Texas has lost thousands of affordable apartments as owners convert HUD-assisted housing to market-rate rents. We organize tenants to save and improve their homes. Some properties are preserved and improved through HUD's "Mark-to-Market" program, some through Texas' Housing Preservation Program, and others simply through determined tenant groups winning cooperation from HUD and/or owners.

Tenants in HUD-assisted housing have a right to organize and extensive federal regulations protecting that right.

For a list of properties in the Mark-to-Market program (alphabetically by state), go to: http://www.hud.gov/offices/omhar/readingrm/reports.cfm and click on "PAE and Assigned Property Status Report."

Other useful information/organizations on HUD housing issues:
National Alliance of HUD Tenants
National Housing Law Project
National Housing Trust
Housing Preservation Project
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
National Low Income Housing Coalition
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs' Preservation Program
Southwest Housing Compliance Corporation (The Contract Administrator for many Section 8 properties in Texas)