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  • What to expect for Houston’s shifting housing market in 2023
    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 it all mean for Houston’s housing market in the upcoming year? Looped In co-hosts Marissa Luck and R.A. Schuetz sit down with Greg McBride, the chief financial analyst at the personal finance site Bankrate.com, to discuss. 
     
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    Houston home sales tumbled at the end of 2022. Here's what's in store for 2023.
    Home prices head higher as shortage of homes on the market persists
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    31 min
  • How a proposed Chinese investor ban could impact Houston real estate
    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 estate in Texas-- impact the Chinese population in Houston? What effects might we see on residential and commercial real estate? Looped In co-hosts Marissa Luck and R.A. Schuetz discuss the proposed law and other related legislation with investigative reporter Mike Morris.
    Proposed Texas law could drive away Chinese immigrants who thrive in southwest Houston, Katy https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/chinese-investor-ban-ding-texas-business-17744879.php
    Houston leaders, Asian groups decry Abbot plan to ban Chinese others from buying land in Texas https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/chinese-investor-ban-ding-texas-business-17744879.php
    Amid protest, senator promises change to bill banning Chinese land in Texas https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/article/texas-senator-china-land-buys-17741458.php
    Texas Take Podcast: Who are they coming for next? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-are-they-coming-for-next/id1122884023?i=1000596997544
    Forbes: Why a secretive Chinese billionaire bough 140,000 acres in Texas https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2021/08/09/why-a-secretive-chinese-billionaire-bought-140000-acres-of-land-in-texas/?sh=79a2972b78c3
    Pluribus News: Restriction on foreign ownership of farmland gets renewed push https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/states-renew-push-to-ban-foreign-ownership-of-farmland-other-property/
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    30 min
  • What it's like to learn the internet thinks you're dead: an HOA duck feud's latest twist

    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 in fact alive. How to correct a story that's gone viral, and the surprising prevalence of family estrangement. 

     

    Cypress couple was sued for up to $250K by their HOA for feeding ducks. Now they could lose their home:

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/A-Cypress-HOA-sued-a-couple-250K-for-feeding-17292935.php 

    Daily Mail UK’s version: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002295/Texas-couple-began-feeding-neighborhood-ducks-sued-250k-HOA.html 

    Washington Post’s version: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/09/hoa-ducks-foreclosure/ 

    Business Insider India’s version: https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/a-texas-couple-could-lose-their-home-after-feeding-ducks-in-their-yard-thanks-to-a-lawsuit-from-their-hoa/articleshow/92764108.cms

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    39 min
  • What it's like to learn the internet thinks you're dead? A HOA duck feud's latest twist
    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 in fact alive. How to correct a story that's gone viral, and the surprising prevalence of family estrangement. 
    Cypress couple was sued for up to $250K by their HOA for feeding ducks. Now they could lose their home:
    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/A-Cypress-HOA-sued-a-couple-250K-for-feeding-17292935.php 
    Daily Mail UK’s version: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002295/Texas-couple-began-feeding-neighborhood-ducks-sued-250k-HOA.html 
    Washington Post’s version: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/09/hoa-ducks-foreclosure/ 
    Business Insider India’s version: https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/a-texas-couple-could-lose-their-home-after-feeding-ducks-in-their-yard-thanks-to-a-lawsuit-from-their-hoa/articleshow/92764108.cms
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    41 min
  • Houston's biggest eviction prevention effort is ending. What lessons can we learn?
    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 advocacy group called Texas Housers, who compared Houston's local rental assistance programs with several others across Texas, and then they talk to Stephanie Graves, president of the Houston Apartment Association to get a landlord's perspective on how the program went.
    Houston-Harris County rental assistance program to suspend new applications indefinitely Nov. 1:https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/housing/article/Harris-County-rental-assistance-status-closing-17541457.php
    Texas Housers report comparing how Emergency Rental Assistance rolled out in Texas: https://texashousers.org/2022/12/06/emergency-rental-assistance-in-texas-report/
    Montgomery County gives up $7.1 million of its rent relief funds: “There’s just not that many people needing assistance”:https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Montgomery-County-gives-up-7-1-million-of-its-16630147.php
    County approves $4 million to help renters facing evictions access legal help: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/housing/article/County-approves-4-million-to-help-renters-facing-17470895.php
     
