A big international developer joined forces with Dallas non-profit groups to break ground Monday on an affordable workforce housing project.
‘Mill City 50’ is named for the number of units and the location in the South Dallas Mill City neighborhood.The project helps tackle an estimated need for 33,000 affordable Dallas housing units for low and middle-income workers in a city where it is increasingly expensive to live.
“This matters to the existing neighborhood. It matters to the people who are going to move in here. It matters to the city long term. If we can demonstrate you can come into an area and lift it up without hurting the existing people in the community, if you can do that, the world is a better place. That’s what we’re trying to do here. It’s a big lift,” Matthews said.
“We need to do what we can to ensure that we provide affordable housing because the absence of that is what leads to homelessness,” Ragsdale said. “The whole idea is to bring families back to this community,” he said. “When you bring people back, they will patronize businesses and will create the thriving community that this once was.”
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