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Commissioners direct staff to design $500,000 housing-stability pilot aimed at preventing evictions
Summary
Bexar County commissioners directed staff to return with a program design for a one-time $500,000 shallow rental subsidy using Housing Finance Corporation revenues, prioritizing households under 50% AMI while setting eligibility up to 80% AMI and proposing Catholic Charities as administrator.
Bexar County staff presented a proposed one-time housing-stability pilot that would use $500,000 from the Housing Finance Corporation to provide shallow rental subsidies — up to $3,500 per household — to prevent avoidable evictions. Robert Reyna of the county’s Economic and Community Development Department told commissioners eviction filings from January to October totaled 22,116 countywide and that roughly 82% of filings were inside the City of San Antonio.
“We know keeping families in place is more cost effective than resheltering,” Reyna said while outlining a framework that would target households earning up to 80% of area median income (AMI) and prioritize those at or below 50% AMI. Commissioners questioned scale and selection mechanics given 2,000 monthly filings cited in the discussion and asked staff to return with a detailed program design; the court voted to direct staff to draft the program and work with Catholic Charities as a subrecipient to administer client referrals.
