The Pioneer

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 Dear Texans,

The new 2025 HUD SDDA map is out. See attached graphic to the left.

Hard-working Texas taxpayers in these areas should understand these geographic designations by HUD mean that HUD will financially incentivize Section 8 and low-income "Affordable Housing" developers to target and purchase land in these areas.

Low-income housing developers, such as Jean Latsha with Pedcor Investments, will use attorney lobbyists, to convince land owners to apply to have their properties rezoned for Multi-Family Apartments (MFA) in these areas, before they make an offer to purchase the properties. Jean Latsha's husband, Rob Latsha, is the Executive Director of the Texas Bond Review Board, of which reserves the bond to guarantee the millions of dollars in tax credit her company will receive per project, a conflict of interest hard-working Texas taxpayers have filed complaints with to the Texas Ethics Commission.

Low-income housing developers might also even use attorney lobbyists, such as Rob Killen of Killen, Griffon, and Farrimond, to voluntarily apply to have their properties annexed into a municipality. Once annexed, the property will then be rezoned to MFA, to make way for Section 8 or low-income "Affordable Housing" through the same attorney lobbyist. This has already happened at least once in Boerne, with Boerne citizens only finding out after the project was nearly complete.

The red portions on the HUD SDDA map are considered "metro" areas, while hard-working Texas taxpayers that live in these areas, know these areas are anything but "metro" and represent the pristine and beautiful Texas Hill Country. The "blue" portioned areas are HUD designated "Zip Code Tabulation Areas "ZCTA" which HUD also uses to plan Section 8 and low-income "Affordable Housing."

The "purple" designated areas are considered "non-metro" areas, and also incentivize Section 8 and low-income "Affordable Housing" to target these areas.

Bulverde-Spring Branch and huge swaths of Western Comal County, all zoned for Smithson Valley High School, will remain targeted by HUD for Section 8 and low-income "Affordable Housing."

The Fair Oaks Ranch area that will remain targeted by HUD for Section 8 and low-income "Affordable Housing," is zoned for Boerne ISD.

Medina Valley ISD may also be impacted in far Western Bexar County, where this school district provides public schools in Western Bexar County.

Any Section 8 or MFA "Affordable Housing" projects built in these areas will bring hundreds and hundreds of students into already overcrowded school systems, and receive millions and millions of dollars in property tax credits per project, while the rest of hard-working Texas taxpayers in these communities are expected to make up the difference.

These hard-working Texas taxpayer Hill Country communities are also all in an existential water crisis, where some residents in single family communities are experiencing their wells drying up. Yet, the State of Texas and HUD aim to target these areas with high-density taxpayer subsidized Section 8 or "Affordable Housing” that will consume more water.

The larger Boerne area and the previously identified swaths of Kendall County were removed from the same HUD designation in the 2024 map, comparatively.

Nevertheless, these plans are all a reflection upon political and social goals and objectives to play "social roulette" with hard-working Texas taxpayer communities and disregard for the negative impact high density taxpayer subsidized housing will have in these areas.

Per Bexar County Appraisal District (BCAD) Board of Director Erika Hizel and her public comments made at the 2/21/2025 San Antonio Housing Trust (SATH) public meeting, over $2.2 billion dollars have been pulled out of the property tax revenue system in Bexar County alone by these projects, representing over a couple hundred million dollars that would normally go to public school district financing, while many of these already existing low-income housing projects have low occupancy rates.

So, why build more and in particular place them in Texas Hill Country communities?

A political conundrum remains, in that while the City of San Antonio, or even Bexar County, makes these Section 8 or low-income "Affordable Housing" plans inside areas serviced by Boerne ISD, Comal ISD, or even Medina Valley ISD, taxpayers in Kendall County, Comal County, or Medina County have no political representation to the City of San Antonio or even Bexar County.

The 89th State of Texas Legislature is also in full swing, where it appears that developer lobbyists are convincing even Republican State Representatives and State Senators, to propose and support legislation that is not in the best interest of hard-working Texas taxpayers in single-family residential communities, and even rural semi-suburb communities across the Lone Star State.

Texas Community Preservation has also established contact with the Texas Neighborhood Coalition (https://www.txneighborhoodcoalition.com) and aims to explore partnership and synergistic opportunities with their efforts.

Visit https://www.texascommunitypreservation.org to find out more about how you can preserve our Texas communities.