\u201cNew housing law could curb big investors in S.A.,\u201d<\/a> SA Inc., Sunday:<\/p>\nArticle continues below this ad<\/p>\n
Express-News staff writer Lilly O\u2019Neill makes the argument that the new housing bill passed by Congress, limiting institutional investors from owning more than 350 homes, could grow the housing inventory for individual buyers in San Antonio.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t have an inventory problem.<\/p>\n
On Realtor.com, there are almost 16,000 homes for sale in\u00a0San Antonio.<\/p>\n
We do have an affordability problem.<\/p>\n
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We need to either lower prices or raise incomes. The former is more likely than the latter.<\/p>\n
Until buyers walk away from their homes, prices will remain high. It\u2019s possible that is San Antonio\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
Only then can the federal government buy these distressed properties from the county or banks and list them at discounted prices.<\/p>\n
Every homeowner\u2019s valuations will suffer from this, but in the end, the housing market will once again be affordable and first-time buyers can have the opportunity to own homes.<\/p>\n
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Garden good for the\u00a0city<\/p>\n
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones\u2019 push to eliminate the San Antonio Botanical Garden\u2019s city funding is backward.<\/p>\n
The $1.2 million the city puts toward the garden doesn\u2019t stretch nearly as far as it did in 2019, when that agreement was first struck. In today\u2019s economy, this is really asking it to do more with less.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s also worth remembering what San Antonio is.<\/p>\n
This is a tourist city, and the garden is part of what draws people here and keeps them here a little longer. For the people who actually live here, the Botanical Garden means something even more personal. It offers quality of life for children, families and adults alike, and it can\u2019t be easily\u00a0replaced.<\/p>\n
San Antonio\u00a0should be proud of what the Botanical Garden has become. The city shouldn\u2019t ask it to finish that journey alone, especially not on a budget that hasn\u2019t kept up with the cost of doing business.<\/p>\n
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Gary\u00a0W. Cox<\/p>\n
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Answer at ballot box<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cThere\u2019s a better way to make America more religious,\u201d Faith, July 12:<\/p>\n
Columnist John\u00a0M. Crisp prompts us to examine the shortsighted and challenging efforts to promote Bible stories at the expense of students who are not Christian.<\/p>\n
He points out that faith seems to be a prerequisite for election in our country, though once candidates are in office, it doesn\u2019t seem to matter much how they behave, citing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and President\u00a0Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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As he correctly said,\u00a0\u201cSo, Christians, if you want America to be more Christian, start at the ballot box, not in the schools.\u201d<\/p>\n
Have a response? Send us a letter to the editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cHome for Sale\u201d sign is planted by Looker Drive near Ingram on June 15. San Antonio doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1500,125350,82,8486,84,83],"class_list":["post-380745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-affordable-housing","tag-housing-inventory","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-botanical-garden","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}