Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas July 9, 2025 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune and Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land...
Texas House Advances Bill to Allow Homes on Smaller Lots May 30, 2025 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune The Texas House gave a thumbs Wednesday to a bill allowing smaller homes on smaller lots in Texas’ biggest cities,...
Texas Legislators Seek Solutions to Rising Home Insurance Rates May 9, 2025 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune Texas lawmakers hope to rein in homeowners’ rising insurance bills even as they acknowledge there’s only so much they can...
Texas Bill Would Allow Vacant Offices to be Converted Into Dwellings February 21, 2025 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune As Texas’ major urban areas grapple with a glut of vacant offices, state lawmakers may make it easier to transform...
Texas Faces Need for Hundreds of Thousands of Homes to Address Housing Shortage September 5, 2024 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune If Texas wants to rein in its high housing costs, it needs more homes, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office said...
Coastal Texas Braces for Insurance Rate Increase at Upcoming TWIA Meeting July 31, 2024 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the state’s insurer of last resort for homes and businesses on the Gulf Coast, will...
Insurance Costs Contributing to Texas Housing Affordability Crisis June 26, 2024 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune More Texas homeowners and renters than ever are struggling with high housing costs — and the state’s high home prices...
Texas Cities Rethink Minimum Parking Rules March 21, 2024 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune In car-dependent Texas, most cities have rules on how many parking spots must be built anywhere people live, play or...
Texas Panhandle Ranchers Look to Rebuild After Wildfires March 6, 2024 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune and Neelam Bohra, The Texas Tribune CANADIAN — Farmers and ranchers in the Panhandle lost livestock, buildings and infrastructure in the wildfires still raging through the...
Many Texas Panhandle Homes Burned in Wildfires Weren’t Insured March 5, 2024 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune FRITCH — Many Panhandle residents whose dwellings and possessions burned in the region’s ongoing wildfires may never financially recover for...