 HCS has rehabilitated and preserved a place to call home for thousands of residents in numerous locations including:
- San Antonio
- Corpus Christi
- Harlingen
- Robstown
- New Braunfels; Seguin; Luling; Lockhart; Beeville; Brownsville; Weslaco; Victoria; Edinburg; Laredo; and Del Rio, Texas.
- Property based Section 8 contracts enable HCS to provide housing for the very lowest economic strata of families whose income is 30% or less of the area median income.
- 85% of HCS residents are single women as heads of household.
- A fifteen-member Board of Directors governs HCS; each property has a five-member board that includes two residents as members to participate in decision-making processes that directly affect their community.
- HCS offers on-site lifestyle services for residents as well as nonresidents in the neighborhoods proximate to our properties, including educational and skills instruction, computer classes, GED and ESL classes, recreational activities, after-school programming, health fairs and screenings, job resource assistance, social services and case management referrals and much more.
- HCS sponsors a summer camp program each year for our youth population, funded in part by resident fundraisers and contributions from local businesses.
- More than half of our properties feature U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved Neighborhood Networks Centers, several of which have achieved “certified” status.
- There are currently over 3,600 children residing at our properties, ages 0-17. On the average, we work with over 600 children each year in our after school tutoring programs alone.
- HCS organizational funding sources have historically focused on local and/or state Housing Trust Fund loans and local, state and/or federal HOME funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and, also more recently tax credits, among other resources.
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