AGENDA - San Antonio Housing Authority

TRANSFORMATION PLANNEIGHBORHOODCORE ELEMENTS OFTHE NEIGHBORHOODTRANSFORMATIONThe San Antonio Housing Authorityis lead on the NeighborhoodImplementation component ofthe Transformation Plan and willroll-out significant improvementsin collaboration with key partner,the City of San Antonio. In June of2011, stakeholders in Choice andPromise Neighborhoods walkedand drove through the entire targetarea of San Antonio’s Eastsideand recorded both land use andcondition for each parcel. Attachment24 provides details of theirfindings but the summation isthat fully one-third of all housingin the neighborhood was foundto be “unlivable” and approximatelyone-quarter of all surveyedparcels were either vacant housesor undeveloped lots. A crossindexingof housing valuationsfound that more than half of allhomes have an assessed valueof less than $30,000 comparedto the San Antonio average of$122,055.The concept plan evolved into acomprehensive, resident-based,neighborhood vision.EASTSIDE CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION PLAN43