About me
Fred Fuchs is the housing group coordinator for Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, where he oversees the program's housing work. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law where he teaches a housing clinic each spring. He received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. He has litigated numerous cases on tenant rights in federal housing programs in state and federal courts.
He is a contributing author to the Texas Poverty Law Handbook, contributing outlines on defending evictions in Texas, defending federally subsidized evictions, defending Section 8 Housing Voucher evictions, and representing tenants in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program. He has written a number of other articles on rights of tenants in federal housing programs and has spoken for many years on housing-related legal topics at the annual State Bar of Texas Poverty Law Conference. He has also served as a trainer for a number of years at the National Housing Law Project Housing Justice Network federal housing training for new housing lawyers.