Zarin Gracey
Very little progress has been made since former District 3 Dallas City Councilman Casey Thomas declared from the horseshoe in December 2022 that a plan for 6,800 new homes in a $390 million master-planned community at Hensley Field would be his “legacy project.” Those homes have not been built, and the project was inherited by…
A couple of years ago, the Dallas City Council bought a former Oak Cliff hospital for $6.5 million to be repurposed as permanent supportive housing for the homeless. Southwest Dallas residents left no room for confusion when they told their District 3 council member Zarin Gracey, and Casey Thomas before him, that they don’t want…
Dallas voters made their stance clear at the polls Tuesday, rejecting proposed salary increases for City Council members while approving two of three controversial charter amendments driven by petition — each of which local elected officials had vocally opposed. But questions remain how and when the amendments will be implemented. About 57% of Dallas County’s…
Editor’s Note: This story was updated Aug. 29 to include a statement from Child Poverty Action Lab Chief of Housing Ashley Flores. If District 1 Dallas City Councilman Chad West was hoping for full support of Public Facility Corporation projects as a mechanism for providing much-needed multifamily workforce housing, he is probably disappointed. Several months…
District 3 Dallas City Councilman Zarin Gracey couldn’t hide his frustration in a late June Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee meeting. He’s heard from his constituents that they don’t like any of the city’s ideas to repurpose an old hospital on Hampton Road. He wants to sell that site and use the funds to address…
