Affordable Housing
Last week, Seth Fowler wrote about a client of his looking for a home in the sub-$200,000 market close to his job in Bedford. “Ted” had been on a roller coaster of 43 showings and 11 contract offers … still without a home eight months on and counting. In today’s Dallas, it’s a story that’s…
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As home prices rise in Dallas-Fort Worth, those who can least afford the commensurate increases in rent and taxes have taken off for the suburbs. According to data from Harvard University’s Joint Center on Housing Studies, while poverty has grown in both urban and suburban areas in North Texas, it has increased far quicker in…
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When I was in high school, my boyfriend and I decorated the newspaper office by hand — he was editor in chief, I was executive editor. We papered the walls with his impressive collection of famous newspaper pages. The office was not huge, but we covered every wall and shellac’d over it all. This was…
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An April 2017 report for the Urban Institute tells us what we already know. We, as a nation, are losing ground in providing affordable housing to our increasingly poor citizenry. Locally, Metroplex counties are well below national averages. Again, not surprising. The report, titled Housing Affordability Gap for Extremely Low-Income Renters, defines a few terms…
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about affordable and low-income housing in Dallas, and we are happy to share that’s it’s still a possible dream to own a new home in Dallas County for under $100,000. You just have to be open to a housing resource that has been around for years, but is…
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