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Adam Lamont is a pretty normal guy. He moved to Dallas in 2017 to work on U.S. Rep. Collin Allred’s Congressional campaign and rented an apartment with a roommate. When he got married in 2021 he moved into his wife DeDe’s Chimney Hill townhome near Lake Highlands. He teaches math and coaches sports at a…
Occasionally I’m asked why a real estate news site covers Dallas City Hall. Shouldn’t we stick to what CandysDirt.com has done best since 2011: celebrity real estate, luxury listings, and “house porn”? I began freelancing for CandysDirt.com in 2019, writing a weekly feature on open houses. In 2022, as the redistricting process was heating up…
A five-signature memorandum requesting the Dallas City Council discuss density options and minimum lot size is no longer a five-signature memorandum. In an email to Mayor Eric Johnson obtained by CandysDirt.com late Wednesday, District 9 Councilwoman Paula Blackmon and District 11 Councilwoman Jaynie Schultz withdrew their names from District 1 Councilman Chad West’s Nov. 8…
Just one week after Dallas plan commissioners said they didn’t want a watered-down ForwardDallas land use plan, residents showed up en masse at a public meeting to say they won’t stand for anything that threatens the integrity of their single-family neighborhoods. During almost three hours of testimony on April 18, city plan commissioners also heard…
A well-known housing advocate is taking her talents to Dallas Habitat for Humanity. Ashley Brundage takes the reins May 13 as the organization’s chief executive officer. Brundage has worked for United Way of Metropolitan Dallas for almost two decades and most recently made headlines as the founding board chair of Dallas Housing Coalition, which fought…
