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.
A $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will help relocate North Texas families to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates, but despite attractive signing bonuses and rent guarantees, landlord participation is lacking. Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) Chief Research & Innovation Officer Myriam Igoufe sat down with CandysDirt.com last week to…
Writing about the Dallas Planning and Development Department is tricky. We frequently hear readers say that morale is low, many good employees have departed, the leadership doesn’t listen, and no one wants to do business here. We hear from builders who actually do business in Dallas and want to give staff the benefit of the…
A group of more than 80 neighborhood leaders is calling out what they say is a violation of the city charter: appointees who serve on boards and commissions past their terms’ expiration date. City code mandates that board and commission appointees are limited to serving no more than four consecutive two-year terms. The example often…
As many Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a holiday from work or school, the country continues to fight over Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies and discriminatory practices. Personal finance website WalletHub offered a glimmer of hope for Texans with a study released last week showing the Lone Star State has made the…
It’s been almost six years since North Oak Cliff Councilman Chad West first floated the idea of eliminating minimum parking requirements for new development. Dallas’ parking requirements are governed by a city code adopted in the 1960s that staff says is outdated and dysfunctional. Business leaders and housing advocates agree and have loudly supported West’s…
