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PROGRAM GOALS

  • Promote revitalization efforts in targeted neighborhoods
  • Create affordable housing opportunities, especially for low and moderate income families and first-time homebuyers
  • Enhance the appearance of a neighborhood
  • Develop and / or reuse land for productive use
  • Add increased value to the tax rolls
  • Promote new housing construction and new housing products
  • Encourage homeownership and increase the inventory of affordable housing units
  • Develop partnerships with the public and private sectors
  • Develop mixed-income neighborhoods
  • Provide a positive impact in neighborhoods through reduction of crime, increase in property values and tax base, and strengthening of social networks through homeownership
  • Produce infill housing opportunities within existing city development so as to mitigate the ever-increasing negative effects of urban sprawl,
  • Mixing families of differing socio-economic statuses to decentralize poverty
  • Maximizing the impact of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) allocations by leveraging funds through the contributions of builders, non-profit housing agencies, and private corporations.

PROGRAM PLAN

  • The City acts as the developer of a residential subdivision
  • City Council designates funding for affordable housing
  • Council members and City staff together with community determine a preliminary development plan
  • City staff works with a private engineer to conduct research of the site, create a subdivision plan, and design streets and other infrastructure
  • City staff works with a contractor to build infrastructure
  • City partners with the Greater San Antonio Builders Association (GSABA) to distribute lots to individual home builders


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