Affordable Housing
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…
Editor’s Note: This story was updated Aug. 29 to include a statement from Child Poverty Action Lab Chief of Housing Ashley Flores. If District 1 Dallas City Councilman Chad West was hoping for full support of Public Facility Corporation projects as a mechanism for providing much-needed multifamily workforce housing, he is probably disappointed. Several months…
Staff Reports A Montfort Drive multifamily project north of the Dallas Galleria that will offer mixed-income housing and shelter for the formerly homeless will open in early 2026, officials announced recently. Sycamore Strategies’ Zach Krochtengel, Hunt Capital Partners, and Bonner Carrington were awarded $20 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credit financing for the 168-unit…
