Cara Mendelsohn
Renovations are substantially complete at Lake Highlands’ Vantage Point housing development for the formerly homeless and about one-third of the units are leased. Dallas City Council members questioned the occupancy rate last week, pointing out that there are still a lot of unhoused residents sleeping on public roadways. Vantage Point, a former extended-stay motel —…
Editor’s Note: This story was updated Aug. 29 to include a statement from Child Poverty Action Lab Chief of Housing Ashley Flores. If District 1 Dallas City Councilman Chad West was hoping for full support of Public Facility Corporation projects as a mechanism for providing much-needed multifamily workforce housing, he is probably disappointed. Several months…
Editor’s Note: Several days after this story was published, The Dallas Morning News reported that “a supporter of proposed city charter changes pushed by nonprofit Dallas Hero is suing the city and most of the City Council, alleging they violated the Constitution by adding overriding amendment proposals.” Twenty-one proposed changes to the Dallas city charter…
Dallas department directors have been unveiling their draft budget proposals at City Council committee meetings over the past month, and Housing took its turn at the horseshoe in late June. Interim Assistant Housing Director John Smalls said the department is reducing its budget by 38 percent “due to a combination of reductions in each service…
Over the objection of District 12 Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn, the Dallas City Council recently approved a $1.85 million economic development grant to assist with the “extraordinary cost” of required off-site wastewater infrastructure improvements at a mixed-use development in The Cedars. Councilman Jesse Moreno, who represents the area, said housing is needed in the rapidly growing…
