In North Texas, 764 homeless veterans moved into long-term housing this year, part of the 38,000 veterans housed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs this year.

Mesquite resident Finda Koroma risks losing her home. In Texas, homeowners associations can foreclose on residents to recoup any amount of debt.

Texas has the second-highest rate of residents at risk of going hungry in the nation. That bleak ranking comes from new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Delays and spiraling costs on a plan to renovate an old North Oak Cliff hotel to provide homes for unhoused people drew the ire of council members on Monday.

The effort reduced the number of people on the streets, attracted even more federal resources, and streamlined the system to help people.

Air conditioning feels like a must-have in brutally hot Texas. For renters, legally, it’s not — at least not everywhere in the state.

Dallas will receive $9.4 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to prevent young people from becoming homeless, and to reduce the time unhoused young people spend on the street when they do lose housing.

A growing coalition of business leaders, community groups, nonprofits and others is pushing for Dallas to spend big to curb its shortage of affordable housing.

The city has eight buckets of money to help people who don’t make a lot of money pay for needed home improvements, each with slightly different rules and eligibility.

House Bill 2127 has massive — though ill-defined — implications for local governments. But it's not clear when Texans might start seeing its impacts.

A tenant can’t withhold rent to force their landlord to fix a broken air conditioner or make a necessary repair, but they can take them to court to force a fix.

Eviction filings have surged in the wake of the pandemic, but those numbers only count formal cases filed in courts. It's not clear how many people are forced out when landlords shut off their air conditioning or harass them, tenants' rights advocates say.