DALLAS NEIGHBORHOOD
ANTI-DISPLACEMENT TOOLKIT

The Dallas Anti-Displacement Toolkit aims to create lasting and impactful policy change within the City of Dallas that ensures:

  • Vulnerable residents in historically marginalized communities have the right to stay and the opportunity to return to their neighborhoods in the face of rapid development and rising housing costs;

  • Over time, opportunities remain for new low-income residents to move into the community; and

  • All residents, but especially those most vulnerable to displacement, have a meaningful role in shaping the future of their neighborhoods.

PROJECT BACKGROUND

  • Builders of Hope CDC is creating a city-wide Anti-Displacement Toolkit to address the specific needs of Dallas neighborhoods experiencing gentrification and displacement. 

  • Builders of Hope CDC is leading the effort in partnership with policy experts, data professionals and community stakeholders across the city 

  • The initiative is being carried out in collaboration with the City of Dallas with the joint intention of incorporating the Toolkit into the 2023 Dallas Housing Plan

  • Work is privately funded by generous grants from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and The Dallas Foundation.

PROJECT OVERVIEW & SCOPE 

This projects exists to provide the following:

  • A roadmap for policymakers and diverse stakeholders to better understand and to effectively combat residential displacement in Dallas neighborhoods experiencing gentrification.

  • A toolkit with specific, data-informed recommendations for both placed-based/neighborhood level and city-wide strategies for preventing residential displacement.

  • Methodology for identifying historically marginalized neighborhoods where vulnerable residents face varying degrees of displacement risk in order to appropriately target placed-based recommendations. 

  • An education and advocacy tool to build community capacity in gentrifying neighborhoods and empower residents to actively engage in local development and decision-making processes.

Project Partners

Data Partners:

  • Dallas College Labor Market Intelligence Center (LMIC)

  • Camille Gilchriest and Tana Hicks

Policy Advisors:

  • Heather Way

  • Dr. Cullum Clark

Community Engagement Partners:

  • CoSpero Consulting

  • Harold Hogue and Lauren Coppedge

What are other cities doing?

Austin

  • Strategic Housing Blueprint (2017) and Blueprint Implementation Plan (2019)

  • $300 million for Anti-Displacement Fund passed in 2020

  • Program Highlight: Short-term 1-2 year Displacement Mitigation Strategy that prioritizes recommendations based on impact and effort/resources required

San Antonio

  • Housing Policy Framework (2018) and Strategic Housing Implementation Plan (2021)

  • $150 million Affordable Housing Bond passed in 2022

  • Program Highlight: Displacement Impact Assessment for all new construction projects seeking Housing Bond funds

Project Outline

Project Timeline

DEFINING GENTRIFICATION

Types of Displacement

Research Methodology &

Case Study Selections

Neighborhood Mapping

  • Measuring neighborhood change at the macro-level 

  • Using census data to assess: the presence of vulnerable populations, residential market appreciation, and demographic change over time

  • Categorizing neighborhoods based on vulnerability/displacement risk and stage of gentrification

Case Study

  • Deep-dive look into the relevant socioeconomic and housing market conditions affecting vulnerable residents within a specific neighborhood

  • Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data to tell stories of neighborhood history and change over time and amplify the voices of historic and legacy residents

We’ve Been Quiet Because We’ve Been Listening.

Over the last two years, Builders of Hope Community Development Corporation has worked with support from JPMorgan Chase Foundation and The Dallas Foundation to develop an anti-displacement toolkit to inform housing policy for the city of Dallas.

We've hosted city-wide open houses, numerous neighborhood listening sessions, knocked on over 1,000 doors and surveyed more than 400 Dallas residents impacted by rising housing costs and neighborhood change across the city.

We've also spent countless hours gathering and analyzing data in order to make specific, data-informed policy recommendations.

The Dallas anti-displacement toolkit will launch late this summer, and based on what we have heard and seen, action can’t come soon enough.