About
About San Antonio Alternative Housing Corporation
San Antonio Alternative Housing Corporation (SAAHC) is a nonprofit organization established in November 1993 to provide housing and support services for low and moderate-income communities in Texas, with special emphasis in Bexar Country and Travis County, Texas.
Programs operated by SAAHC have included: Housing Counseling, scattered site-rental, multi-family developments, and resident support services. Funding for projects to date have come from a variety of sources including the City of San Antonio (HOME and CDBG), The Fannie Mae Foundation, the Enterprise Foundation, the Kronkoski Charitable Trust, the San Antonio Housing Trust, the CHRISTUS Foundation, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, financial institutions, and individual contributions.
SAAHC has forty-six (46) scattered site rental units, and 383 multi-family apartment units (the majority in Bexar County and 252 of which are located in Austin, Texas), and provided resident support services at (4) low income housing tax credit apartment complexes.
Neighborhoods Served:
While SAAHC is chartered to serve in any area of Texas, the organization concentrates its services on neighborhoods located within Loop 410, San Antonio, Texas, with special emphasis on housing development in low-income neighborhoods. SAAHC also serves the rundberg area in North Austin. Ninety-five percent of SAAHC units are occupied by families that have annual median incomes (AMI) at or below 60%. Within that group seventy-seven are 50% AMI and below and twenty-four are 30% AMI and below.