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April 22, 2024
This report examines the laws underlying the City’s historic landmark property tax exemption program and how the program could be improved to advance the City’s equity goals. The City of Austin’s property tax exemption program for historic properties has been criticized for being unfair and inequitable, by primarily benefitting affluent property owners and neighborhoods in […] -
March 7, 2024
Mama Kitchen Press is a start-up publishing company that provides traditional publishing services to authors whose work is centered on personal stories. ECDC students assisted MKP with contracts, intellectual property, and choice of entity. -
March 7, 2024
Ready Up Aquatics is a woman-owned business that provides complete pool management services and swim lesson in Central Texas. ECDC students assisted Ready Up Aquatics with entity formation, customer contracts, and personnel policies. -
January 18, 2023
This report summarizes the findings of a study examining issues that low- and middle-income households face when purchasing affordable, below-market-rate units in market-rate developments including, in particular, the City of Austin’s developer incentive programs such as Planned Use Developments. -
November 18, 2021
Ousted: The City of San Antonio’s Displacement of Residents through Code Enforcement Actions
This report examines the City of San Antonio’s displacement of residents from their homes for code violations, with a focus on single-family residences. From 2015-2020, the City issued close to 1,000 orders to vacate and orders to demolish single-family homes, including at least 626 orders for occupied homes. Residents who are displaced from their homes […] -
September 7, 2021
Protecting African American Historic Places in Texas: A Community Legal Toolkit
This guide provides community groups and individuals interested in the preservation of sites in Texas with ties to African American heritage with an overview of the legal tools available to help achieve their goals. The focus of this toolkit is on the most common legal tools available to help preserve African American historic sites, rather than the […] -
July 22, 2021
CLTs & SB 1943 for Heir Property: Community Preservation Tools
Materials from a webinar presented to community leaders in Dallas at the invitation of the Muse Family Foundation provides a brief overview of two community preservation tools: the Community Land Trust and the heir property update to the Homestead Exemption. -
January 21, 2020
Endangered: San Antonio’s Vanishing Mobile Home Parks and a Path for Preservation
Mobile home parks are vanishing in San Antonio at an alarming rate, with the closure of at least nine mobile home parks since 2014. Without intervention by the city, dozens more mobile home parks are at risk of closing, impacting the housing security of thousands of the city’s most vulnerable residents. This report focuses on […] -
September 16, 2019
