Reports

Housing in Dallas: A Framework for Action

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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

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.
CPAL in the News

Crime in Dallas isn’t as random as you may think. Here’s how police can predict it.

CPAL has used risk-terrain modeling to help identify areas of high risk for violent crime.

  • Once identified, police and community members work together to create “risk narratives.” These are hypotheses on how environmental aspects work together to create the potential for crime.
  • Atlantic City, N.J., is perhaps the most celebrated case study for risk terrain modeling. In the first year, violent crime dropped 26% compared to the prior year. Robberies fell by 37%.
CPAL in the News

Dallas must get every penny of federal infrastructure funds

CPAL leadership will guide a working group aiming to maximize Dallas’ share of available federal infrastructure dollars.

  • Dallas is eligible for an estimated $4 billion in formula funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act.
  • The group will coordinate with officials to give voice to constituent concerns and leverage existing funds, with a goal to improve infrastructure across the city for future generations.