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Voices emerge to prevent San Antonio culture and history amid encroaching gentrification
While growth is welcomed, many are worried that too much revitalization will force them out of the homes. Author: Deborah Knapp Updated: 11:08 PM CDT May 14, 2021
SAN ANTONIO Development in downtown San Antonio is moving west. UTSA s downtown expansion is an economic generator for the most impoverished area of San Antonio.
While growth is welcomed, many are worried that too much revitalization will force them out of the homes where their families have lived for generations.
But, efforts are underway to help renovate neighborhoods and keep housing affordable.
Local voices are emerging to preserve San Antonio s cultural history and low-income homes with a message of Mi Barrio No Se Vende, which means my neighborhood is not for sale.
Priced out of Southtown, SAY Sí goes west click to enlarge Stephanie Stokes / SA Heron / @estefotografa “What happened in Southtown and the Blue Star area is that it’s become gentrified,” said Jon Hinojosa, SAY Sí’s executive director, on the nonprofit’s move to the West Side. In late 2019, SAY Sí, the youth arts education nonprofit that’s been operating in San Antonio since 1994, announced that it would leave its longtime home, a renovated 26,000-square-foot commercial building at 1518 S. Alamo St., across Probandt from its original site in the Blue Star Arts Complex. “We really thought that was going to be our home forever,” says Jon Hinojosa, SAY Sí’s long-time executive director. As demand for its programs grew over the years, Hinojosa says,