Community Resource Explorer
CPAL built the Community Resource Explorer to ensure that all Dallas neighborhoods are places of great opportunity for children and their families.
Dallas neighborhoods are unique, each with their own stories to tell, people to celebrate, and places to love. Our neighborhoods are a tremendous asset to our city. However, some neighborhoods are well-appointed with resources, like grocery stores and doctor’s offices and park space, but many others are not.
The CRE is a diagnostic tool that illustrates how resources are allocated across five categories and 30+ indicators in neighborhoods around Dallas ISD schools. The intent of the tool is to help frontline institutions act on relevant, specific data so that investment decisions and resource allocation can have the greatest impact.
Our hope is that the CRE can help right the wrongs of the past by bringing new programs and services, economic development opportunities, and public amenities to communities that have been under-resourced for far too long.
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Role of Junk Fees in the Dallas Rental Housing Market
During summer 2024, CPAL began to explore the role of junk fees in the rental housing market in Dallas.
- 56 out of 60 apartment complexes surveyed charged mandatory monthly fees (i.e., “junk fees”), in addition to the base rent.
- These fees cost renters, on average, $756 to $984 per year, further eroding housing affordability.
Community Resource Explorer
The CRE uses data to visualize the assets and disparities that exist within and across Dallas neighborhoods.
- Centered on the two-mile radius around each school, the CRE illustrates how well school communities are resourced and ongoing needs for investment.
- The CRE indexes all the community schools in Dallas and evaluates their resourcing across categories such as economics, education, family, health, and community while also giving historical context to the data we see.
Trust Her Clinic Finder
The Trust Her Clinic Finder tool helps Dallas residents find and access free/affordable birth control options.
- Today, 1.8 million Texas women of childbearing age cannot afford birth control.
- It can take a Texas woman 7 months or more to obtain her contraceptive of choice and we want to change that.