Removing obstacles to housing where Texans want to live.
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Thank you to @TXReasSolutions for their incredible leadership on HB 24 & all of the #txlege housing bills 👏👏
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Just ENDED the Tyrant’s Veto 🛑
THANK YOU @Burrows4TX, @GregAbbott_TX, @SenBryanHughes and @AngeliaOrrForTX 👏
With the passage of HB 24, we’ve restored fairness to local zoning decisions and protected your right to build on your own land.
Here’s what changed:
🔻 Neighbor protest threshold raised:
Before, just 20% of nearby landowners could block a rezoning for missing middle housing. Now it takes 60%—a much fairer standard.
🔻 Supermajority vote repealed:
Cities used to need a 75% supermajority to override neighbor protests. Now, a simple majority is all it takes—just like budgets, police contracts, and everything else.
Why it matters:
This outdated rule killed homes for @Habitat_org, student housing, missing middle housing. It drove up costs and let a vocal tyrannical minorities stop homes everyone else needed.
✅ More homes
✅ Stronger property rights
✅ Local democracy restored
HB 24 puts Texans—not NIMBYs—back in charge. 🏡
#txlege #HB24 #housing #PropertyRights #EndTheVeto
Thank you @GregAbbott_TX for your leadership in approving these groundbreaking housing reforms in Texas! #txlege #housing
ALT Gov. Abbott of Texas approves key housing bills in Texas - SB 840, HB 24, SB 2835, SB 2477 and SB 2477 (not listed in graphic)
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Big win for better housing outcomes and design from Texans for Housing and Texas 2036! 🎉
Senate Bill 2835, which would encourage more construction of smaller apartment and condominium communities with single staircases, just passed the Texas House, paving the way for:
✅ More cost-effective and efficient housing construction on smaller footprints
✅ Better unit layouts and designs for a wider range of family sizes and needs
✅ More natural lighting and improved ventilation
✅ Stronger safety outcomes
Single-stair buildings aren’t just beautiful, they’re more affordable to build and help create the kinds of homes Texans actually want to live in.
Congrats Texans for taking another step towards more attainable housing! 🎊
A big thank you to our champions, @NathanForTexas and @jamestalarico, in the legislature who responded to their communities and calls from housing advocates for more common-sense solutions to our state's housing shortages!
The results are in! 🎊Texas legislature passes bipartisan bill to lead statewide housing reform. SB 840 allows homes to be built on underused commercial land, especially areas near jobs and transit, in larger cities. Texas has taken the next step towards housing affordability! 🏡
Yesterday was Housing Day at #txlege! We met with legislators and advocates from all over the state, doing our part to unlock a future where every Texan has a safe, affordable home.
And we got to watch as HB 24, which eliminates the “tyrant’s veto,” passed the Texas House! 🥳
Thanks to @Texas2036 for their comments highlighting the need for statewide zoning reform through HB 24! As @egbd27 made clear - #txlege leaders know that Texans, new and old, are worried about housing affordability and this bill is a critical step forward.
"Our housing platform can be summed up by saying that #txhousing affordability is one of our state's greatest competitive advantages. Rising home prices threaten that advantage, and to improve affordability, we need to build more of everything," said @egbd27 in #txlege testimony last week.
Emily testified in support of Rep. @angelia_orr's HB 24, which reforms a 100-year-old statute that gives neighbors outsized control over nearby housing projects.
