In the latest piece of the initiative to revitalize southeast Fort Worth’s Stop Six neighborhood, the newly built 80-unit Babers Manor mixed-income multifamily complex will open to leasing in March.
Named for the community leader Clarence Donald Babers, Babers Manor includes townhomes and garden apartments on Ramey Avenue between South Hughes Avenue and South Edgewood Terrace.
The property is one of several that Fort Worth Housing Solutions and partners are building to create more than 900 units across Stop Six that will replace the demolished Cavile Place housing project and its 300 units.
“Anybody would be proud to live in these units,” Mary-Margaret Lemons, Housing Solutions president, told members of the Fort Worth Community Development Council advisory board Feb. 11, showing pictures of modern apartments, interiors and amenities.
Babers Manor is scheduled to open in April, bringing Housing Solutions’ total number of completed or opening units to 416 in three properties. Three additional phases that total more than 500 units are in different stages of construction and planning; the entire initiative is expected to cost about $450 million.
Babers Manor’s financing included $16.34 million in federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and $161,000 in “45L” credits — federal incentives to developers building or rehabbing energy-efficient homes — syndicated by Hunt Capital Partners and Aetna. Syndication allows developers to raise money for projects by selling or transferring tax credits.
The 51 low-income units in Babers Manor are set aside for households earning up to 30%, 50%, 60% and 80% of area median income. Forty-three of the low-income units are supported by federal rental subsidies that are linked to the unit, not the tenant. Four of those units will be for formerly homeless people.
Rear of the Cowan Place senior living multifamily complex, the first of six phases of a Fort Worth Housing Solutions initiative designed to replace the demolished Cavile Place housing project. (Guillermo San Juan | Fort Worth Report)
Housing Solutions and the city of Fort Worth launched the Stop Six initiative in 2020 with a $35 million grant from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The partnership demolished Cavile Place beginning in December 2020, and its residents have first opportunity to lease the replacement units as Housing Solutions finishes them.
The displaced Cavile Place residents received housing vouchers that allowed them to pay 30% of their income toward rent. Twelve families of the original residents have moved back to Stop Six, and 30 have expressed interest in returning.
Since then, former Cavile Place residents who are participating in case management services have seen their average household income increase to $26,646 from $10,029 by the end of 2025, Lemons told Community Development Council members.
Three former Cavile residents are now homeowners, with another 21 being on track to become homeowners in the next two years, Lemons said.
The initiative also has produced improvements across the education and health metrics. Reading and math proficiency for students in grades three through eight have increased to 49% from 32.5%, while 94% of adults are insured and connected to primary health care physicians, and children are 100% insured and engaged with regular health care, Lemons said.
Hughes House’s first phase on East Rosedale Street is the second phase of a six-phase Fort Worth Housing Solutions plan to replace the demolished Cavile Place housing project with 900 units in the city’s Stop Six neighborhood. (Guillermo San Juan | Fort Worth Report)
The Cavile replacements are being done in six phases:
Cowan Place, with 174 senior living units, 5400 E. Rosedale St., opened in fall 2023 to tenant move-ins and held its grand opening that November. Cowan Place is named after Alonzo and Sarah Cowan, two of the earliest landowners in Stop Six.
Hughes House Phase 1, 162 units, began moving tenants in last August and held its grand opening in October at 4830 E. Rosedale St. Hughes House, named after the late Dunbar High School coach Robert Hughes, who owns the most wins of any American high school basketball coach in history, has a fitness center, clubhouse, dog park and 8,000 square feet of commercial space available for lease by JLL for a restaurant, pharmacy and local businesses.
Babers Manor is in Phase 3.
Hughes House, Phase 3, 78 units, is expected to open 18 months from now, Housing Solutions said. It is being completed ahead of the second phase of Hughes House.
Hughes House, Phase 2, 300 units, will have a community pool and splash pad. Financing should close in April, starting the construction process, Lemons said.
Miller and Rosedale. The timetable for this final phase of the Cavile project isn’t set yet, but the project should include about 125 units, Housing Solutions said.
Documenter name: Guillermo San Juan
Date: Feb. 11, 2026
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The Miller/Rosedale site is still in predevelopment. The final unit count, building plans and other details are still being completed, and those details could change projected costs, Housing Solutions said.
All six of the new developments are within 1.8 miles of Cavile Place, a requirement of the original federal grant.
Guillermo San Juan is a senior at Texas Wesleyan University and is a member of the Fort Worth Report Documenters crew.
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