Dallas Wrongful Eviction Prevention Program Costs Dallas $100M+
The Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center receives a grant of $1.3M per year to represent indigent tenants in eviction court. This program seems beneficial at face value and makes it sound fair.
But it is doing more harm than good. Much more. It is eroding the property tax revenue and doing financial harm to landlords to the tune of over $118 million.
This nonprofit doesn't resolve the eviction cases they represent. They just delay the procedure by exploiting minor flaws in eviction filings. The property owner just files again after correcting the minor flaw.
The tenants still owe the rent, and every time they win they kick the can down the road and make the tenants debt grow larger and the NOI of the property goes down. In most cases, the tenant still gets evicted and has to move out. It also is overburdensome on the court and leads to inefficiencies that result in huge back logs and poorly administered courts.
When NOI goes down, the property tax value goes down and therefore the property tax revenue is reduced. The impact of this program is huge and needs to be talked about.