San Antonio is considering taking a page out of Austin’s policy book to increase affordable housing across the city.
Progressive elected officials, teacher and transit unions and housing advocates gathered on the steps of San Antonio’s City Hall Wednesday to support two policies aimed at increasing and expediting affordable housing opportunities in the city.
Councilwoman Terri Castillo has filed multiple Council Consideration Requests for housing affordability policies as outlined during a press conference she hosted on Wednesday. Castillo and others want that focus aimed at “deeply” affordable housing — meaning housing that people who earn far less than they need to cover the basics. In Bexar County, according to the nonprofit ALICE, a”survival budget” for an individual is $29,520 for an individual .
Esperanza started a community land trust initiative in 2021, which maintains several affordable West Side casitas,“For us, the community land trust is not about any profit, it’s just to continue to find more housing,” she told the San Antonio Report after standing behind the elected officials during the press conference.
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