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  Child Caught in Gunfight's Crossfire in Troubled City-Run Apartments

  September 19 at 4 a.m.

  Gunfire injured a child on Friday during a fight in the parking lot of the Dallas Housing Authority-owned Hidden Ridge Apartments in Lake Highlands. According to the Dallas Police Department, someone shot into a crowd of people, striking the unidentified child. Someone in the crowd then fired at the shooter. The...

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  Meet The Homeless Man Who's Trying To Organize Dallas' Homeless

  August 24 at 4 a.m.

  James Dunn comes hurtling out of the shade of the tree-laced AT&T Plaza downtown, holding a cell phone that just ran out of batteries and a folder full of looseleaf paper. The 59-year-old has been fielding calls from hundreds of homeless across the city and taking down notes for how...

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  Dallas City Council Divided on Housing Equity, United in Wanting Austin to Butt Out

  August 17 at 4 a.m.

  The Dallas City Council Housing Committee may not agree on the best way to disperse affordable housing throughout the city, but they are on the same page when it comes to what they don't want. No one wants Texas state lawmakers in Austin to tell the city of Dallas what...

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  Dallas' Homeless Are Not Impressed By the City's Latest Homeless Commission

  August 12 at 4 a.m.

  Andrew Duffey, 31, sat outside Dallas City Hall in the sweltering heat on Wednesday and smoked a cigarette. He was mulling over the city council meeting that he just witnessed, one of an estimated 200 homeless men and women who attended that morning. They arrived with hopes of speaking to...

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  Section 8 City: Can Dallas Help Voucher Holders Escape the Ghetto?

  July 25 at 9:14 a.m.

  No one who lives in the Estell Village Apartments very much wants to live in Estell Village Apartments. It’s a housing project, after all, 291 units spread across a warren of white-and-beige barracks near Paul Quinn College in southeast Oak Cliff. The apartments themselves are nice enough, no frills but...

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  Housing Policy for Dallas Would Be World According to Lockey and MacKenzie

  June 30 at 4 a.m.

  Probably all I’ll ever have to tell you about myself is that recently, while reading a City Hall PowerPoint presentation on a proposed new housing policy, I laughed out loud. You already know never to invite me to dinner, right? Can’t help myself. Look. I have written about Curtis Lockey...