Dallas Neighbors for Housing Blog

  * All opinions stated are those only of the author, Adam Lamont, and don't represent Dallas Neighbors for Housing or YIMBYAction as a whole* Early voting for the runoffs in District 11 and District 8 start today, May 27th. Dallas Neighbors for Housing has not endorsed in either of the races, but I do want to write an anti-endorsement against Bill Roth in District 11. One of my New Year's Resolutions with having a newborn child was to be more positive, so I felt hesitant to write this. However, this race is going to be close, and as a housing advocate, I do feel like I have to say something about Bill Roth. If you care about making housing more affordable in Dallas, you can't vote for Bill Roth. Roth isn't some run-of-the-mill guy who is skeptical of new housing. He is someone whose experience with the city of Dallas boils down to opposing housing, either Affordable or market-rate.  One of the first housing cases that I followed closely was a proposed Affordable Housin...

 * All opinions stated are those only of the author, Adam Lamont, and don't represent Dallas Neighbors for Housing or YIMBYAction as a whole* First, a brief introduction. I'm Adam, one of tbe founders of Dallas Neighbors for Housing. I teach 7th grade math in DISD, so if at any point while reading this you think it was written by a boring math teacher, you would be correct. When not reminding 12 year olds what the Pythagorean Theorem is, I like to watch City Council meetings and think about how to make housing in Dallas more affordable. I'm an unapologetic, all of the above YIMBY, meaning I think that the city (along with the state and federal government) should do everything they can to make housing more affordable. That means legalizing housing in more places, allowing more of it, providing more funding for it, and enacting stronger protections for tenants. The following analysis comes from that perspective, and I focus heavily on the housing positions of the candidates. ...