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.
When the Dallas City Council voted last month to auction a city-owned property that’s been overrun by vandals and squatters, Councilman Jesse Moreno said he was disappointed that immediate demolition wasn’t authorized. It appears that at the time, neither Moreno nor his colleagues knew the building was on the National Register of Historic Places. In…
Housing advocates have for years been trying to think of innovative solutions to create affordable shelter for persons of all socioeconomic backgrounds and in communities that don’t have a lot of vacant land. The latest suggestion: Yes, in God’s Backyard. The “YIGBY” movement is a spinoff of “Yes in My Backyard.” Members of the nationwide…
Seven long days have passed without in-depth reporting on the much-debated ForwardDallas 2.0 land use plan, but don’t worry. We’ll say it again for those in the back — Dallas City Councilman Paul Ridley helped reach some important compromises with single-family home advocates last week, and now it’s headed to Council. CandysDirt.com was the first…
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity is bouncing back from a rough 2023, announcing last week the award of a $750,000 grant that will fund the construction of six homes over the next three years. The news comes just a couple of months after a Dallas Morning News investigation revealed that the local Habitat affiliate —…
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is Dallas isn’t mentioned in the latest Special Housing Risk Report from ATTOM Data Solutions. The bad news is there’s still a nationwide housing crisis. In a report released Thursday, ATTOM found that California, New Jersey, and Illinois once again had the highest concentrations of the…
