Despite Democrats and self-identified liberals having a lock on local government in the area, Dallas County residents on the left end of the political spectrum do not seem especially satisfied with the state of the city.
In a recent poll by The Dallas Express, people who identify as far-left- and center-left leaning were asked whether they agreed with the statement: Dallas City Council is doing enough to keep Dallas clean.
A hefty plurality of 44.45% of respondents registered in the negative, with 27.78% saying they strongly disagreed and 16.67% saying they disagreed.
Some 22.22% said they agreed with the statement, and just under 17% said they strongly agreed.
About 17% of respondents surveyed said they were unsure or neutral on the issue.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Dallas made its way onto a list of the dirtiest cities in the United States in January of this year, ranking 32nd out of 200 of the country’s biggest cities.
Issues ranging from the mismanagement of garbage services to the city’s homelessness and vagrancy crisis have contributed to a seemingly growing sense of uncleanliness around Dallas.
Speaking to the issue of homelessness and vagrancy earlier this year, Mayor Eric Johnson described what many people see within the city limits:
“We … have residents of this city who are … trying to get by and do right by their families and their communities who want to go to work every day and come home. Unfortunately, they see growing numbers of encampments in their neighborhoods.”
“They see people passed out on the sidewalks. They see people walking naked on the streets. They see trash. They see waste. They see tents pitched on our freeway underpasses. They want and they expect to live in a city that does not tolerate, and certainly does not facilitate, disorder.”
More recently, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex plummeted in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Best Places to Live in the U.S. ranking, falling from its place last year at No.32 out of 150 to No.113, likely due, in at least some small part, to the cleanliness situation in Dallas proper.