Texas is among the U.S. states experiencing the biggest shortages of housing units, and the situation here is getting worse, a new study study shows. Texas needed 320,000 more homes than it had in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available, according to an analysis by Up For Growth, a national housing policy organization. Despite booming construction, that's a bigger gap than the state experienced the year before, when it was 306,000 homes short.