With rents rising fast, Texas homeless shelters see more families seeking help

Jade Barron at the Family Gateway shelter in downtown Dallas on Tuesday. Barron and her children moved into the shelter after the rent at their one-bedroom apartment was raised higher than they could afford. (Credit: Hunter Lacey for The Texas Tribune)

DALLAS — Jade Barron doesn’t know how she and her six kids will ever get out of a downtown homeless shelter.

For three years, Barron and her four children had crammed into a one-bedroom apartment in North Dallas — the $850 rent was what Barron could afford as a massage therapist.