Cara Mendelsohn
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…
Members of the Dallas Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee are fired up about long-vacant properties that should have been housing the homeless and one city-owned property that was unintentionally performing that task. In a three-hour committee meeting Monday, members of the panel chaired by District 2 Councilman Jesse Moreno recommended that staff proceed with selling …
Thousands of unhoused people have turned Dallas streets into waiting rooms, and city officials said last week they’re willing to try a pilot program that employs public-private partnerships to bring housing alternatives to the homeless. Christine Crossley, director of the Dallas Office of Homeless Solutions, presented information about industrialized housing, pallet homes, and retrofitted shipping…
