More than 21 discarded car tires, seven dead dogs, one stolen tractor and unidentifiable animal bones were found on a vacant lot on Brashear Street, just a...
The Mill City Public Safety Initiative received $300K from city of Dallas and Communities Foundations of Texas
which is three months in, has received $300,000 from the city of Dallas and Communities Foundations of Texas, for blight remediation to decrease crime in the neighborhood. The initiative is based on work done in Philadelphia. Lots are chosen if they are in the intersection of vacant lot clusters in the community and high crime areas, which Builders of Hope call “hot zones.” Zeal Analytics reached out to property owners for permission for remediation and free remediation management of the land.
Armstrong said that urban decay remediation is one way to reduce crime with a non-law enforcement public safety solution. “The people, the foot traffic, the cars coming by and just dumping stuff they’re not supposed to, they’re not doing that anymore, which is good because that’s what we need,” Lyons said.
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