HOUSING

Fair Housing Month: Discover your rights in Dallas this April
| April 9, 2025
Dallas hosts Fair Housing Roadshow in April, offering free workshops on housing rights and discrimination protections across multiple neighborhoods.

‘Striking close to home’: Zoning bills tackling Texas affordable housing crisis evoke emotion
| March 25, 2025
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As part of a potential slate of solutions to Texas’ housing affordability crisis, state senators recently examined a bill authorizing the use of small auxiliary residences behind a larger main house.

Federal investigators were preparing two Texas housing discrimination cases — until Trump took over
| March 25, 2025
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The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.

Texas has a housing affordability crisis. Here’s how state lawmakers may tackle it in 2025.
| January 6, 2025
A likely fight over how much power to take away from local governments may dominate the debate. DALLAS — Buying or renting a home in Texas used to be relatively cheap. Amid the state’s economic boom, its once-celebrated housing affordability has slipped. Texas renters now spend more on keeping a roof over their head than […]

These 3 bills could impact Dallas’ affordable housing crisis
| December 13, 2024
Dallas housing advocates are hopeful about legislation that would allow workforce housing, small dwellings on single-family lots.

Fort Worth business owners to design toolkit to aid with homelessness issues
| November 20, 2024
Fort Worth businesses will soon have a new tool to address issues involving homeless people. Business owners have told the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce that homelessness is a daily concern that impacts their operations — whether it’s trespassing, disruptions or other incidents. To help, the chamber launched a Homelessness Task Force to develop a […]