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Top Stories: West Dallas Community Speaks Out; Southern Dallas Is Growing Fast

JESSICA DIAZ-HURTADO / KERA NEWS
A sign on display at a home in West Dallas Monday morning. Officials announced plans to offer to sell about 75 rental homes to tenants.

The top local stories this evening from KERA News:

West Dallas residents worried about the future of their small, weathered rent homes took their concerns to the Dallas City Council Wednesday. Everything changed Monday, when landlord HMK Limited offered to sell some of the homes to tenants. A judge also pushed the move-out deadline to October.

We’ve been following these families as part of KERA’s series One Crisis Away: No Place To Go. Courtney Collins looks at where they’ve gone.

 
Other stories this evening:

  • Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings says progress is being made in southern Dallas. He credits his GrowSouth initiative in helping stimulate investment and development in communities south of Interstate-30 and the Trinity River. Still, as KERA’s Stephanie Kuo reports, the area faces many challenges.

 You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM. 

Gus Contreras is a digital producer and reporter at KERA News. Gus produces the local All Things Considered segment and reports on a variety of topics from, sports to immigration. He was an intern and production assistant for All Things Considered in Washington D.C.