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Texas Blackouts Hit Minority Neighborhoods Especially Hard James Dobbins and Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times Feb. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Jorge and Fidel Benitez grill meat outside their home in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, as they have been without power since Sunday evening. Huge winter storms have plunged large parts of the central and southern United States into an energy crisis this week as frigid blasts of Arctic weather crippled electric grids and left millions of America...

Through chattering teeth, Texans criticize extended power outages The strain revealed the vulnerabilities of a distressed system and set off a political fight as lawmakers called for hearings.  By David Montgomery , ...

Editorial: Right call to halt Alazán makeover, but what is next? Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail Children play at the Alazán Courts in September. Preserving units was the right call, but the housing complex desperately needs to be updated. What’s next?Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada In a wise move, although one fraught with uncertainty, the San Antonio Housing Authority, or SAHA, will rebuild and not replace Alazán Courts, the city’s oldest and largest public housing compl...

848 5 minutes read On January 21, advocates for people-centered public housing in San Antonio received incredible news: the San Antonio Housing Authority canceled their contract with mega-developer NRP Group to demolish and redevelop the largest public housing complex in San Antonio, the Alazán Courts. The plan would have displaced over 1,200 low-income residents and boosted the ongoing effort to gentrify San Antonio’s historic Westside. The reversal is a sudden, unexpected victory for or...

Skip to main content We cant do this: How 501 public housing units in San Antonio were suddenly spared destruction FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 Kayla Miranda and fellow advocate Amelia Miranda watch the eviction of a resident Wednesday from Apache Courts, a neighboring complex of Alazán Courts, which SAHA plans to rebuild.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of11 Community advocate Kayla Miranda, 37, talks with her daughter, Nadia, 16, at their Alazan-Apache Courts unit, Wedne...

Online forum to highlight San Antonios historic places of color FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Mario Salas, former member of the San Antonio City Council, used to spend time at the Woolworth Building after its lunch counter became one of the first in the South to be racially integrated without protest or violence. The building could be reused as part of a new Alamo museum, or possibly demolished.Carlos Javier Sanchez /ContributorShow MoreShow Less 2of3 The recently discovered historic foundations of...

The fight over San Antonios Alazan-Apache Courts shows different visions for the West Side Posted By Gus Bova, The Texas Observer on Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 10:34 AM click to enlarge Ben Olivo / SA Heron Alazán Courts resident Jacquline Caldwell speaks at a protest in front of SAHA ...

1 of 4  — West Side community activists gather outside the property at 1312 Guadalupe, referred by many activists as ‘Casa Maldonado,’ protesting its demolition. | Credit: The Esperanza Peace & Justice Center 2 of 4  — Community members attend the 2002 demolition of La Gloria, an iconic San Antonio West Side dance hall. | Credit: Esperanza Peace & Justice Center 3 of 4  — The Malt House was demolished in May...

Watch Live: San Antonio virtual MLK March will feel like the real thing FacebookTwitterEmail Since he was in elementary school, Ya’Ke Smith has marched with thousands of fellow San Antonians every January to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Now because of the pandemic, the 40-year-old filmmaker is taking that experience and its message off the streets and onto televisions and touchscreens. His 90-minute film “Dream: Rising Up for Justice” will serve as the virtual v...

San Antonio’s oldest and largest public housing development is fueling a conflict between entities with different visions for the West Side.