Reports
Housing in Dallas: A Framework for Action
Our vision is that all children and their families can access housing that is healthy and safe, affordable, stable, and in a thriving community.
This framework for action and accompanying vignettes detail the way in which CPAL organizes its efforts to address issues of housing quality, affordability, location, and stability for children and families in Dallas.
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Data Tools
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.
Reports
Mayor's Task Force on Safe Communities
This 2019 report provides recommendations on non-law enforcement solutions to crime and violence in Dallas.
- Philadelphia’s blight remediation program reduced firearm assaults by 39%--a relatively low-cost intervention that is backed by empirical evidence that can be implemented in Dallas.
- New York’s targeted lighting pilot reduced nighttime index crimes by 36% and generated a 3x ROI. This can be replicated in Dallas by using tower lighting or expanding LED lighting in micro-geographies with high incidence of crime and low lighting.
Reports
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.