Housing

Unlike last year when the city received federal funds to shelter the homeless in hotels, that funding is no longer available this year, and hotel prices are higher. The city of Dallas is hoping that its new inclement weather policy will also help open the doors to the homeless all around the city rather than the concentrated services that are downtown.

This will be the city's third task force in two years. The co-chair of the task force says he wants the city's attorney to clearly spell out what the city can and cannot do when it comes to regulating short-term rentals on platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo.

A non-profit founded by veterans to serve veterans is focused on ending veteran homelessness. U.S. Vets is helping homeless veterans and their families gain independence and freedom that they helped fight for.

The pantry to help students in need was started about six years ago by a teacher. But when the pandemic hit and volunteers could no longer come inside the school to help, special education students stepped up. It’s a win-win situation that helps students in need while also helping special education students develop life and work skills.

Nearly two months after a military plane crashed in a Lake Worth neighborhood, one family is still living out of a hotel room.

A 60-year old woman’s apartment kitchen caught fire while she was sleeping on Aug. 3. Nearly three months later, next to nothing has been fixed by the complex. The complex is owned by the same group that owns Highland Hills Apartments across the street, where an apartment building exploded last month following a shooting that police say caused a gas leak.

The city told tenants they could move back in. But when some did, they were met with disturbing living conditions. After code enforcement took a look, some apartments were found to be not safe and haven’t been safe. It might be weeks or months before they can return.

People whose apartments were seriously damaged by a natural gas explosion call their living conditions "unacceptable."

The arrest affidavit says Phillip Dankins argued with the mother of his baby, then later returned and fired several rounds into the apartment where a neighbor had been protecting the mother and child.

Dallas police filed criminal charges on Tuesday of deadly conduct against a suspect accused of causing the Sept. 29 apartment explosion by shooting into an apartment and damaging a gas line.

For one Little Elm family, their backyard retaining wall and fence have fallen into the backyard behind them. But by Little Elm city ordinance, repairing the breach is their responsibility. “The only way I can raise that kind of money is to sell the house."

Exactly two weeks since a gas explosion at the Highland Hills Apartment complex, there is a good update on some of the firefighters hurt in the blast, but residents are being hit with a new round of discouragement.

A workshop for renters and landlords covered the mounds of money available for people behind on their rent after losing wages because of the pandemic. The two groups stood side by side in a place where they are typically squared off with a landlord evicting a tenant: in a justice of the peace courtroom.

More than 100 residents were moved Thursday to the Hilton Anatole hotel, where the city has secured about 80 rooms for the next few days.

No insurance. No permits. One Little Elm homeowner says she had no idea what she was getting into. Her experience just might make or break your next home project.

Time is running out for residents affected by last week's apartment building explosion to find a new place to live.

A Navy veteran was welcomed into his new family home in Fort Worth Tuesday morning. They get to live in the home rent-free while they transition from the constantly moving military life to everyday civilian life.

The city of Dallas says, for now, it will pay for the nearly 300 displaced residents staying at hotels after the Oak Cliff apartment building they were living in exploded last week.