Two years ago, the Dallas Morning News editorial board launched a crusade to address the longstanding economic and quality-of-life disparities between the northern and southern halves of the city.
To deepen our understanding of the factors causing this imbalance, we teamed up with researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas' Institute for Urban Policy Research. They conducted surveys and collected massive quantities of data for this effort, which zeroes in on conditions in five selected neighborhoods of southern Dallas.
