Affordable Housing
Southern Dallas homeowner Darryl Baker says Dallas is concentrating a lot of tax credit rental projects in the area where he lives, and it’s a misguided approach to an affordable housing crisis that doesn’t exist — at least in that particular area. Similar to Dallas shouldering the burden of housing the homeless for the entire…
The Dallas City Council has three options for a former hospital site at 2929 South Hampton Road: provide affordable and permanent supportive housing for the homeless, subdivide the property and use it for another public purpose, or sell the land and include a deed restriction that funds from the sale could be used for another…
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…
Community development corporations like James Armstrong’s Builders of Hope want to provide affordable housing in underserved areas, but they say they can’t do it without assistance from the city such as a land transfer or forgivable loan — or both. To alleviate that pressure and help get more rooftops on the way, Dallas City Council…
We can tell you what was said during a Dallas City Council discussion last week on expanding housing development options and reducing minimum lot size requirements. We’ve pulled some great quotes from the two-hour briefing and heard what residents on both sides have to say. But you still might walk away wondering what’s really going…