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  Rising Rents and Low-Wage Pay Put Burden on Dallas Renters

  July 31 at 4 a.m.

  To afford the average two-bedroom apartment rent in Dallas without spending 30 percent of monthly income on rent, a renter must make at least $56,743 a year, according to an annual report by SmartAsset, a financial information website. The median rate for a two-bedroom Dallas apartment, SmartAsset found, is about...

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  Dallas Is the Forbidding City for Many Renters

  June 18 at 4 a.m.

  Here’s a hobby. Spend some time finding out how many places in the United States you can’t live. Well, places where you can’t live if you also want to eat. Then here’s a thought. Quit feeling sorry for yourself and find out hard it is for people to live and...

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  West Dallas Landlord Khraish and His Lawyer Answer Lawsuit Accusations With a Bit of a Dare

  June 14 at 4 a.m.

  To snatch or not to snatch? That is the question that has been keeping me awake nights. The only thing that can put me back to sleep is rereading my own stuff. A week ago, I wrote a column here about West Dallas landlord Khraish Khraish, whom two legal aid...

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  Someone Is Lying to West Dallas Home-Buyers, But It Might Not Be Khraish Khraish

  June 6 at 4 a.m.

  The worst accusation against West Dallas landlord Khraish Khraish is that he took advantage of poor people who don’t speak English and tricked them into one-sided financial deals. If that’s true, he should be brought to justice. But what if his accusers are the ones bamboozling poor non-English speakers? A...

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  Dallas Rolls Out Triage Plan as City's Homeless Population Increases

  June 5 at 4 a.m.

  Despite the best efforts of the city of Dallas and the Citizens Homeless Commission, the city's homeless population is up almost 10 percent from 2017-18, with the number of unsheltered homeless in the city increasing even more, by 23 percent, over the same period. In order to quickly address the...

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  Khraish Khraish: Hero or Villain in West Dallas' Affordable Housing Drama?

  June 4 at 4 a.m.

  Khraish Khraish — he whose first name is the same as his last — has become the great binary mystery of Dallas. This 41-year-old West Dallas businessman is either the city’s greatest hero, savior of the poor and architect of a better tomorrow for all, or he is a duplicitous...