Gloria Johnson

Dallas News,Development + Zoning,Gilbert-Emory/Muncie,History,Housing + Property Taxes,Local Government,Racial Equity,West Dallas
West Dallas residents fight displacement as new townhomes reshape community
The historically Black working-class neighborhood of Gilbert-Emory in West Dallas is facing gentrification due to the influx of new, much larger homes and the sale of the land where the segregated Black Fred Douglass School once stood, leading to frustration among longtime residents.
Gilbert-Emory/Muncie,West Dallas
Gilbert-Emory neighbors watch their historically Black community vanish, one half-million-dollar townhome at a time
The rapid sweep of gentrification has already wiped away many old homes in the once redlined Gilbert-Emory community.