Solutions for Dallas Homeless

Your input is needed! The 2017 Dallas Bond passed with $20M for Homeless Sheltering and Housing.

Join us for a Bond Public Meeting to learn how bond dollars are proposed to be used to help the homeless.
Hosted by the City of Dallas - City Hall Citizen Homeless Commission (CHC) and Office of Homeless Solutions.

Tuesday, October 23rd from 7-8pm. Walnut Hill Rec Center located at 1011 Midway Rd, Dallas, TX.
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An important message from The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center. Thinking about our homeless friends tonight. If you or someone you know is in distress please call 211 and/or 311. You could be saving a life!


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Two people are dead after spending the night out in the cold in South Dallas.

DART police discovered a woman's body in a wheelchair just before 8:00 Wednesday morning at a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (Official DART page) bus shelter at the intersection of S. Malcolm X Blvd. and Peabody Ave. (near Pennsylvania Ave.).

A few hours later, officers found a man's body under an Interstate 45 overpass near Martin Luther King Blvd., near the former site of "Tent City," a homeless encampment that was shut down last summer.

What can you do if you see someone in the cold? Call 311 and ask for crisis intervention. Give an address, description and ask for a call back. During inclement weather, shelters will accept 24/7 admission.
Dallas Inclement Weather Policy:http://www.mdhadallas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Shelter-Collaborative-Inclement-Weather-Protocols_Final.pdf


h/t Paula Colby
source/ NBC DFW January 17, 2018
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2 Dead in Dallas After Spending Night in the Cold Two people are dead after spending the night out in the cold in South Dallas.

State and local governments rely on nonprofits to deliver most social services, from housing to substance abuse treatment to early childhood education. Now those nonprofits, and their government partners, are concerned that the new tax law passed in December could indirectly slash their funding.

One of the reasons people give to nonprofits is for the tax benefits. But in order to cash in on the incentives for charitable giving, people have to itemize their deductions instead of claiming the standard deduction.

The tax changes certainly make fundraisers' jobs more challenging, says Lee Sherman, president and CEO at the National Human Services Assembly, a national organization representing nonprofits: “When we think about it on the broad scale, across the nation, even taking down a few percentage points of the total giving is a lot of money."


source/ Governing Magazine

Tax Law Could Deliver $13.1 Billion Blow to Charitable Giving Charitable giving is expected to drop, and nonprofits that operate social services for the government will likely take the biggest hit.

Final FY2017 Continuum of Care Project HUD Funding.


source/ Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development