Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Some residents of West Dallas say they will lose their homes as the result of the city’s crackdown on the condition of rental property.
Dallas and HMK Homes reached a deal in November where the company would shut down rentals in June of this year but let tenants stay in place until June of 2017.
“We didn’t ask to be homeless,” Pearlie Ann Harper said outside Dallas City Hall. “They’re kicking us out.”
Demonstrators say many of the residents of HMK’s properties are elderly or handicapped. They say they could not afford more expensive apartments or houses.
“What we’re looking for is houses that are four or five hundred dollars a month,” Harper says. “That’s what is affordable to them.”
Harper says she and her mother have lived in the neighborhood for decades. HMK Homes plans to evict 305 people.
Last year, Mayor Mike Rawlings put out a statement saying Dallas’ work with HMK was only about providing safe and decent living conditions.
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