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New industrial activity at Shingle Mountain must force Dallas to fix its unjust zoning decisions

New industrial activity at Shingle Mountain must force Dallas to fix its unjust zoning decisions
Southern Dallas leaders Frederick Haynes and Michael Sorrell call out the city for failing to protect this vulnerable neighborhood from environmental racism.
Dr. Frederick Haynes, pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, asked for accountability from Dallas city leaders during a community meeting Monday, streamed on Facebook Live, at the home of Southern Sector Rising leader Marsha Jackson.(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor)
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Dallas City Hall’s failure to fix unjust decades-old zoning decisions sends a “y’all come” invitation for the next Shingle Mountain to invade the southeast neighborhood of Floral Farms. ....

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More Housing Vouchers Are Coming to Texas. But Will Landlords Accept Them?

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pumping money into the effort to reduce homelessness across the country. The department announced this week it was allocating $5 billion in American Rescue Plan funds for emergency housing vouchers to be dispersed nationwide.
Through the voucher program, HUD is sending out 70,000 housing choice vouchers for homeless individuals and families or those at risk of becoming homeless. Dallas will receive about 1,100.
In a press release, Mayor Eric Johnson thanked President Joe Biden s administration for this much-needed assistance that will make our city stronger.
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However, some have reported disparities in the housing choice voucher program and say landlords are reluctant to take the vouchers. ....

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Amid the worst environmental racism still heaped on vulnerable Dallas residents, Paul Quinn College joins the fight

Amid the worst environmental racism still heaped on vulnerable Dallas residents, Paul Quinn College joins the fight
Amid the worst environmental racism still heaped on vulnerable Dallas residents, Paul Quinn College joins the fight
How its new Urban Research Initiative is helping neighbors and advocates trying to rid Floral Farms of a legacy of Shingle Mountain and other industrial hazards.
Five-year-old David Rojas rides his bike in front of his family s home on Bird Lane in the Floral Farms neighborhood of southeast Dallas. Eighteen-wheelers and other commercial trucks use the narrow street many times daily to get to an industrial recycling and waste disposal site on Bird Lane.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) ....

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A Criminal Justice Reform Premise That Is Statistically Flawed

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James Scanlan | April 4, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT
James ScanlanThere exists an essentially universal belief that generally reducing adverse criminal justice outcomes will tend to reduce (a) relative racial differences in rates of experiencing the outcomes (as commonly presented in terms of the ratio of the rate for Black individuals to that of white individuals) and (b) the proportion Black individuals make up of persons experiencing the outcomes (compared with the proportion they make up of the population).
The belief underlies the calls for defunding the police that were heard in many places over the past year. The belief also plays an important role in support for criminal justice reforms aimed at generally reducing prison populations, expanding options for pretrial release and diversion programs for defendants with low risk of recidivism, de-incentivizing traffic stops, and modifying police practices in ways that can reduce all adverse intera ....

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Racist clauses in property deeds can't be enforced, but still exist. A Texas bill would make it easier to remove them.

Racist clauses in property deeds can’t be enforced, but still exist. A Texas bill would make it easier to remove them.
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An untold number of Texas properties still have language in their deeds that put racial restrictions on who can occupy them, even though the U.S. Supreme Court declared such restrictions illegal decades ago. (Credit: Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune)
James McGee knows well the history of housing discrimination against Black people like him in Texas. He worked in the mortgage industry for 20 years and now advocates for the revitalization of southern Dallas, an area where the majority of residents are Black or Hispanic. ....

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