A plan to revitalize Fort Worth’s Stop Six neighborhood with affordable housing is underway.
Mechell Malone is purchasing a home nearby. She is also a first-time homeowner with the help of First Step Community Empowerment.
“I don’t even want to say “cloud 9”. It’s beyond that. To have your own property and to be a homeowner, it’s just another level of blessing,” Malone said. “I’m still amazed. I’m looking so forward to the day I can just walk in my house.”“I already see the landscape that they’re doing over there. I see them redoing the buildings. I think it’s an amazing idea,” she said. “It shows people that they care. It shows people that they can have a better house or they can the opportunity.
Councilmember Gyna Bivens of District 5 was at the ribbon-cutting Tuesday. She said the home represents a new beginning for not just the family that will move in, but Stop Six as a whole. “At one point in time when I was tracking closely, we saw a 67% increase in new housing construction in Stop Six. I’m sure that number has mellowed out, but the building continues to take place,” Councilmember Bivens said. “Being able to build homes, affordable and non-affordable is important to all of the city so that people who want to be in Stop Six can come to Stop Six.”
Over the next two years, Rev. Datcher said they would like to add about 17 more homes in Stop Six through the initiative.
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