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HB 2797 ends arbitrary occupancy limits that discriminate against unrelated roommates. These rules hurt students most—forcing them into fewer, pricier options. Huge thanks to our friends at A&M for leading the charge to fix this! Gig ‘em! @cvasut
Our ED @cityjane was proud to testify on SB710 in the Senate & we look forward to talking about this opportunity to increase government efficiency with the House. #txlege
SB 710 from @SenEckhardt just passed the Senate unanimously! It lets Planning Commissions use online message boards (with safeguards) to boost transparency and communication. Now it’s headed to the House with @BucyForTexas carrying the torch. #TXLege
Thanks to @SenBryanHughes, SB 840, allowing residential development in commercial zones was just approved by the TX Senate, unlocking underutilized land across Texas for housing and economic development! #txlege
The Texas Senate just passed a bill aimed at making it easier to build homes in places that now only allow office, commercial, retail and warehouse development
The bill passed by a 24-6 vote and now heads to the House #txlege
Great news for Texans - SB 15 is an important piece of solving the housing affordability crisis across our state. Thanks to @TeamBettencourt and all the TX Senators who supported this critical legislation! #txlege
My Statement on the Bipartisan Passage of Senate Bill 15 – Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing:
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#txlege
Texans for Housing retweeted
Reduce housing prices by 20%? Increase housing supply by 40%? Crazy, huh?
Actually, no. That’s exactly what happened when Houston reduced onerous lot size requirements. Aligning policies with reality and the market works.
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Housing Happy Hour starts at 4pm! Come celebrate #Txlege Filing Deadline Day with @TexansHousing & @DavisKaufman!
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🚨Big news for future homeowners!
Senate Bill 15, a Lt. Gov. @DanPatrick priority, passed out of The Senate Local Government Committee with unanimous bipartisan support!
Why is this a big deal? Well, the average age of a homebuyer is now 54, and we absolutely cannot allow this age to go any higher! SB 15 will lower costs for those seeking to become new homeowners by increasing the supply of homes in about three dozen Texas Cities, lowering land costs, and providing incentives for builders using lots less than 4K SQFT.
It is time for the #txlege to loosen the reigns on government regulation to allow the market to create available and affordable housing! Stay tuned as I bring this bill to the Senate Floor.
The avg. age of a homebuyer is now 54 years old in the country and this is approaching a crisis point—this cannot go up to 64 years old or higher! TX families need real housing affordability now! My SB 15, SB 840 (@SenBryanHughes), and SB 854 (@mayes_middleton) cut through gov’t. red tape like a hot knife through butter!
SB 15, a priority bill of @LtGovTX will lower costs by increasing supply of homes in about 3 dozen Texas Cities by lowering land cost and providing incentives for builders using lots less than 4K SQFT. SB 840 will allow better utilization of commerical office building conversion to residential properties, and SB 854 allows faith-based organizations to bring on new improvements value on the tax rolls by building condos, etc... All these bills are designed to bring on more supply to meet the Housing Demands of today’s and future Texans!
It’s time for #txlege to pass all three of these bills, as it will take many different solutions to solve this problem, however, let's get unneeded Government Regulations out of the way!
Testimony is still going and you can watch it live here: senate.texas.gov/videoplayer…
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Texans for Housing retweeted
🛑 IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Over 100 TX Business, Org. and Thought Leaders Pen Letter to #TXLege Leadership @GregAbbott_TX, @DanPatrick & @DadePhelan: MORE HOUSING IS NEEDED 🏘️. (23&Me Founder, Whole Foods Founder, Grimes + More)
RETWEET + include "#TXLege"
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RETWEET to Solve Our Workforce Housing Shortage for Working Texans, 👨👨👧👦 while restoring Texans' Property Rights. #TXLege
Message Rep's HERE: speak4.app/lp/794cc6/
@lina4texas @BurnsForTexas @RogersForTexas @CarlOShermanTX @RepSchofield @ronereynolds @CBellJr @BradBuckleyDVM
Fantastic research from @salimfurth and Texans for Housing board member @chrisewen on the use and abuse of the minority veto.
New research from @salimfurth and Whit Ewen shows that Texas' valid petition law makes it easy for well-organized neighbors to prevent zoning changes in Austin: mercatus.org/research/policy…
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Small lots work in Texas, right @TXReasSolutions @TexansHousing?
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What's true for Montana is true for Texas. Restoring property rights is the way to get our real estate markets functioning again.
