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3/6/24

MCBA Wants to Help Everyone Be a Productive Member of Society
Union Divisiveness Only Pits Employees Versus Employers
We Must Make Homeless People Get the Help They Deserve

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.

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.

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.

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.