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.
Want to make a difference in how Dallas’ housing policy is implemented? The city is now accepting applications for residents to join a selection committee for its inclusive Housing Task Force. The Housing Task Force will be representative of the population of Dallas and members will have a range of backgrounds and technical skills that…
The Dallas City Council unanimously approved a “hybrid trench option” for Interstate 345 last year, with the condition that city staff explore grant funding to pay for it and design alternatives to make sure the trench was the best option. However, the council was told Wednesday that the project will cost about $600 million more…
Dallas evictions are at an all-time high, and to add insult to injury, the City of Dallas says landlords are now retaliating against renters who report code violations. Nearly 40,000 eviction cases were filed in Dallas County Justice of the Peace courts last year, meaning about 10 percent of renters were removed from their homes.…
A North Oak Cliff neighborhood once featured in the Tom Cruise movie Born on the Fourth of July scored a big win last week toward preserving its small-town charm. The Dallas City Council unanimously approved a rezoning that will carve out an area of Elmwood as a walkable urban mixed-use district. District boundaries extend along…
Hundreds of new affordable housing units could be offered in Dallas and Fort Worth over the next five years under the Community Land Trust model, a group of expert panelists said Thursday. The Dallas-Fort Worth Housing Consortium held its quarterly meeting Feb. 29 at Trinity Habitat for Humanity to discuss CLTs and how they’re building momentum…
