WIC Playbook
CPAL, IDEO.org, and Texas and Dallas WIC have partnered to understand how we might increase uptake of WIC benefits from both clinic and participant perspectives. Through research and prototyping in Dallas, we discovered pain points and a few opportunity areas to test with the goal of improving the benefit program.
This Playbook is your first step to prototyping different concepts within the opportunity areas. It highlights some of the key ideas, gives you guiding principles to follow, and helps you start building low-cost, quick, and low-fidelity prototypes to test and iterate upon. This process will help you start to identify which ideas will have the most impact.
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North Texas Eviction Project
NTEP empowers providers, agencies, and policymakers with actionable eviction data to support housing stability in Dallas.
- Eviction disproportionately impacts communities of color, and the likelihood of receiving an eviction judgment is highest for mothers with children.
- NTEP has been used to identify eviction "hotspots" - neighborhoods with a high density of eviction filings - to host rent relief pop-up events and to conduct tenant/landlord outreach and education.
An Underutilized Housing Affordability Tool: Homestead Exemptions
CPAL examines homestead exemption access in Dallas County — who’s claiming, who isn’t, and how much money eligible homeowners could realize if they claimed this...
- ~57K residential properties in Dallas County may be eligible for the homestead exemption but have not yet claimed it, for an estimated total benefit of ~$310M.
- ~40K properties in low-income and very low-income census tracts in Dallas County may be eligible for the homestead exemption but have not yet claimed it, for an estimated total benefit of ~$200M, or ~$5,000 per household.
- While an estimated 95% of eligible households in high-income census tracts claim their homestead exemption, only 81% of households in very low-income census tracts claim their homestead exemption.
Dallas Knows More About Evictions Than Ever Before, Just in Time for a New Surge
CPAL’s new eviction filing dashboard is helping Dallas grasp the scale of the housing insecurity problem tenants face.
- CPAL’s dashboard allows a user to segment eviction filing data by city and county, but it can also explore more granular trends, like by ZIP codes, council districts, and school boundaries.
- In January 2022, Dallas landlords filed 2,056 evictions against tenants within the city limits. While these numbers are about half of what was filed in January 2020, this is still the highest point in the pandemic.