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  Fastest Growing Jobs in Dallas Can't Cover Typical New Housing Costs, Study Finds

  October 27 at 4 a.m.

  By 2045, more than 270,000 households in Dallas are expected to experience problems like overcrowding or cost burdens. To prevent this with new affordable housing construction could take a $40 billion housing subsidy, according to the preliminary findings of a study conducted by the consulting firm BAE Urban Economics Inc...

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  City Planning Committee Rejects Warehouse Project in Southern Dallas

  October 16 at 9:32 a.m.

  The City Plan Commission on Wednesday rejected a zoning request for a 175-acre warehouse project in southern Dallas that nearby residents said would bring more pollution, more traffic congestion and lower property values to an area already overstuffed with warehouses. City staff had recommended approval of the rezoning for Dallas-based...

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  After Months of Struggle, a Denton Neighborhood Finally Gets Clean Water

  October 6 at 4 a.m.

  Ednna will never forget it: The sound of the faucet turning, the elation in her husband’s voice and the sight of pure, clear water — not that yellow stuff they were used to — trickling into the kitchen sink. “It was amazing,” she says in Spanish. “It made it all...

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  Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee Lays Out Budget Priorities

  August 7 at 4 a.m.

  The number of murders in Dallas is on track to surpass 200 for the second year in a row, and the pandemic's economic damage threatens to drive many more renters from their homes. Affordable housing in the city is already in short supply. No wonder then that Dallas City Council...

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  Here's Where the Initial Funding from Coronavirus Rental Assistance Program Went

  June 23 at 4 a.m.

  Almost as soon as Dallas began taking applications for its COVID-19 rental assistance program, the $13.7 million allocated was already spent. About 10,000 residents made it through an initial screening in early May when the program went live, according to the city. About 1,500 received some help, and more than...

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  COVID-19 Forces Dallas Homelessness Advocates to Get Creative

  May 5 at 4 a.m.

  Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Texas, many shelters that serve Dallas’ homeless population have shut their doors, diverting their clients to hotels or motels as they did when faced with overflow before the pandemic. Those who are sleeping in shelters or motel rooms are subject to stringent social distancing regulations,...