Housing Authority Initiates Nearly $500 Million in Affordable Housing Developments

The San Antonio Housing Authority’s board approved on Thursday future transactions, tax credits, and bond applications that will be part […]

SAHA partnering with Dallas developer on 24-story tower downtown

The San Antonio Housing Authority and a Dallas developer are looking to build a 24-story tower downtown, which would likely […]

Tax Credit Obtained for 88-Unit Alazan Lofts

The San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA) and partner NRP Group received a 9% tax credit from the Texas Department of […]

250 kids receive free school supplies

San Antonio Housing Authority teams up with businesses to help children SAN ANTONIO – Hundreds of families lined up outside a […]

SAHA Gets Tax Credit to Build Mixed-Income Alazán Lofts

The San Antonio Housing Authority can move forward with a new mixed-income housing project in the near West Side after […]

Dallas developer JMJ now wants to build two apartment towers—one with SAHA’s help

It appears the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA) is becoming one of downtown’s chief development players. Through two nonprofit entities […]

Housing Authority awarded $18 million for new housing

SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Housing Authority has been awarded $18 million in tax credits for development on the West […]

La Printería: San Antonio West Side Art Haven For Printmaking, Education

Students from underprivileged backgrounds don’t often get to spread their artistic wings in the classroom. There’s a studio in San […]

Work almost complete on new air conditioning units for 2,400 SAHA tenants

SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Housing Authority is closing in on its pledge to provide free air conditioning units […]

San Antonio To Document Its Digital Divide

San Antonio will study the depths of its digital divide, including the number of people who don’t have access to […]

Low Income Students Receive Free Laptops for Schoolwork

BY SPECTRUM NEWS STAFF SAN ANTONIOPUBLISHED 7:43 AM CT JUN. 23, 2019 SAN ANTONIO – Twenty-five students in San Antonio are bridging […]

Email Print Share San Antonio Awarded National Grant to Craft Displacement Prevention Policy

Grounded Solutions Network staff and local city and community representatives will conduct a needs assessment study, and attempt to identify […]

Castro housing plan: rent credits and up to $46 billion for affordable housing

Julián Castro played to his strong suit Monday as the Democrats’ 2020 contest nears a critical stage, proposing a policy […]

East SA community garden seeing the fruits of hard work

East SA community garden seeing the fruits of hard work  Just a stone’s throw from the Stock Show and Rodeo […]

Julián Castro draws on HUD experience as 2020 candidates pitch affordable housing plans

As housing secretary in the Obama administration, Julián Castro did what no one in thejob before had done – finish […]

SAHA Builds Urban Farm to Combat Hunger on East Side

SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Housing Authority, along with San Antonio College and other local organizations, held a groundbreaking on […]

San Antonio Housing Authority, Partners Break Ground on Eastside Urban Garden

Garcia Street Urban Farm, a 4.1-acre farm designed to bring fresh produce and food education to San Antonio’s East Side, broke ground […]

San Antonio Housing Authority to build urban farm on East Side to combat food shortages

SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Housing Authority is helping to build an urban farm on the East Side to combat […]

Urban farm coming to city’s East Side

4.1-acre plot of land will be largest urban farm in San Antonio SAN ANTONIO – A large portion of the city’s […]

Former San Antonio housing chief talks about her new career, family’s move from Mexico

At first glance, there seems to be a gap between Lourdes Castro Ramirez’s experience in public housing — she’s a […]

Nonprofit, AT&T team up to bring bunk beds to children

Anthony Sierra, a techican for AT&T, said he that while performing home installations he has seen the couches and other […]

Tweet Email Print Share Council Approves $500,000 in Funding for Air Conditioning Project for San Antonio’s Public Housing

City Council on Thursday approved $500,000 in funding to allow the San Antonio Housing Authority to continue installing air conditioning […]

City Council Approves Final Funding to Install Air Conditioning in Public Housing

City Council on Thursday approved the allocation of $500,000 from its general fund to allow the San Antonio Housing Authority […]

East San Antonio gets new affordable homes

SAN ANTONIO — Thursday morning, Dina Tellez came to the corner of Hays and Lockhart with a hammer and a […]

Community Aims To Fight East Side Gentrification With Affordable Housing

As San Antonio’s real estate boom continues, finding affordable housing can be a challenge, especially in neighborhoods on the east […]

