The New Braunfels extension of the San Antonio Food Bank is a rare foray into affordable housing — and is unlikely to be replicated locally.
A graphic rendering shows the future Apple Seed Apartments, a housing project in the city of New Braunfels to be managed by the local food bank.The New Braunfels Food Bank’s long planned Apple Seed Apartments are finally coming to fruition, but the housing project is unlikely to expand to San Antonio.
The New Braunfels extension of the San Antonio Food Bank connects the food bank’s most populated counties behind Bexar County: Comal and Guadalupe County. Local nonprofit theor half of renters nationwide But nonprofits, the McKenna Foundation and NB Housing Partners, couldn’t find an organization to take the project on for eight years, including housing nonprofits in San Antonio. The food bank Board of Directors eventually decided to accept its request to take on the project. MB Housing Partners donated two acres for the housing project.
The goal is to make rent more affordable, discounted from market roughly 80% of the area median income or below for working families on the edge and struggling to make ends meet, Cooper said.
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