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  City Hall Screws One of its Best Friends in Affordable Housing

  September 16 at 4 a.m.

  On the one hand, this new story about the city screwing over some affordable housing developers is depressingly familiar. On the other hand, it’s utterly inexplicable. Every single thing I ever reported in some 15 years covering the Lockey & MacKenzie case about the city shafting affordable housing developers is...

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  Oh, No. Extremely Slim Possibility Trump Did Something Right on Housing.

  September 11 at 4 a.m.

  If old South Dallas can bloom, if the open wounds of racism and red-lining up and down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard can be closed and healed, then the entire body of the city will breathe heartier and happier. And maybe, just maybe, that’s what we are beginning to see...

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  Does South Dallas Need City Hall to Save It? Does Anybody?

  September 2 at 4 a.m.

  Last week, I wrote about some astonishing trends in property values in what has long been one of the city’s poorest, most racially segregated neighborhoods. Old South Dallas, which extends about a mile south from Fair Park, is seeing increases of almost 100% in as little as a year. After...

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  Want to Make Real Money on Real Estate? Go Straight to South Dallas.

  August 29 at 4 a.m.

  Just because something is below my radar doesn’t mean it’s below yours. Maybe you knew all about this, but I was astonished, mainly because it has been right in front of my nose for so long. The part of South Dallas I’ve been writing about for years, near Jim’s Car...

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  New Immigration Rules Would Limit Access to Green Cards

  August 14 at 4 a.m.

  Immigrant advocates say that the new rules would unfairly target minority immigrants who come to the country legally and make it harder for families to succeed here.

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  Proposed Apartment Complex and Lack of Transparency Worry Denton Residents

  August 12 at 4 a.m.

  A proposed apartment complex in Denton threatens the character of the neighborhood, residents say.