Affordable Housing
The Dallas City Council approved Wednesday $41 million in tax increment financing funds for the redevelopment of the former Cabana Hotel into mixed-income housing. Developer Zach Krochtengel with Cabana Sycamore Development Inc. requested the Tax Increment Financing funds to boost a $116 million redevelopment project on 3.27 acres at 899 North Stemmons Freeway. The former…
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Formerly homeless veterans have been living in a nine-unit group home complex in North Oak Cliff for eight years, but there’s a problem: the home isn’t zoned for such a use. Dallas City Plan Commissioners on Thursday sought a compromise with the home’s operator, Phillip Mitchell, who offered to deed-restrict the property so it can’t…
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Dallas Director of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization David Noguera is off to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Miami, and city officials say he’s leaving the Lone Star State better than he found it. Noguera was among the first hires City Manager T.C. Broadnax’s staff made after the city manager’s arrival in…
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A Dallas Housing Policy presentation planned for late August was postponed, but elected officials say that’s no reflection of where their priorities lie. The presentation, originally scheduled for Aug. 22, will likely be heard at a meeting of the Housing and Homeless Solutions Committee, chaired by District 2 Councilman Jesse Moreno, in the near future,…
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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…
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