{"id":499465,"date":"2026-01-07T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499465\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:10:11","slug":"habitat-for-humanity-san-antonio-celebrates-50-years-new-housing-development-on-east-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499465\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitat for Humanity San Antonio celebrates 50 years, new housing development on East Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Habitat for Humanity San Antonio is celebrating its 50th anniversary and a forthcoming housing development on the East Side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As Bexar County continues to grow, so does the demand for housing. However, rising costs across the board raise concerns around affordability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio\u2019s chapter was founded in 1976. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">During KSAT\u2019s GMSA@9 on Wednesday, Habitat for Humanity San Antonio Chief Development Officer Stephanie Wiese discussed how the group is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a project that will soon break ground. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cPope Leo Village is one of he first ways we\u2019re going to be celebrating that,\u201d Weise told KSAT anchors Stephanie Serna and RJ Marquez. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Pope Leo Village, named after the sitting pope, is a 22-home development located in San Antonio\u2019s Denver Heights neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Weise said construction would begin \u201cin a couple of weeks,\u201d with work happening through June. Homes will be available to low-income families through Habitat for Humanity\u2019s homeownership program with 0% interest mortgages, the group\u2019s website said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For more information on Pope Leo Village, click <a href=\"https:\/\/habitatsa.org\/pope-leo-village\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/habitatsa.org\/pope-leo-village\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Habitat for Humanity San Antonio is celebrating its 50th anniversary and a forthcoming housing development&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,75189,7065,3417,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-499465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-habitat-for-humanity","10":"tag-housing","11":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115855165083117487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}