Housing Policy

Industry Professionals Wait On Trump To Flesh Out His Housing Policy

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / November 17, 2024 /

By Charles GrandCandysDirt.com Contributor President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to alleviate the nation’s housing shortage could yield mixed results for builders and prospective homebuyers. The anticipated combination of deregulation and tax relief will more than likely stimulate activity in the sector, but many Americans may still find themselves priced out of the market. A recent Zillow…

Low Opportunity Areas Often Decades in the Making, But Solutions Are There

By Bethany Erickson / October 7, 2018 /

Thanks to a new interactive tool, we now know what opportunity looks like in all areas of Dallas. And that tool confirms what many who follow income disparity have known all along — it frequently is manifest most in geography, where decades of policy have wrought pockets of opportunity gaps throughout the city. The Opportunity…

Dallas’ Chief of Economic Development Raquel Favela Resigns

By Bethany Erickson / August 22, 2018 /

Raquel Favela, Dallas’ Chief of Economic Development and Neighborhood Services, has given City Manager T.C. Broadnax her resignation, the city announced yesterday. Her resignation is effective Sept. 3. Under her tenure, which began April 2017, Favela oversaw the city’s first data-driven Market Value Analysis framework, which helped city leaders, residents and others better suss out…