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.

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.

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

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