“It is very important for me, for us to pass the Tenant Bill of Rights in San Antonio, because we as renters are often not aware that we don’t have to live like this,” said Silvia Flores, a resident of Seven Oaks Apartments.
Councilwoman Teri Castillo speaks in support of a resolution to raise renters' awareness of their existing rights to safe housing in San Antonio.Four San Antonio City Council members stood with several housing rights groups in the blustery rain Tuesday to announce a plan to raise awareness of renters’ existing rights to safe housing.
“I’ve had to live with water leaking from my bathroom ceiling through the years and nothing has been done about it,” said Silvia Flores, who has lived for four years at Seven Oaks Apartments, where tenants haveof mold, leaky pipes, swollen ceilings, broken air conditioners, unchecked crime and unresponsive management.
The resolution should act as an awareness campaign for renters, Rocha Garcia said. About 625,000 renters live in San Antonio and rental units make up about 46% of the city’s housing stock, according to a. Almost half of renters here are cost-burdened, meaning they pay more than 30% of their income toward housing.
“We want to ensure livability standards [and] we want to make sure that negligent landlords know that what they’re doing is not okay,” said Uel Trejo-Rivera, a community equity analyst at Texas Housers, an affordable housing policy and advocacy nonprofit.
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