Builders of Hope

Churches,Frazier,Mill City
TREC’s first Mill City revitalization project gives Zan Wesley Holmes Outreach Center its own building
In a sense, the Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Community Outreach […]
Housing + Property Taxes,West Dallas
Stephanie Champion receives the first Raul Reyes Jr. Housing Advocacy Award
The award is named for the late West Dallas leader who fought tirelessly for housing rights on behalf of his neighbors.
Development + Zoning,West Dallas
Builders of Hope Breaks Ground On Affordable West Dallas Rentals
Builders of Hope, a West Dallas-based housing nonprofit, broke ground […]
Housing + Property Taxes,South Dallas,West Dallas
Builders of Hope Unveils Plan to Protect Neighborhoods, But Residents Remain Skeptical of City
Earl D. Thomas, a Victory Gardens resident, is a third-generation […]
Dallas News
Demand for protesting property values goes up as families fight to stay in their homes
Property tax consultant Toby Toler worked with more than 100 people over DCAD’s four-week protest period in April and May. He feels like the majority of the people he helped in Southern Dallas were able to successfully challenge their property values and lower their taxes.
Gilbert-Emory/Muncie,West Dallas
Did Dallas ISD’s sale of the segregated Fred Douglass School seal Gilbert-Emory’s fate?
It wasn’t until Emmanuel Glover and Sarah Ashitey moved into Gilbert-emory that they learned their new house was in a historical African-American settlement.
South Dallas,South Dallas
A new public safety project in Mill City may be a solution to the city’s 311 problem
A task force on safe communities is spending $150,000 to help clean up nearly 600 vacant lots in Mill City, with the goal of cutting crime along with the grass in the neighborhood.
West Dallas
Goal of neighborhood-led West Dallas plan is ‘teeth,’ accountability
A neighborhood-led plan "will be used to shape the future of West Dallas for the next 10 to 20 years,” and act to "slow down the fast-paced gentrification that is running a risk of literally changing the thread of our community and wiping away the history," says James Armstrong III.