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The fastest-growing city in the U.S. is in Texas, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of
But as hundreds of thousands of people flocked to the Dallas-Fort Worth region in the years since, Princeton’s population more than doubled.
 
Texas lawmakers want to lower homeowners’ insurance costs, but have few options
Texas lawmakers have advanced bills to limit how much insurance companies can hike rates and help homeowners make their homes more insurable.
 
Texas would need about $81.5 billion a year to end property taxes, officials say
Republican lawmakers have been on a yearslong push to bring down the state’s property taxes, among the highest in the nation. Some Texas conservatives have long dreamt of getting rid of at least some property taxes altogether — an idea others have criticized as unrealistic given the gargantuan cost
 
Texas must build hundreds of thousands of homes to lower housing costs, says state comptroller
Homebuilding in Texas didn’t keep up as the economy boomed and millions of new residents moved here over the past decade, the comptroller’s 26-page report found. That lag in homebuilding left the state with a deep housing shortage: Texas needs 306,000 more homes than it has, according to one estimat
 
Judge receives ethics fine after endorsing a primary candidate at a Harris County press conference
Hidalgo endorsed Sean Teare, Ogg’s opponent in the Democratic primary in March, at a November press conference held at the Harris County Administration building. Hidalgo repeatedly criticized Ogg, a fellow Democrat with whom she’s often feuded.
 
As more Texans struggle with housing costs, homeownership becoming less attainable
That’s according to a new report from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, which also found that home prices and rents remain well above where they stood before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Texas housing market has cooled amid high interest rates after steep increases brought on by t