 40%, says
@brookingsinst
.
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Texas, Texans WANT to stay in Texas. Can we build homes so Texans can stay here? 🤠
#TXLege
Fascinating chart from the Dallas Fed measuring "stickiness" of each state-- the share of natives still living in that state.
Those born in Texas are MOST likely to still be living there.
Those born in Wyoming are LEAST likely to still be living there.
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✅ RETWEET & ✅TAG your TX Senator,
Texas is so CLOSE to making commonsense reforms that will help Texas’ Middle Class own a home while easing the Housing Crisis! 🏘️ 🏘️ 🏘️
We strongly 💪 urge
#txlege
to pass SB 1787 and HB 3921!
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Do YOU support Supply and Demand solutions to Housing Affordability for Texas’s Workforce & Middle Class? Houses for…
State Employees 👨🏫
Police Officers 👮♀️
Senior citizens 👴
If YES, *RETWEET* to express your support for
@justinaholland
‘s
#HB2789
and hashtag
#TXLege
👍
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Meet Marcus 🤝 a Texan state worker who had no choice but to move to Houston to have any real chance of Home Ownership. 🇺🇸
Austin’s land use laws, like the req’d lot size of 5,750 SF makes Middle Class housing impossible.
#TXLege
THANK you!
@GoldmanCraig
@TeamBettencourt
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HAPPENING NOW: Austinites showed up in force to testify for more missing middle housing in Austin!
“To be honest I should be studying for my midterms, but I am here supporting the HOME proposal. To be honest my midterms are a lost cause.”—
@ShivMistry_21
, junior at UT Austin &
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Hate inflation?
Build more housing.
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Meet Brianna, preschool teacher 🧑🏫 and mom who lives in an RV park in Cedar Creek, TX. She drives 🚗 1 hour to teach daily. Unless one has another major income stream, teachers are priced out bc of misguided land use laws.
#txlege
#TexasismyHome
#LegalizeHousing
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Opponents say HOME and similar policies will cause displacement. They're wrong.
According to Pew Research, enabling smaller lot housing REDUCES displacement. During lot size reform in Houston, Hispanic and Black populations INCREASED relative to other major cities.
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↩️RETWEET ↩️ What could be more pro-Texan, pro-Middle Class, pro-Property Rights, pro-Senior Citizen than allowing a homeowner to build a pool house in their very own backyard? 🏡
SB 1412 (Hughes) would restore Middle Class Texans’ right to build a pool house AKA in-law suite
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🛑 IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Over 100 TX Business, Org. and Thought Leaders Pen Letter to
#TXLege
Leadership
@GregAbbott_TX
,
@DanPatrick
&
@DadePhelan
: MORE HOUSING IS NEEDED 🏘️. (23&Me Founder, Whole Foods Founder, Grimes + More)
RETWEET + include "
#TXLege
"
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AUSTIN: Take 2️⃣ minutes and write a letter to the Austin City Council in support of the HOME initiative:
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@CtZepeda
It’s actually more financially sustainable for cities to create smaller lots. The funds from smaller lots goes back into utility construction. It’s far cheaper to add on to existing utilities than building existing ones from scratch. Also this bill exempts homes where water and
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For Housing Supply and Demand Deniers: More data showing Increase in Housing Stock leads to Decrease in Rent.
3% increase in metro area housing stock decreases rent by 2%. More housing DOES in fact lead to affordability.
Thanks
@salimfurth
for data.
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UPDATE:
@GregAbbott_TX
signed HB14 into law 🖊️ streamlining housing permits. 👏
Research demonstrates this bill will reduce housing costs in major cities like Austin and Dallas by 5-25%!
Thanks to all the hard work of our key coalition partners!
#txlege
Hats off 🎩 to
#TXLege
for passage of 3rd Party Review! 👏
University of Texas Report suggests that 3.5 month delay of residential permits adds 5% ✋ to the final price tag of a home. The typical site plan review takes 1-2 years in Austin and 5-6 months in Dallas!
