In 2002 Mike Snyder of the Houston Chronicle wrote that the HHA had "considerable autonomy" and often operated at a "distance" from the city authorities, making it "far more independent" from municipal authority than the actual City of Houston Department of Housing and Community Development.
In 1982 Mayor Kathy Whitmire appointed an African-American named Earl Phillips as the executive director.
[1] In April 2017 budget cuts in the federal government occurred, leading the HHA to terminate some of the housing choice vouchers it had already given away and stop issuing new ones;[5] this freeze was to be in effect until around the end of the year.
[71] At one time the agency had its headquarters at Allen Parkway Village, and therefore did not have to pay rent to house its administrative facilities.
As conditions at APV deteriorated, the agency moved its headquarters to 2640 Fountain View, Houston, Texas.