A Dallas task force on homelessness is recommending increased funding and the loosening of zoning and construction regulations to reduce the number of...
The report also advocated for the city to fund 16 new street outreach workers. The workers, employed by nonprofits but funded by the city or county, would be responsible for going into encampments and encouraging homeless individuals to move to shelters.
The task force focused its efforts on reducing the number of unsheltered homeless individuals, or people who reside in places not meant for human habitation. Unsheltered homeless individuals represent only a portion of Dallas’s total homeless population. City funding toward housing and homelessness also needs to increase, the group said. While it didn’t list a specific amount or source, the group eyed Dallas’s 2024 bond program as one way to increase funding for homelessness.
“We’ve come together because Dallas has become unaffordable for so many,” said Ashley Brundage, a vice president of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and a member of the coalition. Brundage noted how the median income in Dallas is $58,200, but the average home price is now $405,000.
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