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Dallas Housing Authority Seeks Landlords to Help Families Move to High-Opportunity Areas

By April Towery | January 22, 2025 |

A $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will help relocate North Texas families to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates, but despite attractive signing bonuses and rent guarantees, landlord participation is lacking. Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) Chief Research & Innovation Officer Myriam Igoufe sat down with CandysDirt.com last week to…

Aging in Place: 6 Pro Tips for a Safe and Comfortable Home

By Elaine Raffel | January 22, 2025 |

Aging in place is more than a trend. It’s the new standard. With all the right tools in hand, seniors are turning their homes into safe havens – no relocation necessary.

White Witch Shows Off Interior Design Skills in this Illinois Home

By Mimi Perez | January 22, 2025 |

Winter is just a dreadful time of year. Everything is just gray and blah. Mimi loathes wearing pants and long sleeve shirts. Mimi longs for the days when she can run free with as little clothing as possible actually touching her. Give Mimi shorts, color, and room to run.  Indeed. Look at this Chad living…

Fort Worth Is Fastest Growing City and Has Home Sales to Prove It: Report

By CandysDirt | January 22, 2025 |

From Staff Reports While home sales in many metro markets struggled to gain traction, Fort Worth bucked the trend with a modest 0.5% increase in overall sales for 2024, according to the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors. A total of 10,717 homes were sold, marking a 0.5% year-over-year rise. Active listings also surged 36%…

Allie Beth Allman’s Kerri Goldfarb Is on Our List of Ones to Watch!

By Karen Eubank | January 21, 2025 |

Kerri Goldfarb brings an amazing amount of relevant experience into her burgeoning real estate career. Her depth of knowledge and expertise in everything from neighborhoods to remodeling and finish-out is extraordinary. That’s why we think you need to keep your eye on her! Goldfarb is a native Dallasite, which is always an asset in our…

Dallas Planning and Development Department Rebounds with Improved Permit Turnaround

By April Towery | January 21, 2025 |

Writing about the Dallas Planning and Development Department is tricky. We frequently hear readers say that morale is low, many good employees have departed, the leadership doesn’t listen, and no one wants to do business here. We hear from builders who actually do business in Dallas and want to give staff the benefit of the…