In the News

Some media articles and televised shows with cases brought by Daniel & Beshara are set out below.

“’You’re only crippling us’: Banks own may of Dallas’ low-income, high-crime apartments – and they’re rewarded for it.” Banking Below 30, WFAA Investigation by David Schechter, Jason Trahan, Chance Horner, February 28, 2021. In this investigative series, WFAA journalists reveal the bank ownership of Low-Income Housing Tax credits in areas of crime and blight but where banks make very few home loans. The televised story is located here: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/investigates/banking-below-30-banks-own-dallas-low-income-high-crime-housing-incentives/287-e49aa69d-9bd1-4072-aaa8-c50f47ac0af2

“Moving on Up: A Project to Place Public Housing Tenants in Better Neighborhoods Gets a Boost” by Lucas Mansfield, Dallas Observer, January 14, 2020. This article features the Walker v. HUD, DHA public housing desegregation case and 2019 settlement with DHA leads to addition funding for housing mobility.

“Unsafe to Stay, Unable to Go: Government Homes in Flood Plains,” by Sarah Mervosh, The New York Times, April 12, 2019. The article discusses HUD assisted housing located in the flood plain and examines the lawsuit by Houston tenants still living in an apartment complex in Houston that flooded and made the first floor uninhabitable.

 “Poverty, Politics and Profit,” by Laura Sullivan NPR, Frontline investigation television show, May 9, 2017, located at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/poverty-politics-and-profit/ and Transcript is here. - Frontline and NPR investigated the Low- Income Housing Tax Credit program with Dallas as a focus in this television show and related articles.

“Justices Back Broad Interpretation of Housing Law” by Adam Liptak, The New York Times, June 25, 2015. The article announces the Supreme Court endorsement of disparate impact in Daniel & Beshara’s lawsuit on behalf of the Inclusive Communities Project, Inc.

“The Supreme Court Keeps the Fair Housing Law Effective” by the Editorial Board of The New York Times, June 25, 2015

“Dallas Housing Lawyers Win Big at SCOTUS, City Takes a Hit.” By Jim Schutze, Dallas Observer, June 26, 2015.

“Banking on the Poor: A Dallas nonprofit’s legal battles could change affordable housing programs nationwide.” By Gayle Reaves, Fort Worth Weekly, March 4-10, 2015.  – This article discusses the role of the U.S. Treasury and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the segregation of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.