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H-GAC hosts events focusing on various elements of housing in the Houston-Galveston Region.
Upcoming Event
City of Clute Housing Vision Plan Open House
Date and Time
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
4 p.m.-8 p.m. (come and go participation)
Event Location
The City of Clute is growing, and with growth comes new developments. We want to hear residents’ thoughts on the future of housing in your community. Your input matters! Come share your ideas on what new homes should look like along beautiful Shanks (Clute) Lake.
Project Background
In November 2023, the City of Clute completed its Livable Centers Study, a comprehensive effort to better understand how the city can grow in a way that supports local needs and quality of life. Through data analysis, community surveys, public events, and expert input, the Study identified several key projects to help Clute thrive.
One of the major recommendations was the redevelopment of Shanks (Clute) Lake—an underutilized natural asset. The community-crafted vision for this area includes improving public access to the lake, creating family-friendly parks and gathering spaces, and providing areas for farmers markets and community events. A key part of this vision is also the inclusion of medium-density housing. By offering medium-density housing options in a walkable, connected environment, the project aims to improve housing affordability for current and future residents of Clute.
Registration is requested, but not required, to attend.
Past Workshops
Fair Housing for Local Governments Webinar - April 30, 2025
Everyone deserves access to a decent, safe place to live. During this webinar, local governments, city and county staff, and community leaders learned more about the history and importance of the federal and state fair housing acts and took away strategies for ensuring projects, policies, and ordinances in their communities meet or exceed the standards of the law. This includes not only an understanding of the fair housing act and tools for providing education to residents, developers, and homebuilders, but also case studies to review real community policies and specific planning ideas to eliminate barriers to housing.
Speakers included Shad Bogany, the 2024 National Association of Realtors Fair Housing Champion , radio host, and president of the Fort Bend Housing Corp Board; Jeffrey Riddle, fair housing trainer with the Texas Workforce Commission Civil Rights Division; and representatives from Regional Councils of Governments from across the state. This webinar was presented by the Houston-Galveston Area Council, in partnership with the Texas Association of Regional Councils.
Missing Middle Housing: A Regional Conversation - January 19, 2023
Missing Middle Housing: A Regional Conversation
Missing Middle Housing refers to house-scale buildings with multiple units that fill the housing gap between single-family homes and large apartment complexes.
At this peer exchange, participants heard innovative approaches to developing Missing Middle Housing and preserving affordable workforce housing from a panel of housing experts, followed by roundtable conversations.
Missing Middle Housing: A Regional Conversation - August 3, 2022
Missing Middle Housing: A Regional Conversation
Missing Middle Housing refers to house-scale buildings with multiple units that fill the housing gap between single-family homes and large apartment complexes.
At this peer exchange, participants heard about facts and data for our region from H-GAC staff and engaged in a facilitated discussion.
Paths to Locally Driven Affordable Rental Housing - September 17, 2021
Paths to Locally Driven Affordable Rental Housing
This summit explored opportunities related to housing with speakers from a variety of backgrounds and geographies. Panelists discussed how preserving naturally occurring affordable rental housing, working with small builders and developers, and other locally driven solutions can protect housing affordability.
Presentations
Christopher Ptomey, Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Housing
Housing for the Future: A Regional Conversation - August 17, 2018
Housing for the Future: A Regional Conversation
This summit brought together housing experts and local officials from across the region to discuss a broad vision for the region's housing and the specific strategies that can be used to increase housing availability, quality, and choice across rural, suburban, and urban communities.
Presentations
Housing for the Future: A Regional Conversation
Additional Slides - Housing Costs and Burdens
Jeff Taebel, FAICP, H-GAC
Housing Trends in North Texas
Mark Meyer, TBG Dallas
Housing Trends in Houston
Lawrence Dean, Metrostudy
Housing for the Future
B.J. Simon, Baytown-West Chambers County Economic Development Foundation