How a City Killed a Housing Law Without Breaking It

In Grand Prairie, Texas, you can turn a dead strip mall into apartments. State law says so. The city has a condition: first build an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Since that law took effect, Dallas has new projects. Fort Worth has new projects. Arlington, Plano, and McKinney are moving. Grand Prairie has built zero units. Not one. That is not an accident. It is the point. What this actually costs…