Residents in Dallas' Tenth Street Historic District want the city to do more to protect their neighborhood.
Jacob Vaughn
Residents and advocacy groups held a press conference in the Tenth Street Historic District last week to talk about the struggles they face trying to preserve the neighborhood, including demolitions and the recent fires. Johnson is also a member of the Tenth Street Residential Association and a representative on the Tenth Street task force for the landmark commission. He said the neighbors aren’t opposed to new construction. “We just want new, appropriate construction, historically appropriate,” Johnson said. “Ultimately what we’re asking for is a revival of African American history.”
He said Heritage Oak Cliff helped the neighborhood in 2019 by supporting a lawsuit it brought against the city over the 2010 ordinance responsible for a lot of Tenth Street’s destruction. That year, Legal Aid of Northwest Texas and the Tenth Street Residential Association sued Dallas, claiming homes in the neighborhood were being demolished at a disproportionate rate. The neighborhood was given its historic designation in 1993.
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