Dallas Housing Coalition

✅🎉 in a 10-4 vote yesterday, the City Planning Commission advanced ForwardDallas to the Dallas City Council to begin its review. Commissioner Lorie Blair of District 8 made the motion, feeling comfortable with the protections put in place and the Commission’s hard work rewriting the plan, dissecting it, and writing it again to make sure that single-family detached had prominence. As the plan keeps attached single-family housing as a viable primary use alongside detached single-family housing in this visionary document, Commissioner Darrell Herbert of District 3 added, “it is clear single-family only zoning is a relic of a discriminatory past, artificially inflating housing costs, fostering segregation and limiting our community’s potential for diversity and inclusivity.” The next steps for the plan are revisions by City staff to incorporate the final round of CPC edits approved yesterday and presenting the updated draft to the Dallas City Council’s Economic Development Council Committee on Monday, August 5, at 1 PM for discussion: https://lnkd.in/g7HQEN-3 #DallasHousingForAll #DallasHousingCoalition

Housing for All Webinar is live with Rhonda Boston, a high school counselor and board member of In This House led by Leslie Chaggaris, discussing the impact housing has on students and families and how we can create and preserve more housing for all.

Going back to our June 25 Fair Housing Panel, Maureen Milligan, the Central Field Director at Grow America (formerly NDC), informed our audience that affordable housing advocacy is a marathon and not a sprint. As examples, we must ensure all our publicly funded projects are successfully completed, track where our affordable housing units are, and hold property management companies accountable to provide those affordable units.

Welcome back to our short video series centered around ForwardDallas. Meet Christopher Granberry, a college student from the Dallas area, sharing Dallas' history conducting comprehensive planning. Did you know Dallas first adopted ForwardDallas in 2006? It's true. In fact, at that time, a ForwardDallas citizen survey showed that 73% of respondents said Dallas would need more affordable housing in the future and 68% said affordable housing should be integrated in neighborhoods throughout the city. Financing, like the May 2024 housing bond, is only one part of the affordable housing puzzle. ForwardDallas is another major piece to creating a more inclusive Dallas for all residents and is sorely needed because most cities update their comprehensive land use plans every 5-10 years. To submit a comment in support of ForwardDallas, visit this link (or the link in our bio for IG) and stay tuned for our next episode soon: https://lnkd.in/erJryVv9

As the City Plan Commission reconvenes today to potentially recommend the adoption of ForwardDallas to the Dallas City Council, on July 11, Hexel Colorado of Dallas Urbanists supported ForwardDallas, comparing the city to Dallas to a maturing single family with needs, wants, desires, and priorities that change as the family grows in numbers. ForwardDallas helps us meet Dallas' evolution.

Powerful stuff from Brinda Gurumoorthy, a Dallas Independent School District teacher who spoke in favor of ForwardDallas on July 11. She pointed out zoning decisions are still made at the neighborhood level, diversifying the housing stock is good for everyone, and many DISD teachers drive into Dallas from over 40 minutes everyday to get to work. We need missing middle housing for teachers, nurses, DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) operators, and more to live near where they work, send their kids to our schools, and participate in our communities. Dallas is already becoming more expensive to live in without an update to ForwardDallas because too few places allow housing to be built. #DallasHousingCoalition #DallasHousingForAll

On July 11, Harry Swanson, a senior like many members of AARP, talked about the lack of starter homes for renters to access, how starter homes like duplexes, triplexes, and cottages used to be widely available in Dallas when they were built in the 1920s-1940s, and admits he would love to sell his home to downsize to a cottage if he could. Thank you for sharing your testimony, Harry! #DallasHousingCoalition #DallasHousingForAll

¡Este viernes a las 11:00 a. m., vea el próximo episodio de la serie de seminarios web “Vivienda para todos” presentada por Andrea Glispie, miembro de la junta directiva de DHC, de Charles Schwab! Esta semana, la acompaña Rhonda Boston de Richardson Independent School District. El seminario web se transmitirá en X, FB, YouTube y LinkedIn. #DallasHousingCoalition #DallasHousing.

This Friday at 11:00 AM, watch the next episode of the “Housing for All” Webinar Series hosted by DHC board member Andrea Glispie of Charles Schwab! This week, she's joined by Rhonda Boston of Richardson Independent School District. The webinar will be streamed on X, FB, YouTube, and LinkedIn. #DallasHousingCoalition #DallasHousing.

For a July 11 virtual speaker highlight, Jennifer Rangel of RAYO Planning discussed Dallas' and our country's history of race relations and using local tools such as zoning and land use plans to promote segregation, leading to exclusionary neighborhoods because of limited housing options, polluted neighborhoods, and neighborhoods facing alarming pressures of displacement. Future housing developments should promote fair housing, be diverse, and contextually based on their neighborhood with cultural and historical sensitivities. #DallasHousingCoalition #DallasHousingForAll