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February 24, 2012
In Dallas As in Miami, It's Time to Build Low-Income Housing Where the Jobs Are
Who's a liberal these days, and who are the conservatives? I look in the mirror, I don't even know. I look in The New York Times this morning, I'm even more confused. The Times has a story out of Miami about major cuts in federal housing subsidies. The story calls them "some of the deepest c ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
Before Hearing, Read City's $13-Mil HUD Loan Application for Lake Highlands Town Center
Via.Earlier this month we noted that the city hopes to use $13 million in federal funds to turn 70 acres at Walnut Hill and Skillman into, you know, the Lake Highlands Town Center, where ground was broken way back in November 2007. Behold: On the city's website you'll find a draft of the applicat ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2011
City Hopes $13 Mil in HUD Block Grants Will Jumpstart Lake Highlands Town Center
For those wondering whatever become of the stagnating Lake Highlands Town Center, a ray of hope appears on the council's Economic Development Committee's agenda for Monday: "Community Development Block Grant Section 108 Guaranteed Loan Application for the Lake Highlands Town Center." I'll post th ... More >>
News
November 24, 2011
Whistle-Blowers Claim City Misused Housing Money
Federal dough meant for affordable housing went to downtown.
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Federal Judge Unseals Suit That Asks: Did Dallas Screw HUD Out of Hundreds of Millions?
On June 10, 2010, I wrote a column for the newspaper about an official complaint brought to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by two Dallas developers alleging a decades-old pattern of racial discrimination and fraud by the city of Dallas, the county and other local entit ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
How Hateful Was Robert Jeffress's Mormonism-Is-a-Cult Line? Very, If You Know History.
Alfredo Corchado has a story in today's Dallas Morning News about Mitt Romney's Mexican relatives: "Mitt Romney's relatives in Mexico are supportive but wary." It's a topic that has been in the back of my mind ever since Dallas's own Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of Dallas First Baptist, tri ... More >>
News
February 17, 2011
Dallas City Hall gets whopped upside the head for its low-income housing policy.
Alfredo Corchado has a story in today's Dallas Morning News about Mitt Romney's Mexican relatives: "Mitt Romney's relatives in Mexico are supportive but wary." It's a topic that has been in the back of my mind ever since Dallas's own Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of Dallas First Baptist, tri ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2011
Top 10 Schutze Columns of '10
Nothing slow about us, but just when you thought my third annual list of Schutze's best columns wouldn't take shape, Jim's check finally cleared, so I took the time to look back at his fine work throughout the year and picked out the 10 that made me fall in love with him all over again. As in ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Head of Economic Development Explains $2 Million Grant Proposed for North Oak Cliff
Click to embiggen the map of the area that would be impacted by the proposed $2 million economic development grant.On Friday we sneak-peeked that proposed $2-million economic development grant proposal intended to "support emerging development opportunities in North Oak Cliff." Before Wednesday's ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2010
City Expects $2 Mil In Federal Money Will Spur Development Around Four Light-Rail Stations
The Hatcher Station, one of four light-rail stations identified as by the city as a recipient of the feds' grant announced this morningThis morning we've received several press releases from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation announcing ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2010
How Affordable Is Downtown Dallas Housing? We Send Our Intern to Find Out.
Photos by Elliot KaiserNote from Jim: In the last week of April I asked the city to tell me how many guaranteed low-income housing units are available in downtown Dallas. There should be lots of them by now -a a couple thousand by some estimates -- because over the decades, the city has used hu ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2010
Congo Street Initiative Feted By AIA, HUD For Restoring "Integrity" to Community
AIA/HUDBefore and after along Congo StreetTill a Friend of Unfair Park just pointed it out, I hadn't seen mention made anywhere of Brent Brown and bcWORKSHOP's accolade handed out a few days back by the American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development. Brown's Congo Str ... More >>
News
June 10, 2010
City Hall Had Better Look Over Its Shoulder Because HUD Is Ready To Kick Some Fair-Housing Butt.
AIA/HUDBefore and after along Congo StreetTill a Friend of Unfair Park just pointed it out, I hadn't seen mention made anywhere of Brent Brown and bcWORKSHOP's accolade handed out a few days back by the American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development. Brown's Congo Str ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
A Fond Farewell for M. Thomas Lardner, Uptown Developer and Downtown Visionary
Tom LardnerThis morning's daily newspaper provided a sad occasion to reflect on downtown Dallas. Tom Lardner, an early developer of Dallas's Uptown district, died May 24. His classified-ad death notice is in The Dallas Morning News today but no editorial obituary has appeared yet. I had lunch wit ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2010
Locked Out of LTV Tower Redo, Developer Sends City Council a Very Pointed Letter Today
Curtis Lockey and Craig MacKenzie, erstwhile developers of the LTV Tower 1600 Pacific Building and subjects of my column in the current edition of the paper, have sent to Dallas City Council members and city staffers a letter alleging deliberate discrimination against low-income persons and famil ... More >>
News
May 6, 2010
City Hall's Desire For A Fancy Downtown (Without Too Many Poor People) Costs Developers $30 Million
Curtis Lockey and Craig MacKenzie, erstwhile developers of the LTV Tower 1600 Pacific Building and subjects of my column in the current edition of the paper, have sent to Dallas City Council members and city staffers a letter alleging deliberate discrimination against low-income persons and famil ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2010
What in the Wide World of Sports Does a HUD Secretary Know About Levee Safety?
