Cara Mendelsohn
The Dallas City Council recently denied three zoning requests for duplexes in the Mount Auburn neighborhood, prompting a larger discussion on the need for self-determination in areas that have been threatened by what residents perceive as incompatible high-density development. Residents at the Jan. 8 council meeting who spoke out against duplexes in their neighborhood considered…
As 2024 comes to a close and we look back on the hundreds of stories about new real estate projects, City Hall shenanigans, and developers with innovative solutions to the affordable housing crisis, a few names stick out. Some were heavily criticized; some were hailed as heroes. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, here are your…
A couple of years ago, the Dallas City Council bought a former Oak Cliff hospital for $6.5 million to be repurposed as permanent supportive housing for the homeless. Southwest Dallas residents left no room for confusion when they told their District 3 council member Zarin Gracey, and Casey Thomas before him, that they don’t want…
All Cara Mendelsohn wants for the holidays is to preserve Adventure Landing in her Far North Dallas district. The Dallas City Council member got her wish at a Dec. 11 meeting when her colleagues voted unanimously to spend $13.65 million to acquire the site near Coit Road and the George Bush Turnpike in Collin County. Mendelsohn…
We already know that Dallas needs more housing to shelter residents of varying incomes and that the City of Dallas and partners in the private industry are making huge strides to address the affordability crisis. But what we haven’t seen — until last week — was a strategic document outlining methods by which Dallas Housing…
