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2023 POLICY BRIEFS

 

November

11/28/2023 - Medical Debt is a Significant Source of Housing Instability

11/23/2023 - Environmental Injustice is Harming Houston’s East End

11/14/2023 - Fourth Special Session Begins With A Focus on School Vouchers 

11/07/2023 - Behind Bars & Beyond Safety: Addressing the Increase of Deaths in Harris County Jails

 

October

10/31/2023 - Weighing the Options: Ballot Propositions Offer Critical Decision-Making Opportunities this November 

10/17/2023 - Where Have All the Books Gone? When Some Libraries Become Team Centers

10/10/2023 - Silent Suffering: Unveiling the Epidemic of Domestic Violence in Houston

10/03/2023 - Proposition B Puts the Houston-Galveston Area Council on the Ballot

 

September

09/26/2023 - Voting is Good for Your Health

09/19/2023 - HISD Takeover: Teacher Bait & Switch?

09/12/2023 - The True Cost of Drunk Driving in Harris County

 

August 

08/29/2023 - Rising Flood Insurance Premiums Strain Housing Budgets 

08/22/2023 - Poverty is Now the 4th Leading Cause of Death in the United States

08/17/2023 - HISD Takeover: Noew School Year, New System 

08/08/2023 - Overcrowded & Overheated: American Prisons Face Another Wave 

 

July 

07/25/2023- Property Tax Reform Bills Signed by the Governor 

07/18/2023 - New Survey Shows Challenges Many Patients Face Using Their Health Insurance 

07/12/2023 - President Biden's Student Debt Relief Plan Faces Defeat

07/05/2023 - Vehicle Break-ins and the Rise of Gun Violence in Houston

 

June 

06/27/2023 - One Year after the Dobbs Decision

06/20/2023 - Affordable Housing: Addressing the Crisis

06/13/2023 - The TEA Takeover of HISD has Begun

06/07/2023 - Houston Extends Holistic Assistance Response Teams Program

 

May 

05/31/2023 - Legislature Extends Postpartum Medicaid Coverage for Texas Moms

05/22/2023 - The Legislature is Still Working on Addressing Housing

05/16/2023 - Lawmakers Look to Address School Safety and Student Mental Health 

05/09/2023 - Lege Considering Bills That Would Make it Easier to Send Youth Offenders to Adult Prisons

05/02/2023 - Expanding Doula Care Can Help Improve Maternal Outcomes

 

April 

04/25/2023 - Housing Affordability is a Key Issue for Most Texans 

04/18/2023 - Texas Bills Bring Spotlight to the Library

04/11/2023 - Bail Reform is Back on the Legislative Agenda 

04/04/2023 - The Legislature is Advancing Bills to Limit Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Young People 

 

March 

03/28/2023 - Prioritizing Property Tax Reform Helps Some, But Not All Texans

03/21/2023 - School Vouchers Find New Life in the 88th Legislature 

03/13/2023 - Legislature Has Another Chance to Give Youth Offenders a ‘Second Look’

03/07/2023 - TEA Takeover of HISD Could Come This Week

 

February 

02/28/2023 - Now is the Time for Medicaid Expansion

02/21/2023 - The 88th Legislative Session Has Begun

 

January

01/31/2023 - Texas Teens Fight To Shutdown Youth Prisions

01/24/2023 - 147 Pregnant Women In Texas Died, Disproportionately Black Moms

01/17/2023 - Principal Dr. Stredit-Thomas Shares Enrichment Programs At Blackshear ES

01/10/2023 - Legal aid in eviction cases a win for tenants & county

2022 POLICY BRIEFS

  

 

December

12/20/2022 - Best of 2022 - CCPPI Policy Briefs

12/13/2022 - Texas is Underinvesting in Early Childhood Resources

12/06/2022 - New Tenant Protections in Texas

 

November 

11/30/2022 - We Engaged with Nearly 3,500 Voters!

11/21/2022 - Center Indigenous Peoples This Thanksgiving

11/15/2022 - Community Violence Interventions across US & Harris County

11/08/2022 - TODAY is Election Day! Go Vote!

11/01/2022 - “Nowhere to Go” - Texas, A Maternity Care Desert

 

October

10/25/2022 - At-risk students made up 65.2% of HISD’s 2018 - 2019 student population

10/18/2022 - All Tenants Deserve the Right to Legal Representation: Harris County Needs Right to Counsel

10/11/2022 - Harris County School Districts Under Report School Bus Accidents Over Last 5 Years

10/04/2022 -Texas Abortion Funds Fight to Unpause Services

 

September

09/27/2022 - Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline: A Conversation with HISD School Board Trustees

09/20/2022 -“If you don’t get to the courthouse, you lose your rights.”

09/13/2022 - 5 Years Later… Houstonians Still Dealing with the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

09/07/2022 - Demand Health Justice! #MedEx4TX #South4MedEx

 

August

08/30/2022 - Speak Up for an Honest Education! #TeachTheTruth

08/23/2022 -The Rent Eats First

08/16/2022 - Close Texas’ 5 Juvenile Prisons, Kids Don't Belong in Prison

08/09/2022 - Americans in the Coverage Gap Left Behind

08/02/2022 - Harmful Censorship Bills - TX House Public Education Committee Hearings

 

July

07/26/2022 - Support Rental Assistance - Support the Stable Families Act

07/19/2022 - Environmental Racism Rampant in Houston

07/12/2022 - An America Without Abortion Access

07/06/2022 - Texas' Broken Child Care System

 

June

06/28/2022 - Housing Not Highways

06/21/2022 - Kids Deserve to Walk to School Safely

06/14/2022 - Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis

06/07/2022 - "Hardening" Schools Does Not Prevent School Shootings

06/01/2022 - Racism in the Homebuying Process - a new brief by CCPPI & IUPRA

 

May

05/24/2022 - How Pretrial Reform Shaped Harris County’s System & Improved Lives

05/17/2022 - Texas Moms Need Postpartum Health Coverage

05/10/2022 - New Houston ISD Initiative...Potential to Create Equitable Change

05/03/2022 - Low-Income Renters Need Urgent Help

 

April

04/26/2022 - A Conversation about Juvenile Justice with the Earl Carl Institute 

04/20/2022 - Getting There - Texans Travel Out-of-State for Abortion Care Following SB 8

04/12/2022 - ALL Texas School Districts Lack Mental Health Providers

04/05/2022 - We Need Rental Assistance, Not Just Emergency Rental Assistance

 

March

03/29/2022 - Texas Prison Conditions Violate International Human Rights

03/22/2022 - The Gender Wage Gap Impacts Women's Health

03/15/2022 - Teacher Shortages Unsurprising in Texas Public School System

03/08/2022 - Housing First: Ending Homelessness & Benefitting the Economy

03/01/2022 - Keep Bail Reform in Harris County

 

February

02/22/2022 - Eviction & Healthcare Utilization

02/15/2022 - Attacks on Books, Learning About Race & Gender in Texas Public Schools

02/08/2022 - Evictions Keep Voters from the Ballot Box

02/01/2022 - Black History Month 2022 - Black Health & Wellness

 

January

01/25/2022 - Safe, Accessible Streets & Sidewalks … in Houston!

01/19/2022 - Black Americans in the South Face Most Medical Debt

01/11/2022 - #CancelStudentDebt

01/05/2022 - “Build Back Better Act - Historic Affordable Housing Investment at Risk! 

 

 

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