The suit has been wending its way through the courts since 2008 when Inclusive Communities, a fair housing organization based in Dallas sued the state agency. Inclusive Communities alleged that the state had disproportionally awarded the most important federal tax credits for low income housing in areas that already had a large populations of both poor and black residents. Its method of scoring applications for those credits and thus the subsequent awards helped keep those residents from moving into mostly white areas.
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