Joshua Fechter

If not carefully vetted, candidates’ proposals to lower costs could exacerbate future affordability issues, experts say.

Lawmakers gutted an old state law that required a city council supermajority to approve a new housing development if neighbors petitioned the proposal.

Rising costs, slowing tax revenue and a sluggish economy have saddled some of Texas’ biggest cities with multimillion-dollar deficits.

Some cities are trying to make it more difficult to build apartments under a new housing law.

The laws, which make it easier to build apartments, face stiff resistance from North Texas suburbs. State lawmakers vow to force cities to comply.

North Texas is growing and Dallas’ financial sector is booming. But the city is losing residents and businesses — and two major sports franchises are departing the urban core.

Americans aren’t having enough children to maintain the country’s population, a decline driven by factors like the high cost of living.

Some Republican Texas House members floated want to give more power to the attorney general to sue cities and issue financial penalties.

More than 130 cities, most with fewer than 10,000 residents, were blocked from increasing their property tax revenue because they had broken the law.

Legal and political challenges continue to threaten Austin’s multibillion-dollar light rail project that voters approved in 2020.

Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the cities, most of them small, of violating a state law aimed at preventing cities from unduly raising property taxes.

Six of Texas’ largest cities lost residents in 2025: Dallas, El Paso, Arlington, Plano, Irving and Garland.

While the encounter didn’t significantly hinder response to the shooting, it has raised concerns about the vehicles as they expand to more Texas cities and before new state regulations kick in.

President Trump, who wants to stop profit-driven companies from buying residences in bulk, spotlighted the struggles of a Houston woman who was regularly outbid by firms on homes in the pandemic.

High-cost housing in Texas’ third-largest city reflects challenges across the state, which has faced an affordability crisis amid extraordinary growth.

Paxton accused officials of under-calculating how much money should go to law enforcement under a voter-backed provision.

Incomes and education attainment among Texans have increased, while poverty has declined.

Texas’ population grew at a slower pace in 2025 than in previous years, according to new federal data. Nearly 32 million people now live in the state.

The push by four Dallas area suburbs to exit the multi-city partnership comes as state transportation officials have said the state needs more public transit, not less.

Conservative and liberal tax policy experts said Abbott’s proposal would lead to higher housing costs and tax benefits flowing disproportionately to wealthy homeowners.