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,
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Kayla Miranda and fellow advocate Amelia Miranda watch the eviction of a resident Wednesday from Apache Courts, a neighboring complex of Alazán Courts, which SAHA plans to rebuild.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Community advocate Kayla Miranda, 37, talks with her daughter, Nadia, 16, at their Alazan-Apache Courts unit, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Miranda has been an outspoken person on the issue of the demolition of the courts and their redevelopment. With them is the family’s three-year-old dog, “Joy”.Jerry Lara, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
The fight over San Antonio s Alazan-Apache Courts shows different visions for the West Side Posted By Gus Bova, The Texas Observer on Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 10:34 AM click to enlarge Ben Olivo / SA Heron Alazán Courts resident Jacquline Caldwell speaks at a protest in front of SAHA headquarters late last year. On a Thursday in early November, nearly 70 San Antonians showed up via Zoom to address the board of the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA), a quasi-governmental agency that oversees the city’s public housing and Section 8 vouchers. Due to the unusual volume of people, the board chair cut individuals’ speaking time from 3 minutes to a minute and a half. In 90-second bursts, often interrupted by technical difficulties, a st