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**MCBA Wants to Help Everyone Be a Productive Member of Society**

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**Union Divisiveness Only Pits Employees Versus Employers**

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**We Must Make Homeless People Get the Help They Deserve**

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**Adopt-a-Block**

MCBA President Louis Darrouzet was in the Dallas Observer this week to
make the case for our new cleanup initiative, Adopt-a-Block
. Please take the time to read his article,
"Adopt-a-Block Wants to Make Dallas Sparkle"
-where
he argues that disorder is contagious, and we must work together to
reverse it so that Dallas can become the most attractive city in
America.

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**February 2024 Downtown Crime Comparison**

MCBA has published new statistics on crime in the DFW Metroplex. Visit
our website to read the latest from
the month of February.

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**Toluwani Osibamowo/KERA**

**Union Divisiveness Only Pits Employees Versus Employers**

Major League Soccer referees picketed outside a Dallas hotel Wednesday
to protest a lockout imposed by their training organization ahead of the
2024 season.

More than a dozen members of the Professional Soccer Referees
Association and supporters gathered outside the Hilton Dallas Lincoln
Centre Hotel, where inside, some Professional Referee Organization staff
led a training for non-union referees to officiate upcoming MLS games.

PSRA, a union representing soccer referees across the United States and
Canada, announced Saturday the union's members rejected a tentative
agreement

with PRO, which employs referees for Major League Soccer and other
professional sports leagues. PRO announced that same day

it would lock out union-member officials from the 2024 season.

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**We Must Make Homeless People Get the Help They Deserve**

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced
that the All Neighbors Coalition
,
a collective of over 140 organizations, including the City of Dallas
Office of Homeless Solutions
,
working in collaboration to solve homelessness in Dallas and Collin
counties, will receive over $27 million in annual funding to continue
and grow funding for essential existing systems services and programs.

This is a 23% increase over 2022 and a 44% increase over 2021,
when Housing Forward
,
the backbone agency supporting the rehousing system, led the redesign of
the approach to tackling homelessness by drawing on evidence-based
strategies. The increase is a reward for the region's united effort to
end homelessness through cross-system partnerships with behavioral
healthcare and housing agencies. The funding is part of HUD's $3.16
billion homelessness assistance funding
 to
communities nationwide through its Continuum of Care program which
expands housing and services projects for families, survivors of
domestic violence, and individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. 

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**Metroplex Civic and Business Association (MCBA)**

** **is a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded to ensure the
continued success and prosperity of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
MCBA helps DFW businesses Educate, Empower, and Mobilize their
workforces through charitable and civic engagement.

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