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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...

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...

Decreased, decreased. trump administration, hud budget is zeroed out. ed: you would invite ben carson back to answer that. is there another thing you can work on with them? >> absolutely f we think about what is really happening with homelessness in this country, it is about creating affordable housing on a big scale all over america. there is a crisis, new york city, has a particular affordability crisis, but in cities, even suburbs -- ed: what about mental health as well? >> staying here for a...

Lets put it that way. ed: in california, the governor hasnt done enough. he went on to quote from the bible as you suggested moment ago, it is christmas season. ben carson said i want to find a way to come together with gavin newsom in california. can you now, as we head into 2020, is there a way to put aside some of these difference. >> sure. ed: with president trump? give me one or two things that you want to work on in 2020 you think is reasonable to actually fix this. >> yeah. first i want t...

With section 8 housing, shawn and his partner will have an opportunity to get a place of their own. >> we are having a birthday brunch. >> reporter: but its not all fairy tales. years on the street contributed to a powerful drug addiction. rehab is a month and he is facilitating. and along the way they have been documenting the journey. >> make sure i have tissue. >> reporter: shawns goal is to become a powerful voice to combat the homeless crisis and become worthy of his new lease on life. peop...

Job under article 1, section 18, clause 18, section 8 of basically doing the investigation necessary in order to base our decision to impeach a sitting president. ive always said and supported the seven committees that were doing investigations into this presidency. you can call it what you want, impeachment inquiry. i call it investigations. thats what they were doing. thats what i supported and i said that all along and been consistent. as a former prosecutor, i know how important it is to hav...

Dc. democratic michigan congresswoman rashida tlaib says he will find american flag bearing 51 stars outside her capitol hill office. >> to deny the statement of the district of columbia is to deny the impact of slavery in america. >> reporter: republicans oppose making dc estate. at the first hearing on the see statehood in 25 years. congress cannot admit these he is a state legislatively. if you want to change it there is a remedy and it requires amending the constitution of the united states....

Finally make some progress with conservatorship rules, we tried to address the housing crisis doctor ben carson has so fundamentally wrong, it is a market problem, 3 million units of housing short which the feds could help with as opposed to raising the price people on section 8 vouchers have to contribute which is what doctor carson has proposed. we need to be helping these people, federal government can help in a lot of different ways, but to demean and demonize and complain, 50 years of bad p...