     
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    42 min
  • Sinking homes, toxic soil: Why the ground under your house matters
    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 sit down to discuss a few of her biggest stories impacting Houston real estate.
    Neighbors contend with rail yard after decades of contamination
    Fifth Ward residents insulted by EPA tips to avoid rail yard contamination: ‘What’s in us is in us’
    Homes in The Woodlands could sink by more than a foot over decades under new groundwater guidelines
    BRACE FOR THE STORM: The Ike Dike will transform Galveston. See how in a fly-through tour.
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    30 min
  • Buffalo Bayou East will transform East End. Why affordable housing is the first step.
    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 groundbreaking isn't for a project normally associated with parks and trails, for which the Buffalo Bayou Partnership is best known. The partnership on Saturday will begin the construction of an affordable housing development, called Lockwood on Buffalo Bayou. In this episode of Looped In, Rebecca Schuetz interviews Buffalo Bayou Partnership's president Anne Olson about the nonprofit's transformative plan and talks with Marissa Luck about the broader changes taking place in the East End.
    Read more:
    Buffalo Bayou East breaks ground with affordable housing project.
    Kinder Foundation gives $100 million to fast track Buffalo Bayou East.
    Concept Neighborhood’s 17-acre East End project could make cars obsolete with walkable, ‘micro’ living
    Midway’s non-fussy take on golf gives Houstonians first glimpse of game-changing East End project.
    Triten Partners’ trendy 6-acre mixed-use project could transform key entrance to East End
    After years of attempts, redevelopment of former St. Elizabeth’s Hospital begins
    More on Community Land Trusts in Houston
    Whether Fifth Ward residents want it or not, East River is coming
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    34 min
  • A behind-the-scenes look at East River, one of Houston's most highly anticipated projects now
    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 along Buffalo Bayou waterway. We sit down with Midway vice president Anna Deans to discuss how Midway’s game-changing project will start to transform how Houstonians interact with this part of Buffalo Bayou and how the project could spark further changes in the East End. Deans also gives us all the updates and details on what’s next for East River, one of the most highly anticipated real estate developments underway in Houston now.
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    37 min
  • What Harvey did (and didn’t) teach us about building in the floodplain
    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 the repercussions of building in the floodplain and many communities throughout Houston are still recovering from Harvey, real estate developers continue to build in floodprone areas with nearly 1 in 8 houses built in the floodplain in Houston now. Development continues to blossom in West Houston throughout the floodplain in areas like Katy Prairie, but this time with newer, better building standards than what was required 50 years ago when Meyerland was constructed. But are the new standards enough to protect homeowners? Looped In hosts R.A. Schuetz and Marissa Luck sit down with Houston Chronicle’s county reporter Jen Rice to discuss how Houston’s development standards could potentially be putting property owners in flood-prone areas at risk.
    Read more about it:
    Houston keeps paving over rain-absorbent Katy prairie, even after devastating Harvey impacts
    How Harvey transformed resilient Meyerland from modest 1950s homes to raised mini-mansions
    Post Harvey, 1 in 8 homes permitted are in floodplains
    Harvey cost many their homes and their peace of mind. 5 years later, the damage lingers.
    After 3 inches of rain shut down a Katy community, residents want to know what went wrong
     
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    41 min
  • What a controversy in Beyonce's old neighborhood tells us about historic districts
    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 historic district would actually lead to more unwanted change – gentrification – not less of it. In this episode, Rebecca and Marissa talk to reporter Nora Mishanec about the controversy sparked by the now failed Riverside Terrace historic district proposal and how it shines a light on situations when these special designations may actually become instruments of exclusion rather than inclusion.
    Read more on HoustonChronicle.com:
    18 Houston homes could become a historic district. Some residents fear they're losing control.
    Proposed Riverside Terrace historic district has longtime residents fighting for their neighborhood
    Turner pulls plan for Riverside Terrace historic district amid opposition from Third Ward residents
    A 2-year journey to remove racist deed language was finally solved thanks to new Texas law
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    33 min

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