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Houston Chronicle reporters Marissa Luck and Rebecca Schuetz talk to the region's developers, deal makers and dreamers about all things Houston and real estate.
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These podcast episodes will feature great tips, ideas, opinions, reviews on product/services, different laws/codes/rules, constitutional issues, and the 360 greediness from those against human rights, true freedom of speech. Furthermore, the flawed ideology of no one is above the law, except dem!
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Office buildings in the South can be notoriously cold in the summer months – or at least that’s what a majority of women would say who jokingly refer to offices in the summer as “women’s winter.” This year as more companies return to the office amid record heatwaves and requests by ERCOT for Texans to reduce electricity usage, we ask why office bui…
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Breaking down Houston's battle over feeding the homeless
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A group of volunteers that, for nearly two decades, has offered free meals four evenings a week outside Central Library has recently started getting fined for breaking city law. The 2012 law, which limits giving free meals to those in need, has been deeply controversial and had gone largely unenforced for over a decade. Food Not Bombs volunteers sa…
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Is River Oaks losing its history as homes are razed?
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Description: The recent demolition of a $24 million historic home by Astros owner Jim Crane renewed conversations about the preservation of the iconic River Oaks neighborhood. Since its founding in the 1920s, the high-income Houston enclave became a quiet retreat from the rest of the city where the wealthy invested in building beautiful, architectu…
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After much political wrangling and not one, but two special legislative sessions, the Texas legislature has finally agreed on a property tax relief bill. It has something in it for all property owners -- not only homeowners, but also investors and businesses -- and legislators argue that it will trickle down to renters. Austin bureau reporter Jaspe…
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Not your average subdivision: How master-planned communities are rethinking development
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Master-planned communities are playing an increasingly important role in housing families priced out of urban cores. How do designers and developers go about planning the future of these massive mini cities to respond to the growing risk of climate change and housing affordability concerns – while also making these communities pleasant places to li…
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Adult dorms? Why coliving is growing in the South
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Living with roommates has long been a way to save money on housing. In the past decade or so though, a new class of professionally managed roommate housing has emerged called coliving – think of -up version of college dorms. Coliving providers take the typical hassles out of roommate living while giving residents a quick way to meet new people and …
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Landlords can save $1M with this affordable housing tax break, but what's in it for renters?
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R.A. Schuetz and Marissa Luck discuss a tax break meant to create affordable housing that's in the center of some controversy. Public Facility Corporations have drawn scrutiny both in Houston (we'll hear about some tense words between Mayor Sylvester Turner and the housing authority) and in the state Capitol, where the Texas legislators are battlin…
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Here's the next frontier in real estate's battle against climate change
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The real estate sector is one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions globally – and it’s not just because of the power used to electrify or cool a building. Creating and transporting all of the materials that go into a building is a huge source of carbon emissions that the industry is now trying to reel in by tracking what’s known …
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Could conservation districts give residents more say in a city famous for no zoning?
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Mayor Sylvester Turner is seeking City Council support for a conservation district program he and city planners say could help lower-income neighborhoods preserve their character and fend off gentrification. Critics say it may end up causing gentrification. Marissa Luck and R.A. Schuetz speak with Yilun Cheng, City Council reporter at the Houston C…
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Why we're still talking about the Ashby high-rise 16 years later
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There’s a new project proposed in the site of The Ashby high-rise, a contentious apartment tower first pitched 16 years ago that set off one of the most intense land-use battles in Houston’s history. We dive into the history of The Ashby, and provide an update on The Langley, the revised version of the project, which developers say is close to brea…
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What to expect for Houston’s shifting housing market in 2023
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After the pandemic’s housing boom, which spurred bidding wars and drove up home prices to dizzying highs, the market has shifted. Interest rates have risen, inflation has eaten away at budgets and some economists have forecasted a recession. As many would-be homebuyers have been priced out of the market, fewer people are competing to buy. What does…
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How a proposed Chinese investor ban could impact Houston real estate
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Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the country with a large population of Chinese residents who have helped to contribute to thriving commercial corridors such as Asiatown near Bellaire and Asiantown near Katy. How would SB 147 -- a proposed law barring citizens and companies from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran from buying real estat…
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What it's like to learn the internet thinks you're dead? A HOA duck feud's latest twist
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Nearly five months after a Houston Chronicle story about a retired couple's battle with their HOA over feeding the ducks gets picked up by outlets around the globe, the reporter gets a call from the couple's daughter. While Mrs. Rowe and her lawyer said that they had begun feeding the ducks after the loss of their daughter, the Rowe's daughter is i…
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Houston's biggest eviction prevention effort is ending. What lessons can we learn?