This bill
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The data doesn’t lie: a painfully strong relationship between the most sever housing shortages and overregulation. Thanks
@ebwhamilton
for the graph ✨
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Dallas City Council Member
@ChadWestDallas
applauds Austin for lot size reform from req’d 5,750 square feet to 2,500 sf: 🏘️
“I’m very inspired by what Austin did with the reduction of their lot size.”
Might
@CityOfDallas
reform their lot size, like Houston and Austin?
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@Grimezsz
Additionally, the number one thing cities can do to help the environment is INFILL aka build densely within cities.
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7-2 WIN for moderate lot sizes of 2,500 square foot just a few minutes ago 🇺🇸 💥
This is a WIN for
✅ EMTs, police and teachers who struggle to afford Austin
✅ small businesses struggling to pay workers who struggle to stay in Austin
✅Senior citizens who are driven out of
Austin City Council looks to make it easier to build more affordable/sustainable housing types which by default breeds misinformation
What was your favorite excuse against these common sense items?
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Time is Money: How bureaucratic delays jack up housing prices as the housing shortage kicks people out of the housing market🕰 🚧
If developers receive approval within 4 months, instead of the current timeframe, renters would see a 4-5% decrease on their rents- it’s that easy.
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⚠️Warning ⚠️ Texas:
“As much as Texans drag California for its rising costs and falling population, the state could soon face a similar housing crunch absent zoning reform”
@mnolangray
writes in
@Bloomberg
@CityLab
#txlege
@GregAbbott_TX
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More housing = Less homelessness 👨👩👧👦🏡
BREAKING: US homelessness up 12% to highest reported level as rents soar and coronavirus pandemic aid lapses
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Take a walk with Cutter through his neighborhood in Houston. More housing on medium-sized lots IS beautiful… and crucial for our middle-class Texans like nurses, teachers and EMTs.
Want to see more middle housing in Austin?
Sign up here:
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In Dallas, permitting delays for homes cost each unit $200 per day. One month= $6,000. 🏗️🏗️🏗️
@dallasnews
discusses the impact 3rd party review would have on affordability.
#txlege
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Texas, let’s make sure we avoid the policy decisions
#California
made, driving out their middle class and workforce in droves…
#TXLege
As a Californian, how do you look at a chart like this and not question every land-use policy made over the last 60 years?
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DALLAS: City Council needs to hear from YOU!
Take 60 seconds and write a letter in support of minimum lot size reform to allow more missing middle housing in Dallas 👇
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👩⚕️🚑🧑🎓
Do you think nurses, EMTs and young professionals should have a SHOT at homeownership in Austin? 🇺🇸
Use the link below to take 30 seconds to tell
@KirkPWatson
& Council Members to vote YES on the HOME proposal allowing 3 homes on one unit bi-right. 👇👇👇
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Anti-Housers Red Herring: Will a city have enough infrastructure for the new folks in an upzone?
Short answer: It is much cheaper to add to existing infrastructure than building entirely new infrastructure in suburbs. The fiscally responsible thing for states to do is UPZONE.
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@Grimezsz
See study below. Housing is a supply and demand problem, less housing supply will turn into painful housing prices (and problems) of SF where you need $1.7 million net worth to live comfortably.
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⤵️ RETWEET if you agree…
Texas housing prices will get as 🙈EXPENSIVE 🙈as California prices if we don’t address land use laws ASAP 👇
@WalkableAustin
@ebwhamilton
@businessinsider
#txlege
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YES on ADUs= YES for Senior Texans Retirement Plan 🗳️ 👴
#TXLege
🙏
@justinaholland
&
@SenBryanHughes
“72% of middle income seniors won’t be able to afford assisted living in the coming years.”
@ebwhamilton
&
@ncoxbarrett
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Whether you testified to City Council, wrote a letter, shared our posts on social, or talked to your loved ones about missing middle housing--you made this WIN possible.
Thank you for being on the team.
