Dallas County-backed projects promise 1,300 more affordable housing units.
The county justifies the use of federal COVID-19 dollars to build homes in Dallas County by saying lower income families felt the economic constraints of the pandemic more acutely, driving a need for new homes.
While the county has always had a grant program to help cities rebuild noncompliant homes, the federal dollars have expanded the county’s foray into housing. The county is limited in how it can allocate dollars by state law, but the federal dollars allow for Dallas County to invest in projects through grants to nonprofits, covering infrastructure costs or purchasing land.
The county has granted $469,000 to Inspiring You To Greatness, a nonprofit that focuses on developing affordable housing to low-to-moderate income communities. “One of the things that historically happened – we cluster all the people of like-incomes together,” Price said."You don’t have that here.”The Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity plans to build 30 more affordable for-sale homes in the Dallas neighborhood of Joppa with $1.64 million from the county’s ARPA coffers.
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