An August 28 storm ravaged San Antonio. The West Side and the Historic Five Points were hit hard. In the neighborhood, a tree destroyed this home.<\/p>\n
An August 28 storm ravaged San Antonio. The West Side and the Historic Five Points were hit hard. In the neighborhood, a tree destroyed this home. (SBG San Antonio)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody has reached out to any of us,\u201d said Sandra Cortez, a Five Points resident.<\/p>\n
As parts of buildings sit in the middle of roads, the sun rises. Little more than a month has gone by, and some residents say they feel as alone as they did when they first saw the damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think San Antonio deserves more,\u201d said William Sheppard, a Five Points resident.<\/p>\n
In response to the storm, the U.S. Small Business Administration is providing federal loans for damage to homes and businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are intended to be at a lower-than-normal market rate that you will see with normal traditional institutions,\u201d said Gabriel Perales, a public affairs specialist with the SBA.<\/p>\n
SBA staff are at the Las Palmas Public Library to help people sign up. Homeowners can get loans of up to $500,000, and businesses can get up to $2 million. The deadline to apply is November 9.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust agency standards,\u201d Perales said.<\/p>\n
Residents are lukewarm about the loans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re gonna try and help us, even though we have to pay it back,\u201d said Cortez.<\/p>\n
Many residents would have preferred cash grants. The City of San Antonio provides some money for repairs, but pays contractors directly.<\/p>\n
We reached out to the governor\u2019s office to ask why FEMA grants were not requested. The office directed us to the Texas Division of Emergency Management. We are waiting for a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An August 28 storm ravaged San Antonio. The West Side and the Historic Five Points were hit hard.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-474220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474220","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=474220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}