If the $150 million housing bond passes, it will greatly expand the city’s role in creating and preserving affordable housing, but it’s not entirely unprecedented.
Strategic Housing Implementation Plan
New affordable housing model in Texas takes shape on San Antonio’s East Side
The San Antonio Housing Trust has introduced a new housing model that benefits the public more than developers, it says.
Tax subsidy sometimes used for affordable housing redirected to Broadway attractions north of downtown San Antonio
A financial tool used to help fund affordable housing was recently repurposed for the San Antonio Zoo, the Witte Museum, Garden and Brackenridge Park, a move that has some nonprofit developers scratching their heads.
Rising rents, high occupancies signal ‘Decade of Downtown’ in San Antonio has worked, developers say
The downtown San Antonio apartment market, which city leaders went to such great effort to grow, has matured to a point where it is drawing major attention from out-of-town investors.
San Antonio’s City Council approves 10-year affordable housing plan
The City Council on Thursday approved the Strategic Housing Implementation Plan, a framework document with the overarching goal of helping 95,000 households in San Antonio who spend more than 30% of their monthly income on housing.
Housing bond meeting gets heated as members debate how best to serve San Antonio’s 95K vulnerable households
Calls for spending all $150 million in potential housing bond dollars on San Antonio’s most vulnerable populations permeated the housing bond committee’s second meeting held Wednesday night at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.
San Antonio’s affordable housing discussion continues tonight as city fields criticism on 71-page plan
San Antonio’s citywide discussion on housing, which centers around a 71-page strategy five years in the making, resumes at 6 tonight at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.
Long-awaited housing plan to address 95,000 struggling households in San Antonio
A comprehensive housing strategy is scheduled to be released Monday that will address the needs of 95,000 households in San Antonio that spend more than 30% of their income on housing.
Massive $250M housing bond proposed for election next May
Next May, for the first time, San Antonio voters will be asked to approve a $250 million housing bond toward affordability initiatives.
What is ‘affordable housing’ in San Antonio? City Council to consider adopting this definition
Over the past few months, San Antonio’s Housing Commission has worked to craft a universal definition of “affordable housing.”