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Alazan-Apache Courts

Opportunity Home San Antonio seeks $8M from housing bond for Alazan-Apache Courts expansion

October 14, 2022 By Ben Olivo Leave a Comment

Drone shot taken July 30, 2021, shows the Alazan Courts in the foreground and the downtown San Antonio skyline in the background.

Opportunity Home San Antonio has applied for $8 million from San Antonio’s housing bond for a new public housing development at Alazan-Apache Courts.

Filed Under: 2022-2027 bond, Alazan-Apache Courts, Architecture, Development, Development Explorer, Historic Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods, Opportunity Home San Antonio, West Side Tagged With: Able City, Alamo Architects, Alaza-Apache Courts, Alazan Courts, Apache Courts, City Council, Economic & Planning Systems, Ed Hinojosa Jr., FEMA, Guadalupe Street, Historic Westside Residents Association, Jannet Garcia, Kayla Miranda, Legacy at Alazán, Leticia Sanchez, Opportunity Home San Antonio, San Antonio Housing Authority, Seema Kairam, Victoria Courts, Wheatley Courts

Public invited to Alazan Courts design workshop

June 24, 2022 By Ben Olivo Leave a Comment

Drone shot taken July 30, 2021, shows the Alazan Courts in the foreground and the downtown San Antonio skyline in the background.

The San Antonio Housing Authority is hosting a design workshop for the Alazan Courts redevelopment on the near West Side, San Antonio’s oldest public housing community that could be demolished and rebuilt, or refurnished.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Development, Historic Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods, San Antonio Housing Authority, West Side Tagged With: Able City, Alamo Architects, Alazan Courts, Clinton administration, East Meadows, Economic & Planning Systems, Ed Hinojosa Jr., Gardens at San Juan Square, Henry Cisneros, HUD, Lori Houston, Michael Reyes, Obama administration, San Antonio Housing Authority, San Juan Homes, San Juan Square, Victoria Commons, Victoria Courts, West Side, Wheatley Courts

Alazan Courts on West Side could get $75M for redevelopment—if San Antonio voters approve

October 11, 2021 By Ben Olivo 1 Comment

Drone shot taken July 30, 2021, shows the Alazan Courts in the foreground and the downtown San Antonio skyline in the background.

The San Antonio Housing Authority is requesting $75 million for the Alazan Courts from the upcoming 2022-2027 bond program, which San Antonio voters will be asked to approve in May.

Filed Under: 2022-2027 bond, Alazan-Apache Courts, City of San Antonio, Development, Historic Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods, San Antonio Housing Authority, West Side Tagged With: Able City, Alazan Courts, City Council, David Nisivoccia, Ed Hinojosa Jr., Erik Walsh, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, Graciela Sanchez, President Biden, President Clinton, President Obama, Ron Nirenberg, SAHA, Saldaña & Associates, San Antonio Housing Authority, Westside Preservation Alliance

Hinojosa Jr. named president and CEO of San Antonio Housing Authority

July 15, 2021 By Ben Olivo 5 Comments

Late Wednesday, the San Antonio Housing Authority board of commissioners voted Ed Hinojosa Jr., a 17-year veteran of the agency, as president and CEO following a national search.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Development, Housing, Neighborhoods, San Antonio Housing Authority Tagged With: Alazán-Apache Courts, Andrew Cuomo, Cassiano Homes, Choice Neighborhood, David Nisivoccia, East Meadows, Ed Hinojosa Jr., Hemisfair, HUD, Lincoln Courts, President Biden, President Clinton, President Obama, SAHA, San Antonio Housing Authority, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Victoria Courts, Wheatley Courts

New plan for Alazan Courts: SAHA intends to keep all residents on site after ‘self-developing’ the property

January 21, 2021 By Ben Olivo 11 Comments

The San Antonio Housing Authority will recommend to its board of commissioners today that SAHA “self-develop” the courts with the intent of keeping its roughly 1,200 low-income residents in the public housing property.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Housing, San Antonio Housing Authority Tagged With: Alazan Courts, David Nisivoccia, Ed Hinojosa Jr., San Antonio Housing Authority

Housing activists take their protest to San Antonio Housing Authority CEO’s home

November 22, 2020 By Ben Olivo 10 Comments

Housing advocates take their anti-SAHA protest to Flores Street on the way to the condo of CEO David Nisivoccia on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020.

Roughly 80 housing activists on Saturday gathered on South Flores to protest the San Antonio Housing Authority’s plan to demolish Alazán Courts, among a slew of other grievances.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Housing, San Antonio Housing Authority, West Side

How to relocate Alazan Courts’ 1,200 residents? San Antonio Housing Authority says it’s complicated, critics say you don’t

October 14, 2020 By Ben Olivo 13 Comments

The Alazan Courts. Photo by Ben Olivo taken October 2019

“Some of them ended up … in a lot of really bad places,” one SAHA commissioner said of East Side residents uprooted the last time the agency redeveloped public housing.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Housing, San Antonio Housing Authority, West Side Tagged With: affordable housing, Alazan Courts, Alazán-Apache Courts, Apache Courts, Cassiano Courts, Choice program, Department of Housing and Urban Development, development, East Meadows, Haven for Hope, Henry Cisneros, HUD, Lincoln Courts, Los Courts, Lynd Copany, Munoz and Company, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Obama, poverty, real estate, relocation, SAHA, San Antonio Housing Authority, San Antonio public housing, West Side

Alazan-Apache Courts named one of America’s most endangered historic places

September 24, 2020 By Ben Olivo 22 Comments

The San Antonio Housing Authority plans to demolish 501 public housing units, over multiple years, and replace them with a new mixed-income development.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Historic Preservation, Housing, West Side

SAHA’s eviction policy under review after pressure from residents, groups

November 21, 2019 By Ben Olivo 4 Comments

David Nisivoccia, SAHA’s CEO and president, addresses the Housing Commission on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, at San Antonio College. Photo by Ben Olivo | Heron

In response to criticism over its eviction policy, SAHA said it will suspend noncriminal evictions until Dec. 31.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Housing, San Antonio Housing Authority, West Side

‘It’s like prison.’ Some Alazan-Apache Courts residents accuse SAHA of pushing them toward eviction

November 17, 2019 By Ben Olivo 11 Comments

Kayla Miranda talks about her rent and fees at Alazan-Apache apartments Monday, Oct. 21 in her living room. Photo by V. Finster | Heron Contributor

Several residents at Alazan-Apache Courts accuse the San Antonio Housing Authority of harassment by way of, what they describe as, bogus lease violations—which lead to evictions. SAHA paints a different picture.

Filed Under: Alazan-Apache Courts, Evictions, Housing, San Antonio Housing Authority

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