SEATTLE - Nine out of ten Texans say the state has a housing affordability crisis, according to a poll released on Aug. 8 conducted by the University of Houston and Texas Southern University. Ninety percent of the participants told pollsters that housing affordability is a problem, and more than half of them said they face some amount of financial strain resulting from high housing costs.
"To have nine out of 10 Texans agree on anything is really tough," said Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University and a senior research fellow at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston. "I think what that says is that at the very highest level, housing affordability is an issue that transcends partisan politics."
