Council member files request to develop income-based pet deposit assistance program for San Antonio renters
Dignowity Hill resident Vanessa Acosta said the City of San Antonio needs a long-term solution for animal overpopulation. District 2 Councilmember Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is proposing a new plan.
Dignowity Hill residents, social service groups divided over how to help homeless population
This East Side neighborhood is home to an ecosystem of social service organizations. With more than five of these groups catered to helping the homeless population, some neighbors worry the number of people without shelter in the neighborhood will only climb.
Something old, something new: Tech innovation center is at home in Dignowity Hill as community aims to preserve past
Dignowity Hill is committed to its history but open to its evolution, according to neighbors. A unique example of that is the importance and reverence people share for The Carver, a performing arts center that was once the only library for Black San Antonians during segregation. Just blocks away, a company focused on innovation in the life sciences has become part of the neighborhood. And the latter has plans to grow even bigger roots in Dignowity Hill.
Dignowity Hill: A neighborhood with history on every corner struggles to define itself
The view of downtown from many of the homes in the Dignowity Hill neighborhood is second to none, but they also have a front-row seat to some of the cityโs biggest issues: homelessness, gentrification and rising property taxes.
Before Olmos Park and Alamo Heights, there was Dignowity Hill
An African American community at its heart, vestiges of its affluent past remain in Dignowity Hill. But over recent decades of demolition and rebuilding, one historian worries that the integrity of the neighborhood was also lost in the process.