HUD deputy secretary Ron Sims has quite the résumé, but what does any of it have to do with the Trinity River?Unintentionally hilarious item in The Dallas Morning News today: "Council's Frustration Spills Over," by Rudy Bush on the Metro front, in which council member par excellence Ron Natinsk ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2010
Just How in the Heck Does the City Decide How to Spend Federal CDBG Money Anyway?
Tomorrow, the city council will take a long, hard look at how federal community development block grants are spent -- or, in this case, not. According to the briefing document, there are 109 already approved projects and programs still sitting on $7 million in federal money that was suppose ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2010
The City's Still Trying to Skate on Southern Skates, But HUD Will Have Last Word
No need to recap the sad history of Southern Skates -- our October 19 item about the beleaguered roller rink on East Ledbetter Drive should bring latecomers up to speed, while old-timers know the song by heart. With that, second verse same as the first: The council's Economic Development Committe ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2009
HUD Money, or: If You Think You've Heard the Last of Southern Skates, Oh, Guess Again.
Maybe Dwaine Caraway's right -- keeping Southern Skates open seems a whole lot easier than trying to sell it.Dwaine Caraway wants Southern Skates kept open; Vonciel Jones Hill, in whose district the skating rink on East Ledbetter Drive actually sits, is among those who'd prefer it closed -- or, b ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2009
City, Hamiltons to Rework Atmos Complex Deal in Hopes of Jump-Starting Development
The Atmos Complex, which the Hamiltons are still intending to develop behind the Statler HiltonLarry and Ted Hamilton took control of the four-building Atmos Complex, situated almost directly behind the Statler Hilton, a little more than a year ago, after Forest City got tired of paying penalties ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Everyone Get Out on the Floor! It's an All Skate as City, Yet Again, Ponders Rink's Fate.
Southern SkatesThe first time we wrote about Southern Skates on E. Ledbetter Road was a month after Europe agreed go with the euro, a month before Saving Private Ryan opened and six months before the House impeached Bill Clinton. In other words, a million years ago. Back then, former Black Panthe ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
Forest City's "Not Ready" For Mercantile Continental to Become Landmark. Or Apartments Either. Not Just Yet.
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2008
Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2008
Stonewall Jackson's Out
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2008
Fantroy, Guilty as Charged
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2008
Alphonso Jackson Pays Homage to Alphonso Jackson
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2008
"For the Love of Money": Or, Alphonso Jackson Takes a Gamble
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2008
Alphonso Jackson and His Wife Know a Lot of People, Sounds Like
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2007
More Than a Year Later, Alphonso Jackson's Still Being Investigated
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2007
Housing the Homeless, How Novel
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2007
A Lott of Work to Do at DHA
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2006
No Room at the Inn (Well, Apartment Complex, But, You Know)
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2006
The DHA Mess? It's Getting Messier.
Flickr photo: JVanTJim Truitt, Forest City's vice president of residential development, called me back today to discuss yesterday's meeting of the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee, which did indeed vote to re-initiate the historic designation process for both the Mercantile Continental Bu ... More >>
News
August 17, 2006
Change Is Gonna Come
With some help from his friends, Don Williams intends to save South Dallas one block at a time
Blogs
August 2, 2006
Pie in the Sky
With some help from his friends, Don Williams intends to save South Dallas one block at a time
News
July 20, 2006
The Allure of Azure
Harwood builds a fancy condo tower without a nickel in handouts from City Hall
Blogs
May 22, 2006
Sweep Legal? Oh, That's Richie.
Harwood builds a fancy condo tower without a nickel in handouts from City Hall
Blogs
May 12, 2006
Actionable Jackson
Harwood builds a fancy condo tower without a nickel in handouts from City Hall
News
October 10, 2002
Someplace Like Home
Does Miami hold the key to solving Dallas' downtown homeless problem? Maybe, but it's a very expensive key.
News
March 29, 2001
Houses Divided
A fight over public housing pits working-class East Dallas homeowners against their poorer neighbors in a battle tainted by claims of racism
News
November 2, 2000
Unscrewed
Grenadier wards off injunction, says its Gaston Avenue rehab is back on track
News
June 4, 1998
Spinning wheels
Fahim Minkah cleared one set of hurdles to build a South Dallas skating rink, only to have the city put more in front of him
News
March 19, 1998
Union busting
Managers of a publicly subsidized apartment complex try to shut down tenant organizers
News
January 29, 1998
Gimme Shelter
With public housing under assault from Congress, the Justice Department, and HUD, Dallas tenants' advocate Alice Basey is part of a grassroots movement fighting to keep poor families from going homeless
News
May 29, 1997
A Dream Deferred
Former Black Panther Fahim Minkah seeks redemption for a drug-infested neighborhood, but the Southern Dallas Development Corporation turns its back
News
December 15, 1994
Fee fight
For lawyers, beating the city is only the beginning
News
December 1, 1994
Early thaw
Hope is renewed for four downtown housing projects
News
November 24, 1994
Bad landlord
HUD audit urges ouster of firm targeted in Observer story
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