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  DHA Is Opening Applications for its Rent Assistance Program Tuesday

  January 20 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas' housing authority will begin accepting new applications for its housing voucher program at 9 a.m. Tuesday. It's the first time DHA has accepted new applicants to the program in years. The program provides a voucher that caps rent at 30% of a family's income. It's available to families with low...

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  Check Out How Much Dallas Rents Have Gone Up Over the Last Decade

  January 17 at 4 a.m.

  People across North Texas, and in Dallas specifically, have progressively gotten squeezed by the region's rental market, according to a report from RENTCafe, a rental market analysis website. Despite robust apartment construction, rental costs have skyrocketed, far outpacing household income gains. At the beginning of the decade, in 2010, the average...

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  A New Way to Talk About Black Urban Poverty, a Promise of Action and Hope

  January 16 at 4 a.m.

  We struggle, strive, scrape our shins and freeze our toes to see what’s on top of the cliff of urban poverty. Once up there, we all see the same thing. And we all shrug and say, “I am not seeing this.” What we don’t want to see is race. More...

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  The City Promised 6,600 New Affordable Homes. It Delivered 320.

  January 15 at 4 a.m.

  In early 2018, the city released a plan to build thousands of new units of affordable housing. When the plan was introduced, then-Mayor Mike Rawlings said, "This is a very important day to show that government works in America, and we can take complex issues and get 15 of us...

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  Dallas City Staff Rolls Out Cold-Weather Shelter Plan

  January 15 at 4 a.m.

  One of Dallas' oddest but still really consequential fights limped through another round at City Hall on Tuesday, as city staff, council members and advocates for the homeless pushed, pulled and tugged at a proposed ordinance that will finally codify just who, and who isn't, allowed to provide shelter for...

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  Moving on Up: A Project to Place Public Housing Tenants in Better Neighborhoods Gets a Boost

  January 14 at 4 a.m.

  When Donna Pryor walked into her new three-bedroom home on a tree-lined street in Plano, she was mesmerized. There was a clean yard, a huge kitchen and  a swimming pool out back. Finally, her children would be safe. Pryor left home when she was 13 to escape her drug-addicted mother. Pregnant...