The Dallas Housing Authority, Housing Solutions for North Texas has been awarded a Commitment to Enter into a Housing Assistance Payments Contract for the Roseland Estates and Roseland Townhomes, two affordable communities in Dallas totaling 274 units.
The commitment was awarded under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Rental Assistance Demonstration program, known as RAD. The program is designed to raise capital for public housing communities in order to support their long-term affordability. This is the city’s first conversion under the program.
The announcement took place a month after the owners secured $69 million in bond reservations from the Texas Bond Review Board to renovate both communities. They plan to improve the properties’ infrastructure, security systems and amenities.
While this is the first time Dallas has been included in RAD, other public housing authorities such as the Housing Authority of the City of Austin, El Paso and Fort Worth Housing Solutions have previously entered this preservation model. That number is expected to only go up. According to the Child Poverty Action Lab, in 2024, the city of Dallas had a gap of 39,919 rental units for households earning at or below 50 percent of the Area Median Income. This figure was up from its spring 2023 report, which reported a shortage of 33,660 units.
How rad is RAD?
The Rental Assistance Demonstration program was put in place by HUD to allow affordable communities to provide rental assistance to public housing authorities, property owners and investors. This is done by converting communities into project-based voucher units, making them fall under the Section 8 rental assistance program.
READ ALSO: 3 Effective Strategies for Preserving Housing Affordability
RAD also allows member properties to have access to financing tools for repairs fundable by Low Income Housing Tax Credits, in addition to other sources. Through RAD, public housing authorities have secured over $11.7 billion for construction improvements across 1,380 properties. Every year, HUD reevaluates the program to make it flexible to emerging issues in housing affordability.
Through a 20-year housing assistance payment contract, RAD will allow residents at the Roseland communities to pay rents amounting to 30 percent of their income. This program will also support the redevelopment efforts initiated in last month’s bond reservation.
Overall construction and investments still high
While there is still a significant shortage of affordable units in Dallas, the metro is one of the top areas for multifamily construction, according to Yardi Matrix data. According to a Matrix report from July 2025, the city has 53,496 units under construction, with 9,386 units delivered as of May.
The property includes 354 market-rate apartments and the community came online in 2015. Still to come for the area is The NRP Group’s Meryl Street, a 340-unit mixed-income community in Anna, about 45 miles outside of downtown Dallas. When completed next year, half of the community’s units will be affordable with 40 percent of units designated for households earning 80 percent or less of the AMI and 10 percent for those earning 60 percent of the AMI.
The post Dallas Housing Authority Launches HUD Affordability Program appeared first on Multi-Housing News.
Gillian Executive Search is a leader in Affordable Housing Development, Financing, Design and Construction recruiting. www.gessearch.com