TERI CASTILLO

The doors of the Sonny Melendrez Community Center on the city’s West Side opened Wednesday to the public as a COVID-19 testing site.

The City of San Antonio code enforcement practices disproportionately impact residents on the near East and West sides, a report found.

San Antonio is more aggressive than all of the major Texas cities combined when it comes to displacing families and demolishing their homes due to code violations, according to <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/news/2021/11/23/new-report-from-the-entrepreneurship-and-community-development-clinic/" target="_blank">a new report </a>from the University of Texas Austin School of Law.

The new policy will give a greater advantage to private or nonprofit developers who plan to build housing units for the poorest residents.

Though half of City Council wanted to reduce bond funding for linear greenway trails, they moved forward with the recommended $110 million.

The San Antonio City Council approved SAWS' and CPS Energy's new trustees, but not without complaints about the process.

Three City Council members are asking to convene a special meeting to further discuss priorities for the 2022-2027 bond.

With $3.1 billion in flood control and drainage needs to be addressed throughout the city, several council members want a larger share of the $1.2 billion bond program put toward that end.

After city staff presented its list of recommended bond projects, council members said they wanted even more district-specific spending.

The first version of San Antonio’s record $1.2 billion 2022 bond program contains big investments on basic infrastructure, money to build out the city’s greenway trails system, and an allotment for a new area - housing.

SAHA says the project is will 'revitalize' Alazan Courts.

San Antonio City Council members want to expand an advisory committee that helps with the code amendment process.

Thanks to lower-than-expected sales tax and CPS Energy revenue, the San Antonio City Council will vote on a slightly smaller 2022 budget Thursday.

As money pours into the Westside Creeks, will rising property taxes and speculation end up forcing residents from their longtime homes?

The number of people facing eviction in San Antonio is very high.

With a U.S. Supreme Court decision putting an end to a federal moratorium on evictions, San Antonio officials hope rental assistance programs could help lessen what some have feared could be a wave of new evictions.

The City of San Antonio's new housing commission members met for the first time Friday, chaired by former Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales.

These two progressive council members now have a seat at the table.

Since the local notice of tenants' rights ordinance took effect in July last year, there have been at least two complaints.

City leaders are reassuring people there are still emergency housing assistance funds left in San Antonio.

Newly-elected District 5 Councilwoman Teri Castillo's friends, family, and former educators say her background has prepared her for the job.

Demolition has begun on the historic Whitt building which was at the center of a battle between Westside preservationists and the owner.

Mario Bravo, Jalen McKee-Rodriguez, Phyllis Viagran, and Teri Castillo took their place on the City Council dais Tuesday for the first time.

Mayor Ron Nirenberg and current and newly elected city council members will be honored during inauguration events on Tuesday.

As young progressives Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and Teri Castillo join the San Antonio City Council, business leaders are watching.

Saturday's runoff election is sending four new faces to city council, all of whom ran on progressive platforms and two of whom beat incumbents. District...

District 2 will get a new council representative as Jalen McKee-Rodriguez defeated Jada Andrews-Sullivan on Saturday.

With all the votes counted, the following candidates have been declared winners in Districts 1, 2, 3, 5 and 9, respectively: Mario Bravo, Jalen McKee-Rodriguez, Phyllis Viagran, Teri Castillo and John Courage.

Current Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales is completing her final, fourth term in office, leaving her seat open. Teri Castillo and Rudy Lopez finished at the head of an 11-way race to replace Gonzales in the May 6 municipal election with 2,077 and 991 votes, respectively.

After advancing to the June 5 runoff in the District 5 race for San Antonio City Council, Teri Castillo felt inspired to make a life change. The progressive candidate captured 2,073 votes (30.6 percent) of the 6,764 ballots cast in the West Side district. Like fellow progressive Jalen McKee-Rodriguez’s council run in District 2, Castillo’s first-time campaign is being spurred by the winds of social change. Castillo, an educator and urban policy historian, believes that the pathway to neighborhood stabilization is through the further investment of existing home rehabilitation programs. “We can have neighborhood stabilization and economic development that benefits the established communities, but it takes prioritizing neighborhoods and stabilization [first],” she says.

In runoffs like those that 10 City Council candidates are facing June 5, every door knocked can make a difference.

On Thursday, city council unanimously approved $24 million in incentives to help a partnership between GrayStreet Partners and the Midway development company of Houston succeed...

Teri Castillo and Rudy Lopez will face each other in the June runoff for the District 5 City Council seat.

Three incumbent San Antonio council members earned sizable early voting leads, while seven races remain close.

Incumbent Councilmember Shirley Gonzales has hit the limit of four two-year terms and will not be on the ballot.

Rapper Bun B is Houston through and through, but he has some things to say about San...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the highest-profile progressives in national politics, has endorsed two candidates running in San Antonio's May 1 citywide election. In...

click to enlarge Jade Esteban EstradaTeri Castillo is facing 10 other candidates in the race to represent San Antonio’s District 5 on city council. And helping run that particular biz in the hood helped her hone her math skills.“We always had the best nachos,” she recalls. We hooked it up.”She says it felt good to see so many customers happy to see the truck arrive. I think that’s why transparency is important, right? She lives two houses away from her tío, and her tío lives two houses away from her tía.“[It’s] just like the...interconnectedness,” Castillo says.