$500,000 approved by city to install AC units

SAN ANTONIO — City leaders are making sure people who live in San Antonio Housing Authority apartments, and need air conditioning […]

San Antonio finds another way to fund air conditioning in public housing

After hitting a roadblock, the city of San Antonio found another way to come up with $500,000 to cool hundreds of […]

San Antonio to provide A/C units to 2,500 apartments to beat the heat

Residents in 20 public housing communities in San Antonio will soon have heat relief after City Council approved the use […]

San Antonio Housing Authority bringing new homes to east side neighborhood

This ad will end in 15 A sign of hope, directly across the street from where three people were shot on […]

Craft plan to get AC to public housing

No family should have to endure a sweltering San Antonio summer without the reprieve of air conditioning. Yet thousands of […]

How SAHA is reducing the ‘digital divide’

Digital Ambassador, Natalie Palmer, helps Lisa Martinez sign on as SAHA hosts a ConnectHome training session at the Mission Apartments […]

HUD blocks city’s plan to use $500,000 for air conditioning in public housing

Free air conditioning units will help cool all SAHA tenants by end of June

SAN ANTONIO – Summer is nearly here, and as temperatures rise, so does the discomfort level for area residents who […]

It’s been a blessing’: SAHA begins installing AC in housing without it

Email Print Share Lloyd Doggett Asks HUD to Approve a Plan to Install Air Conditioning in San Antonio’s Public Housing Units

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett has sent a request urging the federal government to approve a San Antonio Housing Authority project to […]

The Compost Queens Put Waste to Work

Coffee chaff, dried banana peels, chicken bones and molding leftovers are finding new life thanks to the mother-daughter duo behind […]

Eco Centro’s Project to Bring Agriculture to a Downtown College Campus Shows How Cities Can Sustainably Feed Their Populations

Our current food system exists on borrowed time. Growth of global food production will need to increase by 25 to […]

Podcast: San Antonio continues work to improve public housing

EN-Depth is weekly interview podcast with journalists from the San Antonio Express-News. EN-Depth is produced by Joy-Marie Scott and Chance Dorland.

President of local affordable housing nonprofit retires

Susan Sheeran, president of San Antonio-based Merced Housing Texas since its founding in 1995, has retired.

SA2020: Community-Driven Solutions For A Widening Housing Gap

One in five homeowners and more than half of renters in San Antonio are burdened by housing costs. What does that […]

National Digital Inclusion Alliance Names Casey Sorensen and Munirih Jester the 2019 Charles Benton Digital Equity Champions

National Digital Inclusion Alliance Names Casey Sorensen and Munirih Jester the 2019 Charles Benton Digital Equity Champions The National Digital Inclusion […]

Presentation of the Fourth Annual Charles Benton Digital Equity Champion Awards

Net Inclusion 2019 April 3, 2019 (PREPARED REMARKS) The city of Charlotte’s namesake, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was Queen of Great […]

2019 Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition Site Visit – San Antonio Housing Authority, San Antonio, Texas

This year’s Innovation in Affordable Housing (IAH) Student Design and Planning Competition generated more interest and visibility than ever before. During the […]

First look: Mixed-use, mixed-income apartments proposed near La Villita (slideshow)

Housing, Workforce Development Focus of Mayor’s Speech to Eastside Business Owners

San Antonians for Growth on the Eastside (SAGE) launched its 2019 series of Eastside Business Briefings at a Monday breakfast […]

City Council approves purchase of air conditioners for SAHA housing units

SAN ANTONIO – Thousands of the city’s poorest families will now be getting air-conditioning thanks to a vote by San […]

Desperately-needed air conditioning coming for some of the city’s oldest housing units

A third of the residents in the affected units are elderly or disables, city officials said.Author: Vanessa CroixPublished: 11:51 PM CDT March […]

Proposed eight-story apartment building near La Villita in downtown San Antonio gets initial city approval

A proposed eight-story apartment complex at La Villita Historic Arts Village downtown gained initial approval from the city Historic Design […]

Eight-story apartment building proposed near La Villita in downtown San Antonio

2,500 families living in public housing could soon have air conditioning in their units

SAN ANTONIO – Approximately 2,500 families living in public housing have been enduring San Antonio summer heat without access to air conditioning, […]