Dallas City Hall’s $1 million lottery | Opinion
This program is hard to understand on any level. How will it serve racial equity if race isn’t a qualifying restriction in the application ? How will it fight gentrification by increasing someone’s home purchase budget by $50,000? How will it avoid displacing people if they already live in Dallas? Why should the city pay people who left to move back?
The Dallas City Council was notably incurious about these questions. It approved this program with nary a word. That’s too bad because handing out huge sums of money to a few people is so obviously the wrong way to spend tax dollars. It’s not even valid to call this a social experiment. The number of people affected will have zero impact on the broader economic health of the city.
If this is the best City Hall can do with $1 million, it’s surely time to give City Hall less to spend.
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