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@dallasnews
op-ed: "Restricting accessory dwelling units and preserving minimum lot-size regulations and height restrictions won’t turn Pasadena (Texas) into Pasadena (California) overnight. But in the long run, the Californication of Texas housing policy
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How did Houston create 75,000 Missing Middle units between 2005-2018? 🎩 🏘️
It’s not rocket 🚀 science 🧪… Houston gave property owners the right to determine their own lot size 1,400 square feet and above 👆
#TXLege
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🤝Meet Yamini, she and her husband CAN'T afford a home in San Antonio despite being a double-income family.
Sign up here if you think it's time to build more housing and make it possible for Texans to BE middle class 👇
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The MYTH of Missing Middle Opponents’ Argument: Smaller lots and condominiums will create more expensive housing, driving out existing residents (INACCURATE)
#txlege
See data below to understand how flawed that reasoning is 👇 👇👇
@mnolangray
@ShaneDPhillips
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Is it a coincidence that the major TX metros w/ the lower required lot sizes have the lower home prices?
#TXLege
👨👩👦
NO. Lower req’d lot sizes enable the TX Middle Class to afford the American Dream of a home 🇺🇸 🏘️
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AUSTIN: Do you care about young families 👨👩👧👦staying here? Seniors? 👴Young professionals? 👨⚕️
Join the list of orgs and send a letter NOW!
🚀 momentum alert 🚀 HOME Initiative gaining support from fantastic orgs! please share!
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Will YOU take 30 seconds to ✅ Sign and ✅ Retweet the petition below to send a message to Texas politicians: The Rents are Too Damn High! Let’s make sure our teachers, firefighters and nurses can afford to live here.
Sign below: 🖊
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Why does
@AARP
of Austin support HOME? 👵👴🏡
“ The population of older Austinites continues to grow, so it's important to create various housing options. Older homeowners who want to sell their homes and move into a more affordable, compact, and
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SUCCESS from a similar policy to HOME in Portland. The difference? Portland allowed 6 homes on a lot, versus Austin’s 3.
Austin will allow more homes on one plot of land in the pursuit of cheaper housing.
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🎩🎩🎩
Hats off to Texas State Legislators championing policies supporting Free Market and Supply and Demand principles in solving TX's housing shortage, specifically
@SenBryanHughes
@GoldmanCraig
@TeamBettencourt
@ColeHefnerTX
! 👏👏👏
#TXLege
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“Although my parents are hard workers, the ability to purchase a home at a reasonable price helped set them on the path to financial stability and success. Had my parents moved to a less affordable city like New York City or San Francisco, our family's story may have gone a
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🚨 URGENT ACTION ALERT🚨
To pass meaningful legislation to build homes for Texas’s Middle Class, take ONE ☝️ minute to contact your legislator re: Minimum Lot Size Reform. 🏘️
👇 👇 👇
Retweet and tell a Friend to do the same 🗣️
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We agree with Professor Wegmann:
"Minimum lot sizes are driving up housing costs throughout Texas, at a time when our state's longstanding housing affordability advantage over other booming states is in serious jeopardy."
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AUSTIN: Sign up here to speak in support of HOME on December 7th:
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Can you guess what this Harvard Economist diagnoses as the main reason for housing unaffordability?
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🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨
@DallasHabitat
discussing a recent plot of land purchased that COULD be 60 homes instead of the lesser 30 if land use laws ALLOWED a more moderate lot size.
#txlege
#habitatforhumanity
Big thanks to legislators who supported the moderate lot size bill from
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Dallas is ready for meaningful reform to bring down high housing costs. 🏘️
Huge thank you to
@ChadWestDallas
for his leadership on this issue and to
@JesseForDallas
for calling this important meeting.
Dallas, stay tuned for more updates and how YOU can get involved.
Inbox: Amid Dallas' housing affordability crisis, a city council committee headed by
@JesseForDallas
will discuss how to allow more homes to be built
The proposals:
-Allowing up to 4 units on single-family lots
-Reducing the city's minimum lot size for single-family homes
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The Data Doesn't Lie...
