Forward Dallas Housing Element

HOUSING ELEMENT

GOAL 3.1 ENSURE A SUSTAINABLE AND EFFICIENT LONG-RANGE HOUSING SUPPLY

A goal of the forwardDallas! Vision is to add about 220,000 households

between the year 2000 and the year 2030. Like other large cities,

Dallas will not attract every type of household equally, but will

attract more of specific kinds, such as single-person households,

those at the high and low end of the income scale and households

headed by a foreign-born adult. Dallas will attract proportionately

fewer families with children.The City must understand its target

market and not try to design itself as a large suburb. Rather it

should capitalize on its strengths in the housing market.

Before 2030, Dallas is expected to have utilized all of its

developable vacant land. When this happens, Dallas will add few

of what has been the dominant segment of the owner-occupied

housing market, the single-family home. Dallas needs to develop

its skills at encouraging alternative homeownership products that

fit the small site, infill and urban redevelopment markets that

make up its future. Although this goal represents a change for

Dallas, it will not be achieved at the expense of existing residential

neighborhoods.

Policy 3.1.1 Monitor housing growth targets.

Policy 3.1.2 Encourage alternatives to single-family housing developments for homeownership.

It’s important to encourage residential developments that provide

for homeownership while focusing on projects other than

traditional single-family homes. New developments should be

encouraged to include smaller lot single-family homes, attached

single-family townhouses, and condominiums designed for owneroccupancy, with attention to quality and appropriate location.The objective is to achieve the following citywide targets for adding a

variety of owner-occupied housing types between the Years 2000 and 2030:

• 34,000 homes on average lot sizes larger than 5,000

square feet

• 23,000 homes on average lot sizes of 5,000 square

feet or less

• 55,000 fee simple single-family attached (townhouse)

homes

• 31,000 condominium units

Policy 3.1.3 Encourage stabilization of existing neighborhoods.

GOAL 3.2 ANSWER THE NEED FOR HOUSING OPTIONS

Policy 3.2.1 Attract more middle and higher-income

households to the Southern Sector. Build upon the

existing stable foundation of middle-class housing stock

in the Southern Sector by attracting additional such

development. The natural topography of the Southern

Sector is the most beautiful in the city and therefore

provides a highly desirable location for such development.

Policy 3.2.2 Encourage higher density housing within a quarter-mile of DART stations.

Policy 3.2.3 Leverage public and private sector investments.

GOAL 3.3 EXPAND AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALTERNATIVES

Policy 3.3.1 Gear homeownership programs to meet projected affordable housing needs.

Policy 3.3.2 Encourage distribution of affordable housing throughout the City and the region.

Policy 3.3.3 Obtain support to develop affordable housing.