Affordable Housing
It’s been a long time coming but Builders of Hope Community Development Corp. is rolling out its much-anticipated Anti-Displacement Toolkit before the Dallas City Council next month. A series of workshops kicked off in mid-September, offering a chance for residents who are directly affected by gentrification and displacement in their neighborhoods to gain an understanding…
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…
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 —…
More than 200 apartments just became available to North Oak Cliff renters, and they’re in the sweet spot of affordability. Dallas County and Catholic Housing Initiative opened the 230-unit mixed-income Gateway Oak Cliff development in July. The $45 million project was funded in part by Oak Cliff Gateway Tax Increment Financing dollars. The apartment complex…
How does the Mark Twain quote go? “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The City of Dallas loves a good survey and sky-is-falling data, but when the numbers don’t support the narrative of a particular individual or advocacy group, they’re quickly dismissed. And to be fair, there’s also probably another survey…
