The Texas Senate Interim Committee on Housing and the Texas House Urban Affairs Committee will hold an unusual joint hearing on low income housing issues in El Paso on April 29. The Senate Committee, chaired by State Senator Eddie Lucio of Brownsville, and the House Committee, chaired by Representative Fred Hill of Richardson, have not previously met jointly. The committees have been charged respectively by the Lt. Governor and the Speaker of the House to monitor the operations of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs in serving the housing needs of low income Texans.
Public testimony is invited.