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A nationwide, $47 billion effort to prevent evictions during the pandemic is winding down, leaving tenants to cope with higher rents amid inflation. How well did emergency rental assistance, which funneled aid through local and state programs, work? Looped In hosts R.A. Schuetz and Marissa Luck interview Erin Hahn, a researcher from a tenant advoca…
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Sinking homes, toxic soil: Why the ground under your house matters
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Some homeowners in Houston are dealing with a host of unexpected environmental issues - from discovering years after purchasing their homes that their land was sinking underneath them to learning there are still cancer risks tied to old school industrial developments nearby. As Houston Chronicle’s environmental reporter Emily Foxhall departs, we si…
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Buffalo Bayou East will transform East End. Why affordable housing is the first step.
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An ambitious $310 million transformation of the eastern side of Buffalo Bayou gets underway this week as Buffalo Bayou Partnership -- which developed the 160-acre Buffalo Bayou Park between Allen Parkway and Memorial Drive -- breaks ground on the first piece of its decade-long plan to transform the stretch of the bayou east of downtown. But the gro…
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The Medical Aspect of the Social Security Act for the “political subdivision of the State”
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This episode discusses the different medical insurance eligibility requirements for the State to receive funding. Who usually qualifies under the political subdivision of the State and how the Act entraps the State into attacking itself against its own “political subdivision,” little do it knows or cares about, in order to receive funding fraudulen…
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A behind-the-scenes look at East River, one of Houston's most highly anticipated projects now
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Houston’s East End is in the midst of massive change as the neighborhood once dominated by industrial buildings and small bungalows is turning into a hub for mixed-use developments, apartments and adaptive reuse projects. A major catalyst of the East End’s transformation was sparked by East River, the 150-acre mixed-use development by Midway rising…
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What Harvey did (and didn’t) teach us about building in the floodplain
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Meyerland, built on former rice fields in southwest Houston, was one of Houston’s earliest master-planned communities promising to bring suburban life relatively close to the city. But the neighborhood has been repeatedly ravaged by floods, with some of the worst damage occurring in Hurricane Harvey five years ago. Even though Meyerland shows us th…
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What a controversy in Beyonce's old neighborhood tells us about historic districts
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In a city with virtually no official zoning, the ability to create a historic district over a particular neighborhood is supposed to be a key tool Houstonians can use to preserve the character of a place. But in the case of one historically Black community in Houston’s Third Ward, called Riverside Terrace, residents were convinced a proposed histor…
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This episode discusses how Anchor has docked my "unique listeners" numbers, from the previous episode. For Anchor, you need to have 50 unique listeners, but if Anchor is going to deduct your listeners' count; then it will take longer for you to get to 50. Therefore, make sure to document your unique listeners on a regular basis to make sure that yo…
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Update on my podcast stats, most popular episodes, and discussing an upcoming episode for delivery shoppers!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kargalettalolitadavis/message
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This episode gives you a list of shady entities. Forget about using "employer debit cards" for your direct deposits! Forget about using these pretend banks that are using your personal information for their employees' and the entities benefit. Run, don't walk! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kargalettalolitadavi…
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How a nonprofit puts the "choice" back in housing choice vouchers
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A federal program is meant to give low-income families the freedom to choose where they live. But most landlords are not interested in participating, put off by requirements such as lengthy inspection periods and the prospect that the voucher might not meet them where the market is, relegating families with vouchers to the few properties that accep…
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Be Careful About Giving Your Personal Information
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This episode is about be careful about giving your personal information, especially to others individual/s who does not give their personal information about them or their families. It doesn't matter if they are claiming to be government employees, organizations, corporations, or etc with no proof of their claim nor can we the public verify anythin…
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This episode discusses a short update, talks about staying strong and not giving up or feeling hopeless. Briefly discussing systems of control to make or treat others as inferior, whether these individuals are working in government, at your job, or etc. Discussing how different corporations, agencies, or etc pretend that their corporation, agencies…
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Why downtown Houston will never be the same
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More than two years after lockdowns turned downtown into an apocalyptic landscape of darkened towers and deserted streets, downtown Houston is coming back to life. While it hasn’t completely recovered yet, people are once again crowding into Astro’s games, catching concerts at Jones Hall, cruising through Discovery Green Park and converging at larg…
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FOMO, and why that phrase “housing bubble” keeps bubbling up
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A new paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas warns we may be in a housing bubble, driven by fear of missing out (FOMO) in the market as prices surge and mortgage rates rise. But it’s a tricky thing defining a bubble, and even then, bubbles don't necessarily pop — Rebecca Schuetz and Marissa Luck talk to Enrique Martinez-Garcia and Laila Assani…
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