Dallas Housing Authority

No, Seriously, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance Wants To End Chronic Homelessness By 2015

President and CEO of Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance Mike Faenza said as much yesterday: He knows he's "at risk of looking like Don Quixote" here, but he really, really believes Dallas can end its chronic homelessness problem by 2015. Which is why earlier today he did his best to convince the city co ... More >>

A Video That Actually Sells Dallas, In This Case to Foreign Investors. Y'all Come Now, Y'Hear?

​In recent days we've seen a video in which the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau sells the city to conventioneers and tourists, and a short film in which the Dallas Citizens Council sells the city to ... um, the citizens council? But after the jump, here's a real, honest-to-God pitch -- a fre ... More >>

Price vs. Culbreath: Oh, You Know This'll Be Good

Santa brings political theater fans an early Christmas present.

"We Must Correct This Nightmare": Betty Culbreath to Take on Her Former Boss, JWP

​One month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board member, former Dallas Housing Authority chair, '07 Dallas City Council candidate, one-time chair of the City Plan Commission and longtime Friend of Unfair Park Betty Culbreath wrote on her blog that it's time for John Wiley Price to go. ... More >>

The Good and Bad News Contained Within MDHA's "2011 State of Homelessness" Report

Metro Dallas Homeless AllianceA look at Dallas County's homeless population from the "2011 Annual 'Point-In-Time' Homeless Count and Census"​Leslie's at Dallas City Hall at this very moment, where Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance is announcing the formation of the Greater Dallas Homeless Policy Alli ... More >>

For Sale: A 1937 Look at PWA "Low-Rent Housing Project" Off Maple That Still Stands

eBay seller "vintageimagephotos"​It's been a long while since we've looked at a historic photo of the city for sale on eBay, and since there are just two days left in the auction, we'd best hustle. Besides, this is an intriguing offering: a beautiful, expansive aerial look-see at Cedar Springs Pla ... More >>

Surprise! City's Plans for Low-Income Housing Overlooks North Dallas. Again.

​Tuesday the city council's housing committee will hear about 13 low-income housing projects being considered by city and state officials. As usual, the dot pattern of the proposed developments looks like a case of municipal diaper rash, heavily concentrated in the city's southern regions. S ... More >>

Dave Neumann, You Have a Challenger!

Sara KerensScott and wife Mariana Griggs, standing in their so-called "West Dallas Country Club" community garden​Council elections are in May, and this morning we learn that District 3 rep Dave Neumann will square off against a political newcomer (of sorts): Scott Griggs, with whom you're probabl ... More >>

City Council Members Tour the Bridge for Latest Update on Housing Dallas's Homeless

Photos by Patrick MichelsCity Council members Jerry Allen, David Neumann, Carolyn Davis and Pauline Medrano look on as Jay Dunn shows off facilities at The Bridge.The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance's Mike Faenza and John Castle have been pretty regular faces at City Hall over the past few months, bu ... More >>

The Horror, The Horror Behind the Latest Trinity River Piece in Dallas's Only Daily

​Trinity River Project stories are The Dallas Morning News on mescaline. The city's only daily does so well with other coverage. But then they drop one of those Trinity River tabs, and the walls go to rubber. This morning The Dallas Morning News publishes a story saying the federal share of the Tr ... More >>

Willis Johnson's Latest Piece of the Action

Sam MertenWe're trying to imagine how the conversation between Willis Johnson (right) and Ryan Evans (left) went as Johnson, one of the mayor's close advisers, lobbied Evans on behalf of his wife's company. ​Thanks to Mayor Tom Leppert's push for a lobbyist registration ordinance, we're now pr ... More >>

Dallas Housing Authority's Watersports Complex Kibosh Runs Off September Event

From the Dallas Watersports Complex's Web site, which, clearly, was clairvoyant​Perhaps you've heard: The Dallas Watersports Complex -- which was scheduled to open on Fish Trap Lake in West Dallas by no later than September -- has been drowned by MaryAnn Russ, head of the Dallas Housing Authority. ... More >>

