Boarding homes in Dallas and Fort Worth are coming under new scrutiny, but city leaders say stopping the abuse their elderly and disabled tenants face may take a more collaborative approach.
In the span of a year, the Fort Worth Police Department reports it received more than 230 calls to a group of 14 boarding homes.
"I think you'd have to be a very cold individual to walk into that room and see how these people are living and think that's OK," said Fort Worth City Council Member Elizabeth Beck. Fort Worth's new ordinance is based on one passed by Houston, and Beck hopes other cities in North Texas can mirror it. "Basically slumlords who are continuing to get away with slaps on the wrist," said council member Carolyn King-Arnold during a committee meeting Tuesday.
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