Texas must build scores of homes to lower housing costs: Comptroller

AUSTIN, Texas: With the high home prices and rents in Texas becoming a growing concern for the state's top officials, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar's office said this week that if Texas wants to rein in its high housing costs, it needs more homes.

The comptroller's 26-page report stated that as the economy boomed, millions of new residents moved here over the past decade, but construction of homes in Texas did n