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04/25/2025

04/19/2025

Houston's population growth reached a record high in 2024, with nearly 200,000 new residents joining the area.

This is the largest population increase on record, bringing the total metro population to 7.8 million!

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04/10/2025

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03/02/2025

These days, in the small windows of time she finds between work, workouts and guiding her two daughters into adulthood, La’Nitra Smith preoccupies herself with small projects around her new home.

“I like decorating, making everything my own,” she said, sitting on a couch in her living room. The space was snug and sunlit. Mocha, the family’s large yet cheerful dog, sat in a crate a few feet away, shifting between tail-wagging and short naps.

Smith’s stepfather, eager and handy despite his 80 years, was coming over later that day to install a security camera. He’d already helped her pitch fence poles across the backyard and install a gate in the driveway.

“He just needs something to do,” Smith laughed.

Smith, 42, purchased the home in June with the help of Trinity Habitat for Humanity, an affordable housing nonprofit. She was still adjusting to the mundane obligations of homeownership; she was also savoring a sudden, unfamiliar steadiness.

“I’ve been sleeping comfortably,” she said. “I haven’t been stressed out about a bill or anything. I just go and pay it — still have money left over.”

She’d pursued that stability all her adult life. The past decade or so was especially trying. She became a single mother, working constantly, spending sparingly and still saving rarely in the years that followed, she remembers.

Homeownership has long been upheld in the American psyche as an essential and attainable aspiration for the responsible, hardworking and family-oriented.

The possibility of homeownership, and the transformative benefits it promises, have floated further and further out of reach of the average American family in recent decades. The prices of homes have soared; the opportunities to build the wealth needed to afford one haven’t expanded in kind.

Dallas-Fort Worth had long been an island of relative affordability as waves of high living costs swept across other American cities. But the Metroplex is quickly succumbing to the tides.

La’Nitra managed to defy the city’s growing home affordability crisis. Does her story offer a solution others can follow, or only an exception that others in similar circumstances can only hope to replicate?

Read the full story from growth reporter Jaime Moore-Carrillo → https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article299233314.html

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03/02/2025

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03/01/2025

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03/01/2025

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02/21/2025

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02/15/2025

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