Garcia: West Side council candidates laud plan to keep Alazán Courts families united
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Children play at the Alazán Courts on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. Much of Alazán Courts, the first public housing complex in San Antonio, was built in 1939 and people, mostly Mexican-Americans, began to move in during 1940.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada
Candidates started filing for San Antonio City Council elections on Jan. 13.
A week later, some big news rocked District 5, which has 11 candidates competing for the seat being vacated by a term-limited Shirley Gonzales.
The San Antonio Housing Authority abandoned its plan to partner with a private developer to raze the West Side’s historic Alazán Courts and replace them with mixed-income apartments.
San Antonio Doubles Down on Public Housing
The San Antonio Housing Authority has been working for years to replace the Alazán-Apache Courts with mixed-income housing using a tax-credit deal. But that plan is now scrapped in favor of keeping the apartments as public housing. March 10, 2021, 7am PST | rkaufman Share
For the last several years, the San Antonio Housing Authority has been planning a project that would see the Alazán-Apache Courts, the city’s oldest public housing complex, demolished and replaced with mixed-income housing. The plan was controversial for several reasons. Residents feared that they wouldn’t be able to afford to return to the complex after it was rebuilt, and that they wouldn’t be able to find other affordable apartments elsewhere in San Antonio, even with housing vouchers. And some advocates have said that the project could swiftly gentrify San Antonio’s West Side.
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