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Pending some discussion with Dallas City Council members and stakeholders, local officials are poised to lobby the U.S. Congress to add blight remediation to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, improve the Point-in-Time homeless count procedures, and add funding to federal grant programs. Director of Government Affairs Carrie Rogers was prepared to discuss the…
Fifty percent of the Dallas Department of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization’s annual funding will go toward “equity strategy target areas,” City Council members agreed Wednesday. Upgrades to the city’s development program have been strategized and briefed at the committee level since November, and Housing Director Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson’s proposal received unanimous support. The three equity target…
A new draft of the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan was released late Wednesday and officials will have less than two weeks to review it before a deep dive into language revisions and a public hearing on June 17. City planners assured commissioners Thursday morning that their feedback from a spirited discussion last month —…
A task force has been studying the South Dallas Fair Park Area Plan for almost four years, and the document appears to be headed toward an implementation phase that will include more housing with intentional, neighborhood-approved design standards. Members of the Dallas City Council’s Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture Committee discussed the matter during…
The climate at Dallas City Hall has been cloudy with a lot of employee departures, and administrators sent a strong message that they like the current direction of the Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization Department. After conducting a national search, an internal candidate with almost 18 years at the City of Dallas was selected as the…
