Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity has sold only an average of 33 homes over the last five years. That's down from nearly 100 per year over the previous eight...
A Dallas Habitat for Humanity's Dallas Neighborhood Alliance sign stands on empty lots that are part of the organization’s residential development photographed on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in Mabank. The charity bought 46 lots there in Oct of '21, but has built on fewer than half.was among the most prolific homebuilders in the city.
The city of Dallas, at times, provided inconsistent and even inaccurate information to Habitat employees that extended the nonprofit’s delays in building affordable homes. Habitat relied on the city’s information, instead of the public documents that contained the correct information.The city needs developers such as Habitat to provide affordable housing, said Linda McMahon, president and CEO of The Real Estate Council, a commercial real estate advocacy group.
At Golden’s direction, Lutz said she arranged the sale of more than 50 lots in the Mill City neighborhood just southeast of Fair Park and 4 acres in West Dallas. Under Golden, Habitat applied for building permits in early 2018 on those nine lots and began construction. That spring, Habitat announced it had selected its new permanent CEO, former home warranty executive Dave Crawford.Under Crawford, the nonprofit didn’t apply for additional permits in Chariot Village, city records show.
One example was Habitat’s effort to sell a tract of land, originally bought from the city, for 200 times what the nonprofit had paid for it. Putting the land on the market violated the city’s deed restrictions.More than an acre large — and about a half-mile from Habitat’s headquarters — the property was meant to hold eight homes.
The confusion Habitat had over deadlines was not exclusive to Dallas. In July 2021, Habitat lost two lots in Balch Springs, whenAmid all of the missed deadlines and confusion over whether properties would be taken back by the cities that sold them, Habitat did continue to build homes, albeit at a much lesser rate than in its heyday.
Two months before his planned retirement in September 2022, Crawford was still trying to restore the nonprofit’s ability to buy land from the city of Dallas, saying he wanted to give some lots back while asking for extensions on others. Habitat also purchased 7 acres in Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas, enough to hold more than two dozen homes.
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