Dallas needs regional partners to stop homeless surge | Opinion
since 2022. Around 50% of the people counted as homeless in Plano lived in an emergency shelter, roughly 31% lived in a transitional shelter and 18% were unsheltered. Separately, the story reported that Plano ISD identified roughly 1,000 students as homeless during the 2022-23 school year.
And that’s the ongoing challenge for North Texas. The Dallas mayor’s task force recommended increased funding and loosening zoning and construction regulations to reduce the number of unsheltered individuals and to dismantle homeless encampments. Toward that goal, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax’s proposed city budget includes $1.5 million for decommissioning homeless encampments, another $1 million on building fences to keep homeless individuals out of encampment-prone areas and $1.
But unless the region’s overall housing shortages and affordability challenges abate, homelessness in the region will remain at unacceptable levels. On available rental units alone, Dallas lacks 33,660 affordable units for people making at or below 50% of the area median income, according to a recentThat homelessness hasn’t touched your community in large numbers doesn’t mean that it won’t.
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