Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Dennia Antonio Chiessa
As the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW), the 4th largest and fastest growing metropolitan area in the country 1, continues to grow, its cities compete to attract development and trans¬plants from other states. Hispanic/Latinx population growth accounts for the majority of this in apparent continuity of a phenomenon identified by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz in his book, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City, which argues that growth in Dallas “was so dependent on Hispanic immigrants and their children that without them, Big D would have stagnated or shrunk beginning around 1970.”2 In recent years DFW has been able to sustain a vibrant economy with low unemployment rates, higher median household and family income and lower poverty rates compared to Texas and the U.S.3 This growth, however, is putting a strain on housing that is affordable and within the urban centers of Dallas and Fort Worth and has created a new phenomenon and oppor¬tunities which led to this project.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.16
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978-1-944214-37-1
