Dallas Housing Authority
Fall is here, the budget and property tax rate are finalized at Dallas City Hall, and all hell seems to be breaking loose. Might as well distract yourself with a couple of real estate stories from this past week. New Dallas Wings Practice Facility Breaks Ground A ceremony was held on Friday to commemorate the…
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…
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…
What do you do with a crime-ridden extended-stay hotel in close proximity to a major highway and a DART station that has been dubbed the “Hotel From Hell”? If Mark Melton is involved, it’s likely to be used for affordable housing. A letter of intent was signed last week by Volunteers of America to purchase…
If you’ve noticed all the housing projects in Dallas and the suburbs with no affordable units, it doesn’t take an expert to tell you why. As I write this, the dust has begun to settle on the vote by Dallas City Council to approve a Kroger mixed-use project. For those watching, the project was not an…
