Texans for Housing

🚨 BREAKING: Texas Just ENDED the Tyrant’s Veto 🛑 THANK YOU @Burrows4TX, @GregAbbott_TX, @SenBryanHughes and @AngeliaOrrForTX 👏 With the passage of HB 24, we’ve restored fairness to local zoning decisions and protected your right to build on your own land. Here’s what changed: 🔻 Neighbor protest threshold raised: Before, just 20% of nearby landowners could block a rezoning for missing middle housing. Now it takes 60%—a much fairer standard. 🔻 Supermajority vote repealed: Cities used to need a 75% supermajority to override neighbor protests. Now, a simple majority is all it takes—just like budgets, police contracts, and everything else. Why it matters: This outdated rule killed homes for @Habitat_org, student housing, missing middle housing. It drove up costs and let a vocal tyrannical minorities stop homes everyone else needed. ✅ More homes ✅ Stronger property rights ✅ Local democracy restored HB 24 puts Texans—not NIMBYs—back in charge. 🏡 #txlege #HB24 #housing #PropertyRights #EndTheVeto

"Our housing platform can be summed up by saying that #txhousing affordability is one of our state's greatest competitive advantages. Rising home prices threaten that advantage, and to improve affordability, we need to build more of everything," said @egbd27 in #txlege testimony last week. Emily testified in support of Rep. @angelia_orr's HB 24, which reforms a 100-year-old statute that gives neighbors outsized control over nearby housing projects.

SB 710 from @SenEckhardt just passed the Senate unanimously! It lets Planning Commissions use online message boards (with safeguards) to boost transparency and communication. Now it’s headed to the House with @BucyForTexas carrying the torch. #TXLege

The Texas Senate just passed a bill aimed at making it easier to build homes in places that now only allow office, commercial, retail and warehouse development The bill passed by a 24-6 vote and now heads to the House #txlege

My Statement on the Bipartisan Passage of Senate Bill 15 – Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing: ow.ly/LYlw50Vl95y #txlege

The avg. age of a homebuyer is now 54 years old in the country and this is approaching a crisis point—this cannot go up to 64 years old or higher! TX families need real housing affordability now! My SB 15, SB 840 (@SenBryanHughes), and SB 854 (@mayes_middleton) cut through gov’t. red tape like a hot knife through butter! SB 15, a priority bill of @LtGovTX will lower costs by increasing supply of homes in about 3 dozen Texas Cities by lowering land cost and providing incentives for builders using lots less than 4K SQFT. SB 840 will allow better utilization of commerical office building conversion to residential properties, and SB 854 allows faith-based organizations to bring on new improvements value on the tax rolls by building condos, etc... All these bills are designed to bring on more supply to meet the Housing Demands of today’s and future Texans! It’s time for #txlege to pass all three of these bills, as it will take many different solutions to solve this problem, however, let's get unneeded Government Regulations out of the way! Testimony is still going and you can watch it live here: senate.texas.gov/videoplayer.ph…