The home address listed by a Dallas ISD school board candidate’s application for office is set to be demolished this month, posing questions about her eligibility to run.

The City of Dallas posted that the property belonging to LaKashia Wallace, a Dallas ISD District 9 school board candidate, will be destroyed as it is “unfit for human habitation and a hazard to public safety,” according to KERA News.

Wallace told KERA News that she inherited the house from her grandmother and had lived in it for years, having raised her kids there. The two-story house was built in the 1920s and, according to Wallace, suffered damage to the roof during a 2021 ice storm.

She said she has been busy working with the City to get assistance with repairs as she tries to raise money to fix up the property. Since last year, she has been living with her daughter, who also lives in Dallas ISD District 9.

“I was always told that the goal was to help me get back in my home,” Wallace told KERA, expressing surprise at the demolition order. “And all of a sudden, here’s this order. No more help, no more assistance, just boom.”

Wallace maintains that she is not going anywhere.

“Even if that home is demolished, a new one will come back up at the same address,” she said, per KERA.

Roger Borgelt, an attorney who specializes in civil litigation, told KERA that Wallace “would easily survive a challenge to her residency” requirement for the school board race.

Wallace explained the reasons behind her candidacy in an interview with Voyage Dallas Magazine.

“Because of my own experiences, I struggled to trust Dallas ISD with my children. In their early years, my oldest three children attended St. Philip’s School and Community Center. After a move, we could no longer afford private school, and I realized that sending them to public school would require commitment, dedication, and my full involvement.”

Wallace is running in a crowded field of four candidates to replace outgoing trustee Justin Henry, the current school board president, who announced that he is not seeking re-election, according to KERA. Henry was named a  Bad Apple by The Dallas Express due to the 17 schools in his district earning below 70 out of 100 on their campus student achievement scores for the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency’s accountability reports.

The other candidates are Da’On Boulanger-Chatman, Edward Turner, and Oralia Alonso.

As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Dallas ISD has dragged Dallas County down in the Texas school rankings when compared to other big-city counties. Out of the 129 campuses that had a D rating in Dallas County for the 2021-2022 academic year, 57 were in Dallas ISD.