https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2025/08/05/new-report-shows-housing-reform-is-gaining-momentum-nationwide/ β€œTexas in particular was a leader in 2025, passing several laws that will lower the cost of housing, including reducing minimum lot sizes; making it easier to convert office buildings to residential units; and allowing developers to construct multifamily buildings with a single staircase to reduces construction costs.” #housing #USPolitics #TXLeg #zoning #shortage #BuildingCode
New Report Shows Housing Reform Is Gaining Momentum Nationwide

The last year was a big one for housing reform. More than 30 states passed at least one pro-housing bill between July 2024 and June 2025.

Forbes
This is what happens when you try to silence Black voices in Texas. Jasmine Crockett just brought the receipts and the πŸ”₯ #txleg #gerrymandering #redistricting #maps

Unilateral disarmament in the redistricting wars is no virtue. Keeping your gerrymandering powder dry to force concessions from other states is no vice. #uspol #capol #txpol #caleg #txleg #redistricting

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California and Other Blue States Can Re-Arm Themselves Through Multilateral Redistricting

From Hunter @StatisticUrban: β€œIt’s fully possible to draw a VRA-compliant 52D-0R California gerrymander where the worst seat is still D+10.” In 2008, California voters established…

Harry's Blog
β€œThis bill allows the option of building homes at different types and price points to meet the demand and needs of buyers...Lowering the size and type of residential housing will increase the amount of housing that can be built and lowers housing costs.” https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/27/texas-house-tiny-homes/ #Texas #TXLeg #zoning #housing
Texas bill allowing smaller homes on smaller lots amid housing affordability crunch advances in House

Senate Bill 15, a top priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, is part of a broad push by lawmakers to put a dent in the state’s high home prices.

The Texas Tribune

As the Texas Civil Rights Project gears up for the 89th Texas legislative session, they're hosting a training to equip you with the tools and knowledge to engage effectively.

πŸ’‘ Learn about key priorities from our Beyond Borders, Criminal Legal, and Voting Rights teams, and discover how you can take action to support justice and equity in Texas.
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TX Lege 101

EveryAction
πŸ‘ Texas Senator Mayes Middleton files SB 692 to eliminate Daylight Saving Time by end of 2025! Tell #TXLeg YES on SB 692!
β€œThe US tried permanent Daylight Saving Time in 1974. 79% of the population was in favor at the beginning. But after one dreadful winter, support dropped to 42%.” #DitchDST #SaveStandardTime #TXLeg https://www.whitesboronewsrecord.com/article/342,stop-the-time-change
Stop the time change

Twice each year, we spring forward and fall back, changing our clocks in an endless cycle of insanity. Everyone pretty...

Whitesboro News-Record
β€œMake Standard Time permanent again. It is better for health and safety. It is the most biologically normal time.” #DitchDST #SaveStandardTime #TXLeg
Texas: New: SB 516 seeks illegal, unsafe, permanent Daylight Saving Time. Filed by Senator Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston), who previously sponsored bills seeking pDST and bills seeking legal, safe, permanent Standard Time. Permanent DST would put TX sunrise past 8am 3–5 months, later even then 9am! When last tried, it cost lives and business, and Texans rejected it. Please urge him and your own state legislators to #DitchTheSwitch the quick, safe, and lasting way, with permanent Standard Time, not permanent DST! #DitchDST #TXLeg #MAHA
Read the rest of the above article, and watch its two video interviews, on KLTV7’s website here: https://www.kltv.com/2024/11/10/rep-cole-hefner-discusses-daylight-saving-time-upcoming-legislative-session/ #TXLeg #DaylightSavingTime #StandardTime
East Texas lawmaker, professor detail history and future of daylight saving time

State Representative Cole Hefner (R-Mount Pleasant) discusses whether he feels daylight saving time should be made permanent in Texas.

KLTV