Housing and Homelessness Solutions CommitteeTuesday, March 31, 2026 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers, City Hall

Context: The March 31 briefing proposed amendments to the DPFC program statement that governs Chapter 303 exemption eligibility, with no adoption date set yet.

Recommended: If a client's deal relies on the Dallas Public Facility Corporation's property tax exemption under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 303, create a dated written record now of exactly which catalog terms the deal was structured around. Without that record, contesting retroactive application of revised eligibility or affordability requirements gets much harder once the catalog is adopted.

Context: The Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee received the only briefing on rewritten DHFC, DPFC, and HTC program statements on 2026-03-31, and no vote has followed since.

Recommended: Pull the March 31 committee briefing materials and check whether any deal in your pipeline is underwritten on current Housing Tax Credit Program, Dallas Housing Finance Corporation, or Dallas Public Facility Corporation terms — those terms may not survive the revised catalog. No vote has been scheduled in the three months since the briefing, so a change could land on the agenda with little notice.

Context: The March 31 agenda bundled amendments to three separate program statements — HTC, DHFC, and DPFC — into a single item with no stated rationale on the public record.

Recommended: File a public records request for the staff briefing document from the March 31 committee meeting, then ask housing staff what project or transaction prompted simultaneous rewrites to the Housing Tax Credit Program, Dallas Housing Finance Corporation, and Dallas Public Facility Corporation statements. If one deal is shaping catalog language across all three programs, that's a story about who controls Dallas housing finance policy.

Context: The catalog amendments have remained in committee with no vote scheduled since the March 31 briefing, leaving the drafting window still open.

Recommended: Request meetings now with Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee members to shape draft language for the Housing Tax Credit Program, Dallas Housing Finance Corporation, and Dallas Public Facility Corporation statements before a vote appears on the agenda. Once scheduled, staff language typically becomes the floor and the window for revision closes.