2024 Evictions in Dallas County: Understanding Filings, Outcomes, and Displacement
Since 2020, CPAL has reported eviction filing data for Dallas County in briefs and presentations and through the North Texas Eviction Project.
For the first time, we are also able to report on the lifecycle of eviction cases in Dallas County, from the initial eviction filing to judgment to execution of the writ of possession. Better understanding the lifecycle of eviction proceedings is important as we seek opportunities to help tenants remain stably housed. Ensuring tenants physically receive their citation and know to appear in court, for example, is a necessary first step in hearing the complete facts of the case: if a tenant does not know an eviction has been filed against them, then they will not have an opportunity to share their side of the story and will lose their case by default.
Exploring the lifecycle of eviction cases by Justice of the Peace court also illustrates the uneven experience of tenants in eviction proceedings across Dallas County. How tenants are notified of the eviction filing, how quickly their case moves, and how often tenants prevail all vary widely, depending on the assigned court.
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CPAL Launches Mobile Clinic to Enhance Family Planning
In partnership with Parkland Health, CPAL's Trust Her team launches a mobile clinic to enhance family planning services for Dallas College students.
- Partnering with Parkland Health Foundation, Dallas College, and philanthropic partners led by the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at Communities Foundation of Texas, a Trust Her mobile clinic has been launched in North Texas to continue CPAL’s work to improve maternal health by helping ensure women and families have the resources they need to plan for their futures.
- This barrier-free clinic is designed to meet women literally where they are, and to provide same-day access to birth control regardless of ability to pay.
Equity in Bond Planning
This report highlights DISD's efforts to make place-based investments in historically redlined communities with bond funding.
- The bond designated $41 million to create community hubs providing wraparound services in four feeder patterns: Spruce in Pleasant Grove, Lincoln in South Dallas, West Dallas’ Pinkston, and Oak Cliff’s Roosevelt.
- Community Resource Index data across 40 indicators and 5 domains underscore what we know to be true: that these communities have experienced disinvestment as a result of intentional policy-making.
Yes, Dallas violent crime dropped in 2022, but the number of arrests is even more
CPAL analysis shows Dallas is getting safer while the number of arrests continues to fall.
- Reducing those arrests that do not make us safer is important: 80%+ of arrests are for nonviolent offenses and 75% of the jail population is pretrial, impacting thousands of children and families.
- A recent CPAL study showed Dallas County children are more likely than kids in any other Texas county to have parents in prison. At least 80,000 of them had a parent behind bars, according to the report.