A good-sized segment of the Dallas apartment market is run by the Dallas Housing Authority. DHA helps provide quality housing to low-income families and individuals. It combines this approach with programs to help people gain self-sufficiency. Without this assistance, some 60,000 residents of Dallas would be facing homelessness. DHA offers public-housing vouchers for nearly 12,000 units, and outright owns another 3900 units, although there is currently a freeze on new applications.
FINDING FUTURES
As those in need of assistance develop the skills to achieve economic independence, they will find themselves getting out of public housing, and are fortunate to live in an area in which so many affordable options will await them. Dallas apartments rent for as little as $400 a month in some areas, with utilities often included. That’s just the baseline, though, as a good many “Class B” apartments are available due to the vacancy rate of high-end units in North Dallas and downtown.
CLIMBING THE LADDER
Few other U.S. cities offer the kind of social mobility that the Dallas apartment rental market affords to people. It allows residents to provide a better life for themselves and their families. This fosters an overall improvement in the city, reducing the strain on social services and charities who do so much for those in need. In a day and age when so many people are feeling “priced out” of the rental market, Dallas apartments keep us “priced in”. Some people have to leave their communities to find a better life. Dallas is where many of them end up doing just that.