Affordable Housing Dallas

Dallas City Council Approves Cypress Creek at Forest Lane Mixed-Income Housing in District 10

By April Towery / June 14, 2023 /

It’s official: An affordable housing project is coming to North Central Expressway in District 10. The project took on a life of its own as developers with Sycamore Strategies fought through prohibitive deed restrictions, one of the most contentious town hall meetings in recent memory, a failed attempt to use Public Facility Corporation financing, and…

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Dallas City Council Transportation Committee Backs TxDOT’s Interstate 345 ‘Hybrid Option’ in 5-2 Vote

By April Towery / May 16, 2023 /

City leaders, Texas Department of Transportation officials, and Dallas residents continued talks this week on the future of Interstate 345. What to do with the elevated freeway that cuts through Deep Ellum and downtown Dallas has been hailed as one of the most important transportation decisions in Dallas’ recent history. However, some Dallas City Council…

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Almas Muscatwalla Appointed to DHA Board of Commissioners

By April Towery / February 24, 2023 /

There’s a new DHA (formerly the Dallas Housing Authority) commissioner on board, and she’s taking her appointment very seriously.  Community leader Almas Muscatwalla co-founded Faith Forward Dallas in 2015 to unite North Texans in social justice issues, including migrant and refugee matters, homelessness, gun violence, and racial equity. She recently retired as executive director. When…

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Plan Commission Fails Math Quiz On Mill Creek Project

By Jon Anderson / November 23, 2020 /

Last Thursday, Mill Creek’s West Dallas Modera Trinity project presented to, and unanimously passed, Plan Commission (catch-up here, here). Did any of the commissioners do the math? The base zoning approved was a building height of 95 feet (85 feet of building and 10 feet for mechanicals – sea of roof air conditioners, elevator housings,…

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RIBA Stirling Prize Claimed By Public Housing Project Shows What Can Be Done

By Jon Anderson / October 25, 2019 /

The Royal Institute of British Architects awards the Stirling Prize to the best building of any type built in the UK during that year. First awarded in 1996, the Stirling Prize has been awarded to everything from the media gallery of the Lord’s cricket pitch in 1999 to the rebirth of a 12th century fortified…

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