Story: ‘Hostile Takeover’: West Dallas Homeowners Battle New Developments, Rising Taxes
Story: ‘Hostile Takeover’: West Dallas Homeowners Battle New Developments, Rising Taxes
By Dianne Solis, Dallas Morning News
Paywall: Gentrification has made Gilbert-Emory one of the hottest real estate plays in the city, but at what cost to longtime residents?
Watch: A Black neighborhood in West Dallas is disappearing as new townhomes rise
Watch the video here: The houses of a dwindling number of longtime residents sit in one of the hottest real estate plays in North Texas — in Gilbert-Emory, once a predominantly Black neighborhood in West Dallas, south of Singleton Boulevard, not far from the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
Did sale of historically Black Frederick Douglass School seal the fate of Gilbert-Emory neighborhood?
KERA | By Diane Solis | Dallas Morning News, Sujata Dand | Dallas Free Press/KERA
The nonprofit Builders of Hope is working with the city of Dallas to create an anti-displacement program categorizing neighborhoods at risk of rapid gentrification.
Read more here.
Listen: Gilbert-Emory neighbors watch their historically Black community vanish, one half-million-dollar townhome at a time
KERA | By Diane Solis | Dallas Morning News, Sujata Dand | Dallas Free Press/KERA
Listen here: The phone won’t stop ringing at Gloria Johnson’s home. This is the third call she’s received in the last hour. All three callers want to buy her home, and her answer is always the same.
“No, ma’am. The property is not for sale.”