Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity, once one of the top-producing affiliates in the country, is now struggling in its mission to provide homes for low-income...
For sale signs in front of a home that are part of a residential development by Dallas Habitat for Humanity's Dallas Neighborhood Alliance on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in Mabank. The charity bought 46 lots there in October of 2021, but has built on fewer than half.Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity, once one of the top-producing affiliates in the country, is now struggling in its mission to provide homes for low-income families, ainvestigation found.
Habitat relied on city assurances rather than property records to determine what it owned. For instance, the city told Habitat the nonprofit still owned a lot in West Dallas behind Habitat’s headquarters. Even though publicly available records proved the city had reclaimed it, Habitat took the city at its word and spent $7,000 on a permit to build there. The lot is still vacant.
Habitat mistakenly thought some of the land it bought from the city was zoned for commercial, instead of residential, use. The city agreed and said it would take the lots back; the lots still sit empty.. Sue Ambrose has worked as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News since 1995. A member of the investigative team since 2008, she has reported on hospital safety, mismanagement at state agencies and misspending of public funds. She began her journalism career covering science.
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