rental market

The National Low Income Housing Coalition says the Dallas area has less affordable housing for low-income renters than most U.S. cities.

The settlement money will be returned to renters harmed by unlawful behavior if approved by a federal judge, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday.

Denton residents will now have a right to air conditioning after the City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to require air conditioning in all rental properties.

A city staff report shows that about 23% of single-family homes in Fort Worth are commercially owned. Most of the owners are local.

The report details charges Texas tenants face on top of rent that are often hidden, duplicative, or exceed the actual cost of services, driving up housing costs.

A new report finds a massive shortage in Texas of rental homes affordable to extremely low-income renter households — one of the worst in the nation..

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

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.

The National Low-Income Housing Coalition reports that low-income Texans face a housing market where truly affordable rent is largely out of reach.

The ordinance mostly maintains the rules previously established by the city. Council members voted unanimously to continue to allow short-term rentals only in mixed-use and commercial areas.

Fort Worth City Council chose to keep its ban on short-term rentals in residential areas, which has been a hot button issue for months. The council will also vote on a registration ordinance in January that requires legal short-term rentals in mixed-use and commercial areas to register with the city and pay hotel occupancy tax.

Fort Worth has a ban on short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods, but that ban isn't widely enforced. Visitors to the city still have plenty of options when it comes to a weekend stay, especially in the popular Fairmount neighborhood, where some residents say they're losing their homes to Airbnbs.