April Towery
April Towery is former News Development Director for CandysDirt.com and covers Dallas City Hall. She studied journalism at Texas A&M University and has been an award-winning reporter and editor for more than 25 years.
Dallas is facing a shortage of about 33,660 affordable homes, according to a study published recently by the Child Poverty Action Lab. Ashley Flores, senior director of the nonprofit CPAL, reviewed the findings Thursday night in a conference call with members of the activist group Dallas Neighbors for Housing. Flores worked for about six months…
Duncanville residents made it clear this week that they want blue herons rather than Pappadeaux, a trail system rather than an apartment complex, and a circle of tree stumps to gather for the study of plant species rather than a college campus. The Duncanville City Council rezoned 42 acres and updated its comprehensive land use…
James Armstrong’s first experience with affordable housing occurred when he was about 5 years old, sleeping on a twin mattress with his mother and sister in the projects of West Dallas. HIs mother, who at the time worked as a janitor at Head Start of Greater Dallas, had to briefly live in a homeless shelter…
When Bret Taylor set out to sell the home of his late mother and stepfather, it should have been a fairly simple process. The three-bedroom home on Chinaberry Trail in Plano was listed for about $399,000, but the sale fell through when a title company representative identified two liens on the property. Taylor reached out to…
It could take a literal act of Congress to change the noise levels in the neighborhoods surrounding the city-owned Dallas Love Field Airport, and a small group of residents say they’re willing to take that on. One thing was clear at a meeting of the Dallas Love Field Environmental Advisory Committee last week: The residents…