The relationship between Complexity of Land Use Laws & Expensive Housing
#TXLege
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Hats off to Texas Legislators like
@justinaholland
fighting for Texans’ Private Property Rights and Housing for TX’s Workforce 👏 🎩 👏
Too many hardworking workers at
#TXlege
continue to drive 1 hour every day bc Austin has outregulated housing.
It’s time to act 🗳️
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Please ✋ heed ✋ this important message Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
:
NO housing growth 🏘️ ➡️ NO economic growth 🌇, writes
@rclikeacolaand
@nthnryn
in
@MyABJ
Solution:
#TXLege
must encourage different kinds of housing, and more of it.
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WELL SAID 📝 Letter to the Editor in
@AustinChronicle
: “Please don't listen to the irrational fears of those who see every new building as the apocalypse. Call your Council member to voice your support for the HOME initiative and bring the benefits of greater density to all of
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💦 Smaller lots HELP with water quality in cities, say experts.
The EPA recommends *against* using Austin style stir water management because the SOS ordinance does not actually help.
#TXLege
@sarah_eckhardt
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.
@dallasnews
got the MEMO! 📔 Did you⁉️ 3rd Party Review becomes law FRIDAY: "Time really is money in this case. And it’s also lost opportunity. Projects, businesses and residents that might now be in Dallas are somewhere else."
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How many teachers, EMS workers, and service professionals are being priced out of the American Dream of home ownership?
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Where Texas is headed if we don’t pass laws that are pro-people and pro-land use 👇👇👇
"The cost of building a single unit of affordable housing in San Jose over the past year exploded by 24 percent, from $757,900 to $938,700 — a three-fold jump compared to relatively routine annual increases over the last decade and a half."
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In the next 🕰️ 24 hours, 🕰️ the Texas house will decide whether pro- Middle Class, pro-Property Rights oriented legislation will make a dent 🔨 in Texas’s housing affordability crisis. HELP below 👇
Take 30 seconds to SUPPORT, click HERE:
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Plainly put: The state that wins on housing policy wins overall, finds The Wall Street Journal Ed board. Solution: Build more housing ASAP.
#TXLege
🏘️🏗️
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Our chair discusses housings’ KEY 🔐 role in Texas’s business success, in
@ManhattanInst
@CityJournal
. ✍️ ✍️ ✍️
In one major city, ADU construction OUTPACED home construction-demonstrating demand among Texan workers and retirees for ADUs…
#TXLege
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More businesses moving to Texas 👏
Now,
#TXLege
, where will put the additional 1,000 employees? 🤷♀️
Put simply, housing growth is NOT keeping up with population growth. Texas’s economic growth WILL be capped if we don’t adjust laws.
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Big thanks to the 🇺🇸Republican and Democrat🇺🇸 leaders who voted for Property Rights for the Texan Middle Class and Housing Affordability in their district! The in-law suite bill was short just 2 votes, 68-70, which tells us that some
#TXLege
leaders ARE in touch w/ the struggles
NEW: Bills to build more homes — and lower housing costs — died a quiet death in final days of the Texas Legislature
Texas Dems played a key role in killing one of the bills
@TexasTribune
#txlege
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Is it a surprise West Lake Hills has a median home value of almost $3 million when the city won’t allow an 8 acre peice of land to be subdivided into 6 units?
#TXLege
Private property rights anyone? Middle Class?
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Austin resident Tina explains her support for the HOME initiative, sharing how updating our zoning laws can encourage the development of MORE missing middle housing, reduce gentrification, and build an Austin for EVERYONE. 🏘️
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Texans for Reasonable Solutions team tours an ADU in Houston w amazing
@HoustonHabitat
team. The ADU will be used for an adult family member with disabilities— making costs easier on the family. 👏 👏 👏
Cost:
$30,000 for construction of the in-law unit
$7,500 for permit for
first ever (known) Habitat for Humanity ADU in TX u/c in H-town go
@HoustonHabitat
!! 👏 🔨
#build
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Time is Money, adding 4-5% to homes’ price tag from permit delays🕰️
Bravo 👏to
@CodyforTexas
and
@TeamBettencourt
for their SOLUTION “… circumvent[ing] the bottleneck that exists in municipal governments.”
