Affordable Housing
Just days after the Child Poverty Action Lab released a report revealing a massive shortage in affordable apartments, 279 housing units were approved under the city’s Public Facility Corporation financing structure. Savoy Equity Partners will develop the mixed-income multifamily Bishop Ridge development at 624 and 627 North Lancaster Ave., 405 North Ewing Ave., and 303…
Dallas set its sights on transforming a former U.S. Naval Air Station into a mixed-use residential community, but city leaders say they can’t move forward until the Navy cleans up the site. More than 6,500 homes are planned for the 700-acre Hensley Field, a master-planned initiative that former District 3 Councilman Casey Thomas called his…
Housing doesn’t typically get a massive piece of the pie in a municipal budget because a lot of dollars come from federal funds, grant programs, tax-increment financing districts, and other mechanisms already in place. Dallas, however, has made affordable housing a priority, and CandysDirt.com is taking a closer look to see if they’re putting their…
The Austin City Council voted last month to reduce the minimum lot size from about 5,700 square feet to 2,500 square feet, a decision hailed as a victory by “Yes In My Backyard” housing advocates. The measure essentially means more houses can be built in a higher-density fashion, theoretically closing the gap on the lack…
James Armstrong’s first experience with affordable housing occurred when he was about 5 years old, sleeping on a twin mattress with his mother and sister in the projects of West Dallas. HIs mother, who at the time worked as a janitor at Head Start of Greater Dallas, had to briefly live in a homeless shelter…
