Neighborhoods that Need more Housing Series

Allow me to indulge a personal story for a minute. When I was in high school, my mom really wanted me to apply to a school with a good geography program. Even though I loved looking at maps and such, I thought that she was wrong because 16 year old boys always think their mom's are wrong. Well, fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, and I was trying like crazy to find a website I could use to get demographic info at a neighborhood level. I couldn't navigate the Census website accurately, and I almost lost hope until I found PolicyMap.com. The website is an absolute treasure trove of accessible data. 

We are using it to detail how wealthy neighborhoods have not built any new housing in their neighborhoods, causing the cost of housing citywide to increase and creating displacement for poorer residents. For the first two neighborhoods that we have looked at, the number of housing units in both went DOWN in the last 20 years. Even I was surprised by that fact. You can read the full threads with all of the neighborhood statistics below. 


A lot of YIMBY groups, whether fairly or unfairly, are seen as advocating for gentrification. We want to make clear that what we are going to fight for is more housing all across Dallas, particularly in the wealthiest, most high opportunity neighborhoods in Dallas. Dallas remains as segregated as it does because wealthy neighborhoods have successfully blocked any housing near to them. 

-Adam Lamont

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