Zarin Gracey
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 …
Just a couple of weeks after the Dallas Wings WNBA team opted to move from Arlington to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Memorial Auditorium, the City of Dallas scored another win, as a professional women’s soccer team signed on to play for two years at the Cotton Bowl. The big news came May…
We haven’t heard much about Hensley Field since the City of Dallas took legal action against the U.S. Navy In August 2023, but we were encouraged to see a photo on social media earlier this month showing members of the City’s Economic Development staff touring the site. “The best meetings take place in a Chinook,”…
Southern Dallas homeowner Darryl Baker says Dallas is concentrating a lot of tax credit rental projects in the area where he lives, and it’s a misguided approach to an affordable housing crisis that doesn’t exist — at least in that particular area. Similar to Dallas shouldering the burden of housing the homeless for the entire…
The Dallas City Council has three options for a former hospital site at 2929 South Hampton Road: provide affordable and permanent supportive housing for the homeless, subdivide the property and use it for another public purpose, or sell the land and include a deed restriction that funds from the sale could be used for another…
