Tag Archives: Dallas (Tex)

Local Officials Brace for Loss of Disaster Preparedness Funding

Local Officials Brace for Loss of Disaster Preparedness Funding

St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. A fire shut down a new nursing home last month in Enterprise, Ala., forcing residents to evacuate. Cleveland grappled with a power outage while inundated with visitors for the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball Final Four. In each case, local health officials played a key role in containing the …

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Would the Housing Crisis Ease if Boomers Rented Out Their Empty Rooms?

Would the Housing Crisis Ease if Boomers Rented Out Their Empty Rooms?

Monte Anderson opened a broom closet in his kitchen and pointed to a door handle near a mop and a trash can. Somewhere on the other side lay one small solution to America’s affordable housing crisis. Mr. Anderson is a developer who rehabs commercial and residential buildings in and around Dallas, including the ranch-style house where he lives, for now, …

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