Mattie Nash, Former City Council Member and Housing Activist, Died Sunday at 87

Mattie Nash, when she served on the Dallas City Council in the early 1990s​Not long ago, I was re-reading Michael Phillips's White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas 1841-2001 and came upon the section dealing with the demolition of 1,000 homes in the early '90s. Most, wrote Phill ... More >>

At City Hall Federal Corruption Trial, Former DHA CEO Says Hill Wanted a Lott of Love

Former Dallas Housing Authority CEO Ann Lott​This morning at the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial at the Earle Cabell, we are getting insight into the involvement of Ann Lott, former CEO of the Dallas Housing Authority, in this whole sorry mess. I'm not sure where we're headed. But so f ... More >>

How City Hall Really Works: Notes from the City Hall Corruption Trial

Once again, this more or less provides the perfect description of the testimony now being heard in the federal City Hall corruption trial.​O.K., I want to give you an example of the very good lawyering being done by the defense in the City Hall corruption trial going on right now at the Earle Cab ... More >>

In West Dallas, Habitat for Humanity is Cranking and "Crunkin'" It Out

Patrick Michels Tammy Blackmon in front of her new home. Earlier this week, we told you about Habitat for Humanity's latest build project in West Dallas off Westmoreland Road. And, already, nine new homes are a couple days away from being ready for move-in. Unfair Park stopped by yesterday and fo ... More >>

Homes for the Holiday

By week's end, there should be nine new houses in Greenleaf Village II, near the original 5-year-old West Dallas development at Hampton Road and I-30. As we noted back in July, this is the week Whirlpool Corporation and Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity -- and folks who've come to Dallas from all ... More >>

Culbreath Out, Ussery In

Dallas, Betty Culbreath Has Had Enough of You. So, She's Out.

A Second Chance for Second Avenue?

DHA Board Chair Betty Culbreath Serving Hot Ham Sandwiches

Stonewall Jackson's Out

The Dwaine Caraway Show

Starring that new breed of politician who wants to root out your crack houses, close down your whorehouses and pull up your pants

Alphonso Jackson Has a New Nickname, Courtesy The Washington Post

Alphonso Jackson Pays Homage to Alphonso Jackson

Alphonso Jackson and His Wife Know a Lot of People, Sounds Like

More Than a Year Later, Alphonso Jackson's Still Being Investigated

Whirlpool's Going to Clean Up Frazier Courts

Don Hill's Open Letter to You

South Dallas House Going Cheap!

From the Ground Up

Central Dallas Ministries helps the poor find their own bootstraps

Girl on Top on Stage

Gone to Hell

Action Jackson

After the Flood

Plus: Still Living, Wrist Slap, We Screwed Up

The Sins of the Father

Cantankerous, proud and devoted to helping immigrants, Father Justin Lucio's singleminded sense of duty led to overblown charges of "scandal"

Where He Belongs

Plus: Would-be Savior, Big-boy Toy, Housing Heist

Locked In

Trinity Works says it helps poor people find housing and jobs. But an Observer investigation reveals questionable policies that do little except ensure its clients never leave.

Dubya, We Knew You When...

With a homeboy headed for the White House, a handful of his Dallas pals have hopes of making their mark on Washington

Damaged goods

What do you get for 50 bucks a meeting? Thomas Korosec sizes up the man and woman most likely to succeed Al Lipscomb.

Poor vs. poorer

Plans for an expanded Roseland Homes spark a protest in a working-class neighborhood near Cityplace

Gutless coup

Everybody's talking about a takeover at DISD, but nobody wants to do anything about it

Officer down

Thirty-five years ago, Jesse Curry was Dallas' respected, popular police chief. Then Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, and Curry became just one more victim of the Kennedy assassination.

Should Paul Fielding go to jail?

He's violated the public trust and betrayed his own ethical standards. But is Dallas' perpetually annoying councilman guilty of fraud, perjury, and extortion?

Last in the Class

Why nobody will erase the board at Wilmer-Hutchins, the worst-run school district in Texas

Blood sport

There are two to blame for the Kirk-Fielding feud