The program provides Minor Repairs in order to improve the safety and health of our neighbors.

Dwell with Dignity provides needy families with complete home interiors, including: furniture, art, bedding, linens, kitchen supplies, food in the pantry and their first night’s meal.

Capital Impact provides financing to individuals, organizations and companies in order to build new businesses or expand existing facilities that increase access to services for populations made up primarily of low to moderate income residents.

This guide is designed to help you, our neighbors throughout the Dallas community, identify which home repair program is right for you or your loved ones.

Some people wonder what will happen to the value of their home if affordable housing is introduced into their neighborhood. Well, we've got good news for you: multiple studies like this case study by Urban Institute in Alexandria, VA have shown that affordable housing either has no impact on a person's home value, or it actually increases it!

A common fear that people have when talking about introducing affordable housing into their neighborhoods is that crime rates will increase. Study after study shows that crime not only doesn't increase, but it actually decreases!

This report focuses on the ways in which Dallas’ housing landscape has changed over a 5 year time frame. Using the 2017 State of Dallas Housing report as our baseline, the report covers data from the years 2016 to 2021.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Affordable Housing Toolkit assists state and local governments to increase their supply of new affordable housing units.

The newly formed Dallas Housing Coalition, more than 65 for-profit and non-for-profit organizations representing thousands of Dallas residents, today launched its collaborative effort to address the city’s housing crisis. 

Your time, thorough review of proposed projects, and respectful discussion will ensure our success in selecting high-impact projects that address our city’s most significant needs.

In 2022, Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity commissioned the University of North Texas to identify the blighted areas of Dallas. The new study updated research performed a decade earlier. The goal of the 2022 study is to assess and map current patterns of blight as well as to reveal how patterns of blight in the city of Dallas have changed since 2011.

Racial and economic inclusion are integral to Dallas’ housing growth. Accordingly, through the Dallas Housing Policy 2033, the City seeks to continue to reduce disparities that disproportionately impact historically disadvantaged communities by providing quality affordable mixed-income housing initiatives across the City.

This report is intended to better define a series of problem statements so that we might break apart a complex issue (housing affordability) into discrete, actionable components.