The Pioneer

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Dear Texans,

Unfortunately, since the beginning of 2025, multiple examples of how not just crime, but violent crime, continues to plague the San Antonio Housing Trust’s (SAHT) low-income “Affordable Housing” projects. Similar projects in the City of San Antonio (CoSA) area were subject of comparable criminal and tragic events.  

Animal Cruelty: In January 2025, there was a documented grotesque display in the SAHT’s Culebra Creek Apartments near Alamo Ranch, where an occupant was seen heinously beating a puppy on an apartment balcony. Taxpayers and concerned citizens discovered that Animal Control Services (ACS) calls to this “Affordable Housing” project have been off the charts, including calls to pick-up dead animal remains at or near this location. The Culebra Creek Apartments are one of the SAHT and Pedcor Investments partnership projects. Pedcor Investments Vice President (VP) of Development, Jean Latsha, is married to the Executive Director of the Texas Bond Review Board, Rob Latsha, who processes his own wife’s company’s tax credit applications that the Bond Review Board allocates that results in her company receiving millions and millions of dollars in tax credits per projects. This conflict of interest has been made keenly aware to elected officials, including to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton’s signature is the last signature on Texas Bond Review Board bonds that guarantee tens of millions of dollars of tax credits to “Affordable Housing” projects, while Texas taxpayers incur more debt as a result.

Venezuelan Violent Gang Tren de Aragua: In early May 2025, another one of the SAHT’s “Affordable Housing” projects was also the subject of a multi-agency raid by local law enforcement, state, and federal authorities. Multiple arrests were made related to violent and U.S. government designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang members at the SAHT’s Arbor at West Avenue “Affordable Housing” project. As documented in this video, the gang members were using the SAHT’s “Affordable Housing” project as a stash house to smuggle illegal aliens and drugs. Despite taxpayers paying millions of dollars for the construction or refurbishing of these types of projects, which includes paying for tenants’ rent, utility bills, and “complete wraparound assistance” in many cases, authorities seized a million dollars in cash from these gang members, while they were “on the way to the beach,” according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Department. 

Egregious Finding: In another non-SAHT related, but Section 8 related apartment complex, on 27 May 2025, a small fetus was discovered in a trash canister at the Canlen West Apartments located at 3536 West Avenue in CoSA. As far back as 2019, through Opportunity Home, formerly known as the “San Antonio Housing Authority” (SAHA), Canlen West apartment complex owners received significant taxpayer funded Section 8 subsidies. 

Stolen Vehicle: Ironically, right next to where the SAHT and Pedcor Investments is placing the Creek Bend low-income “Affordable Housing” project on Borgfeld Drive, according to a social media post and related to Bexar County Sheriff case # 2025-BCSO-007462,  a resident of Willis Ranch right next to the Creek Bend location, had his vehicle stolen from his driveway. The vehicle was even more ironically recovered at the SAHT and Pedcor Investment’s low-income “Affordable Housing” apartment complex called “Canyon Pass” just down the road off of Overlook Parkway. 

Elected Official Speaks Out: Bexar County Appraisal District (BCAD) elected Director Erika Hizel’s public comments at the 2/21/2025 SAHT open meeting, demonstrate how these projects deplete public school financing to the tune of tens of millions of dollars per project, and represent over $200 millions of dollars in public school financing across Bexar County. Ms. Hizel goes onto describe that the "Public Facility Corporation" (PFC) concept, like the SAHT, hasn't changed in 40 plus years. Yet, CoSA still remains the 3rd poor city in the U.S. per capita. So, why keep doing it?

CoSA and its District 9 (D9) continue with plans to lay siege to the 281 North corridor with these low-income “Affordable Housing” projects, that includes geographic areas served by Comal ISD, while Comal County taxpayers have no political representation to the CoSA. To boot, Texas taxpayers recently uncovered that CoSA D9 City Council candidate Angi Aramburu is directly connected to aforementioned Pedcor Investments VP of Development Jean Latsha. 

Boerne ISD Be Warned: With CoSA having annexed huge portions of Ralph Fair Road next to Fair Oaks Ranch that is zoned for Boerne ISD, Boerne ISD and Kendall County taxpayer communities should also beware of the criminal peril and financial peril these projects will bring into those communities and school districts, regardless of how politically incorrect it is. The aforementioned reports substantiate such information. 

Both Comal ISD and Boerne ISD have been subject of Texas Chapter 49, aka “Robinhood Act” that has taken almost $200 million dollars combined between both school districts property tax revenue streams, where the State of Texas distributes your local property tax revenue to other school districts. This is under a social welfare argument, the hard-working Texas taxpayers in Boerne ISD and Comal ISD are too unfairly wealthy. Yet, the same hard-working Texas taxpayer communities in Boerne ISD and Comal ISD are to sit idly by while HUD, the SAHT, and other special interests aim to upend these communities with similar projects as described above, bring hundreds and hundreds of students per project into these already overcrowded public school districts, and the developer and essentially property owner pay no property taxes into these public school systems. Not to mention, the rent, utilities, and other “complete wraparound assistance” in these projects are also paid for by Texas taxpayers. 

Medina Valley ISD Be Warned: Additionally, there are swaths of geography in Western Bexar County where CoSA has annexed land that is zoned for Medina Valley ISD. The dynamics and warning are the same, with Medina County taxpayers having no political representation to CoSA. 

Remember, Texas taxpayers are paying for these low-income “Affordable Housing” projects two and three times over or more: taxpayers are paying for the construction costs, taxpayers are paying for the “Affordable Housing” developer fees, taxpayers are paying for the rent, utilities, and complete wraparound assistance in some of these projects, taxpayers are paying for the burden on emergency services serving these projects, and taxpayers are paying for the public school costs associated with these projects by the amount of students they bring into public school systems where the projects are already being placed. And don't forget about Texas Chapter 49 ya'll! 

To find out more about what you can do to preserve your community, visit https://www.texascommunitypreservation.org to learn how “voting is not enough,” and that as hard-working Texas taxpayer communities, you must get involved. 

 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.