Affordable Housing
Four housing developments were approved this week under the Public Facility Corporation financing structure, lauded by Dallas City Council members as a mechanism for providing affordable homes for the city’s workforce. “Is there any other way we’re getting affordable housing? Are developers building it for free?” District 1 Councilman Chad West asked. Assistant Director of…
It seems most everyone supports the idea of affordable housing, and more housing in general — although there’s always going to be an argument about where it should go and what it should look like. But are public facility corporations the answer to Dallas’ affordable housing crisis? Dallas has embarked on the relatively new public…
A housing crisis has been declared, and many piecemeal efforts are in place to solve it, but one big call to action looms before Dallas: What is missing middle housing and how do you fix it? Missing middle housing is defined as a range of multi-family or clustered housing types compatible with single-family neighborhoods. It’s…
Just 2,370 new housing units were added to the Dallas tax rolls in 2021, a city council member mentioned in a phone interview with CandysDirt.com last week. Maybe that’s a pandemic problem. Maybe it’s the result of inflation or high construction costs. Maybe it can be attributed to the City of Dallas permitting debacle. The…
The Dallas City Council has been meeting weekly to trudge through the city’s budget process, and while housing issues don’t always garner the headlines, it’s clear that elected officials are putting time and money into the matter. At least four funding allocations and program changes have been approved over the past month. The city council…