@JamesQuinteroTX
#txlege
👇
@reason
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Sign up here to speak in support of HOME on December 7th:
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🛑 Attention 🛑
Housing supply and demand deniers…check this out: There is no city in America that builds a lot of housing and is expensive.
There are cities that build lots of housing and where housing is cheap (green).
There are cities that build little housing and are expensive (purple).
There is no city in America that builds lots of housing and is also expensive. That giant red box is completely empty.
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Is More Housing The Answer To an Affordable Housing Crisis?
Answer 👇👇👇
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Legislators: A plea to solve this housing crisis ASAP. There is so much we can do from shortening permit wait times to revisiting local land use laws from the 1980s🏠
Hoping
@sarah_eckhardt
,
@EllenTroxclair
,
@jamestalarico
, and
@SherylCole1
take a look!
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Lot size matters, when it comes to Texas’ housing affordability, says
@RyanPuzycki
in
@SouthernUrb
.
#TXLege
“At just $340,000, the median price for a single-family home in Houston is significantly cheaper than Austin’s $570,000. The pattern holds
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The American Dream of homeownership …and Rentorship…is Threatened 👇
“The number of Americans aged 25–34 living at home has jumped over 87% in the past two decades, per census data.”
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ICYMI:
“The HOME Act Will Help Keep Austin Affordable and the American Dream Alive”👇
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For Texas to keep growing, we need laws that allow home construction fast enough to accommodate this great Texas growth 🏡🏗️🏡🏗️
#TXLege
The saying "everything is bigger in Texas" apparently includes population. According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Texas has the fastest-growing population of any state in the country!
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Britney, mother of 2, was priced out of Austin. Austin’s restrictive housing policies continue to drive families out of major metropolitans like Austin in droves.
#TXLege
#TexasismyHome
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Anoosh testified in support of HOME, sharing how flexible housing options directly benefited her family. When she was younger, her family lived with her grandmother. During that time, her grandmother built a fourplex where she lived as well as aunts and uncles and their
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Montana did it… our turn
#TXlege
“The pro-housing reforms supported by our legislature will protect Montana’s rural areas and ranch land from California-style urban sprawl by providing more freedom to landowners to build affordable starter homes in cities.” - Frontier President & CEO,
@Cotton_MT
#mtpol
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@619JoeBlow
@ChappellJerre
@ChrisGTurner
@RepMaryGonzalez
@TerryCanales40
@RafaelAnchia
@BucyForTexas
@Senfronia4Texas
@TMFtx
No tax money to make this happen. This would be through the Free market!
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More data that increasing housing supply WORKS! 🏘️
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☕️ 🤝 Meet Jasmine, your local Dallas barista who wonders how she, and other service industry workers, can afford to live in Dallas when all she has is $200 after paying rent every month.
#txlege
Who served your coffee this morning? ☕️ ⁉️
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How can cities use the free market to instantaneously create homes that are 35% of the rent of single family homes?
#TXLege
ANSWER: In-Law Suites or ADU
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We NEED folks like YOU to get the HOME proposal over the finish line 🏁 in Austin by speaking to City Council for 2 ✌️ minutes
This will allow 3 homes on one unit BI-RITE 🏠🏠🏠
Sign up here to learn HOW to testify 👇👇👇
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If you’re curious 🧐 about the play by play of how Missing Middle housing bills ended up this session, read this 👇
The good news is one bill IS sitting on
@GregAbbott_TX
‘s desk, awaiting his signature: 3rd party review. 🖊️
#txlege
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Do YOU want Texans to be able to stay in Texas homes? 🫵
Do SOMETHING about it: Take 30 seconds to sign up NOW
👇👇👇
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