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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.
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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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