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This legislative session, public radio stations across Texas want to answer your wonkiest, weirdest and wildest questions about property taxes in the state. What questions do you have? We want to find the answers for you.
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Newly approved city funding will help lower-income homeowners over 65 years old pay for home repairs that improve accessibility, health and safety, and efficiency.
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A state law passed three decades ago allows a sale to go ahead with just 80% of a condo complex in agreement. Once the deal is final, the remaining objectors have to sell their homes.
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Texas A&M, which currently owns the land downtown, will enter into a ground lease with the city. The city will then develop property on the land alongside a third-party developer, divide it into condominium units, and sublease a portion of those units back to the university until its debts to the city are repaid.
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An Arlington council member will host a town hall Thursday, Jan. 12, to address over two years of complaints about drainage, parking and poor communication at the Paddock on Park Row. The apartment complex is part of a pilot project to address the city’s need for affordable housing.
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High rents take their toll, making affordable housing more and more scarce for domestic violence survivors in North Texas.
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Does it make any sense to live in a dark-colored house in a state like Texas? We ask experts whether these homes are less energy efficient.
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In our series on the arts and the economy, we look at why Artspace, which has developed more than 40 live-and-work properties for artists around the country, might soon bring a project to West Dallas.
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An apartment landlord to Dallas refugees lost a big verdict. Will it affect city’s push for repairs?A Vickery Meadow landlord embroiled in a lawsuit with the City of Dallas has lost a jury trial in a separate case. It may complicate whether repairs happen at his apartments, as the city wants.
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With a state legislative session looming, the Texas Women’s Foundation has identified nearly two dozen policy changes that can help make the lives of women and girls better.
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City-level conversations in Arlington about redevelopment and “missing-middle” housing policies are paused, but not scrapped, after outcry from people worried about how the changes could impact their neighborhoods.
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Tens of thousands of coastal Texas residents have survived repeated extreme weather events including Hurricane Harvey. For many, it has taken an emotional toll, and researchers warn that climate change could be “catastrophic” for our mental health.