New Homeless Supportive Housing Project Breaks Ground on South Side

SAN ANTONIO – A new housing project to help support more than 200 chronically homeless people officially broke ground Wednesday. The Commons at Acequia Trails, located off Old Corpus Christi Road, will provide 201 units of permanent supportive housing run by San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries (SAMM).

The group expects it to be done by late 2026 and filled to near capacity within 90 days. More than just a place to live, permanent supportive housing offers services for people who have been homeless for at least a year and have disabling conditions. Isaac Mercado, 53, lives at Towne Twin Village, another permanent supportive housing development. He said he was homeless for about half of his life, in and out of being incarcerated.

Moving to Towne Twin Village a year and a half ago has changed a lot, he said. “I’m learning how to have the responsibility, how to pay my bills,” he said. “I learned how to maintain, and I know how to stay clean, how to get off the drugs, how to product myself to be part of the community here.”

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