Bethany Erickson

Bethany Erickson lives in a 1961 Fox and Jacobs home with her husband, a second-grader, and Conrad Bain the dog. If she won the lottery, she'd by an E. Faye Jones home.
She's taken home a few awards for her writing, including a Gold award for Best Series at the 2018 National Association of Real Estate Editors journalism awards, a 2018 Hugh Aynesworth Award for Editorial Opinion from the Dallas Press Club, and a 2019 award from NAREE for a piece linking Medicaid expansion with housing insecurity.
She is a member of the Online News Association, the Education Writers Association, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Professional Journalists.
She doesn't like lima beans or the word moist.

On SecondShelters.com: Contract Out on Former Park Slope Home of Al Capone

By Bethany Erickson / October 6, 2017 /

The former childhood home of Al Capone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, now offers plenty of income potential in the form of two one-bedroom apartments and one three-bedroom home. This week’s historical shelter has been on the market for a little more than 100 days. While someone’s finally put an offer in…

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School Food Pantries Feed Students, With Community Help

By Bethany Erickson / October 5, 2017 /
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If you just walked down the halls of Woodrow Wilson High, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell that some students would need the assistance of a food pantry. But, like far too many students that attend Dallas ISD schools, the only meals some kids at Woodrow got came from the cafeteria. There simply wasn’t…

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Wednesday WTF: Want Your Own Cave? You’re in Spelunk.

By Bethany Erickson / October 4, 2017 /

Do you want to live the desert? Do you like caves? Do you ever sit in your house and think, “I like this place alright, but if I could have a massive cave, it would be so much better?” Our Wednesday WTF is for you.

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Neighborhood Spotlight: Midway Hollow Had a Very Dallas Beginning

By Bethany Erickson / October 4, 2017 /
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If a town hitting its peak is a boomtown, would a neighborhood like Midway Hollow, with its bustling mix of newcomers and longtime residents, be considered a boom-hood? There are 2,600 homes in the neighborhood, which is bordered by Midway Road, Walnut Hill Lane, Marsh Lane, and Northwest Highway. Midway Hollow’s ties to Dallas history…

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And Now, the Hard Work of Righting Dallas’ Racial Wrongs Actually Begins

By Bethany Erickson / October 1, 2017 /
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This may cost me some kind of journalistic cool kids card, but I’m not sure if I care. I mean, I’ve been known to refuse to move with the herd on other occasions as well.  I agree with Bernadette Nutall. “Until we start changing some policies that affect African-Americans and Latinos,” Nutall said at Thursday…

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