San Antonio council decision to kill affordable-housing project draws cries of ‘redlining’

Critics are accusing some City Council members of housing discrimination after shooting down a proposed low-income apartment complex in an affluent Northeast San Antonio neighborhood on Thursday. In a lengthy tweet, Democratic State Rep. Diego Bernal wrote that the difference between what council did during its Zoning and Land Use Session and redlining — the illegal practice in which housing lenders discriminated against minorities – was “almost indistinguishable.” Meanwhile, District 9 Councilman and mayoral candidate John Courage described his colleagues’ decision to scrap the affordable-housing project as “shortsighted.”

This article was originally published by Michael Karlis at San Antonio Current – (https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-council-decision-to-kill-affordable-housing-project-draws-cries-of-redlining-35625305).

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