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Honored to be included on the Texas Business Journals' annual Texas 100 list of influential Texans. Immensely proud of the work our @STRAC team and its members do across the region. Looking forward to building upon our accomplishments from last year.
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The Texas EMTF continues to support the response to historic flooding with 6 severe weather packages activated across the state.
Currently, 162 #TXEMTF personnel and 79 assets are deployed.
Pictured below: deployed assets in Kerrville, TX.
Mayor @Ron_Nirenberg: What Texas Monthly Got Wrong About San Antonio texasmonthly.com/opinion/opi…
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We’re excited to share our law enforcement navigation (LE NAV) video!
This STCC-led behavioral health program, part of @STRAC, has transformed how we care for patients in crisis, ensuring timely, specialized treatment and easing pressure on ERs and EMS.
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How local rules fuel high housing costs in Texas | The Texas Tribune apps.texastribune.org/featur…
Check out my latest commentary in the @SAReport with Jaime Wesolowski & Dr. Ramachandran on the impact of social determinants of health in San Antonio’s South Side.
A healthier, more equitable community needs cross-sector collaboration.
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City plans to buy vacant lots along proposed VIA Green Line for affordable housing.
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Today in Texas' housing crisis:
A developer pitched 85 low-income apartments & a pre-K facility in San Antonio. Neighbors used a Jim Crow-era law to force the project to get a supermajority of the City Council in order to go through
4 members voted "no," killing the project
'Very disappointed': San Antonio council rejects zoning for first-of-its-kind affordable housing trib.al/BLa2GTV
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If Texas wants to rein in its high housing costs, it needs more homes, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office said Tuesday — the latest sign that the state’s high home prices and rents have become a growing concern for the state’s top officials. Texas needs 306,000 more homes than it currently has, according to a new report.
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✅ Address the housing affordability crisis
✅ Provide permanent supportive housing services to combat homelessness
✅ Provide residents direct access to @VIA_Transit's planned Advanced Rapid Transit Green Line
Four25 San Pedro Apartments have officially broken ground.
Proud to play a small part in this incredible team of Texans helping Texans.
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Texas also set up a base camp with 650 rooms in trailers, equipped with bathrooms, showers, and dining facilities for our first responders who came from across Texas and other states to help. Most are firemen and women and EMT teams.
In addition, we have sent state troopers and police from across Texas to counties in the damaged areas. We supply generators. @TxDOT helps clear roads. @TXEMTF and various other agencies take on multiple tasks and provide support. This is just a part of the assistance Texas is providing in Houston and other counties affected by Beryl.
Statewide, Texas has distributed over:
1.9 million bottles of water
230k ready-to-eat meals
56k bags of ice
And we are not done yet. #txlege #HurricaneBeryl
San Pedro apartments for low-income renters nears completion sanantonioreport.org/four25-…
More Texans struggling with housing costs than ever before | The Texas Tribune texastribune.org/2024/06/24/…
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WE MADE HISTORY! 👏 We're beyond excited to have welcomed the first @Condor nonstop flight from Frankfurt to San Antonio. Welcome to the Lone Star State!
Last night, @SATairport launched its first transatlantic flight on a brand new A330-900neo to Frankfurt on @condor.
A huge thanks to @Greater_SATX & @COSAGOV for making this a reality.
Flights can be found for as low as $600 roundtrip. Book yours now @ condor.com
San Antonio is once again the fastest growing city in America.
San Antonio welcomed just shy of 22,000 new residents in 2023.
The @sahousingtrust Paves the Way for Innovative Universal Design Multi-Family Housing Development in VIDA Community. sahousingtrust.org/san-anton…
“Palestinian paramedics said Israel gave them safe passage to save a 6-year-old girl in Gaza. They were all killed” via @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/world/int…