Iris Dimmick 🌊

Grants Manager @HavenforHope. Former senior reporter, managing editor of @SAreport . Missing Colorado. Loving Texas.

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Jacob and Chelsea, along with their three children, arrived at Haven in 2021. While at Haven, their children attended school, and Chelsea and Jacob attended parenting and financial literacy classes, working on their goals of finding stable employment and housing.

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This year, the National Corporate Housing team held its annual conference in San Antonio. Yesterday, they donated 3,100 hygiene kits to Haven and assembled them in 30 minutes!

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Permanent Supportive Housing: Housing and Homelessness
"Homelessness is not a problem, it's the result of the problem". -Shaheem White, SAMMinistries

#havenforhope #hopeliveshere #SAMMinistries # https://t.co/3PljQckuud

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Haven for Hope would like to thank the United Way's Dual Generation program for visiting campus and distributing Valentine's Day kits for our Haven kiddos.

#havenforhope #hopeliveshere #transforminglives #volunteer #weloveourvolunteers

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Fresh off the removal of his salary cap, City Manager Erik Walsh could be in for raise https://t.co/SlE9grIO4N w/ @viviris

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"Because it is so small, they each wear many hats both behind the scenes and in front of guests to create the experience that just earned Mixtli global recognition — and has already begun to change their lives."
✍️ @tihsatx 📷 @BriaWoods1

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Mixtli executive chefs and co-founders Rico Torres and Diego Galicia have been intentional about giving women opportunities in their kitchen. https://t.co/DZWPsjlK1K

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The firefighters are a feared political entity in San Antonio politics, will their phoned-in anti-Prop C campaign hold up?

"They’re likable… When they really sink their teeth into campaigns... it’s difficult to be on the opposite side of them"
https://t.co/RqLCcBL2aC @viviris

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See @themollycox ? Told you I was working on something long and wonky 🤓

Hope I made it relatable/readable!

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“As it has been applied, [it] is an artifact of an era of exclusionary land use and redlining. … Placing a supermajority threshold for the purposes of giving some members of the community an outsized voice to exclude people is, in my view, anti-democratic.” - @Ron_Nirenberg

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How a 100-year-old, 'anti-democratic' law is killing Texas housing projects -- @viviris @SAReport https://t.co/K5I2ZfgYLY

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“It was empty, it was available and it was super cheap,” said Honigblum.

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Celebrating its 25th year, Sam's Burger Joint and Music Hall is a San Antonio institution, its iconic neon record sign still glows each night. https://t.co/YtZH2s55zQ

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@themollycox @KGMPassingThru @COSAGOV Thanks for sharing the voter guide! #votevotevote an "announcement" you say? 👀

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With the voter registration deadline approaching, @BexarCounty Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen urged residents to mail (or drop off) their applications to Bexar County’s election office: 1103 S. Frio, Ste. 100
San Antonio, TX 78207 https://t.co/qFFN4hzPli
✍️ @tihsatx

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A record 1.28 million voters are registered in Bexar County, but hundreds of thousands remain unregistered. The deadline is Oct. 7. https://t.co/VDK4KpFbHX

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He's back https://t.co/FZQUzyNsqx
w/ @viviris

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In which mayoral hopeful @JohnCourageD9 says he was wrong to vote against affordable housing in his own district 4 yrs ago
“I made an error in judgment ...[but] the rest of my council had a broader perspective ... Are we NIMBYs ourselves?”https://t.co/g322Bhb4CC via @viviris

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Strawberry milk is already gross, imo, but this is next level.

✍️ @isaacdwindes

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A handful of parents reported issues to the districts, prompting them to stop serving the milk at all campuses. https://t.co/acktIQ10sv

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“We support affordable housing when it’s convenient. We support affordable housing when we don’t hear too many complaints from the neighbors,” @JohnCourageD9 /@CourageforSA added, using the acronym for not-in-my-backyard: “Are we NIMBYs ourselves?”

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Despite developers making several concessions and adjustments to the plan based on neighbor feedback, they remained opposed to the project. https://t.co/7hItbBsHay

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These tenants could be teachers, restaurant workers, senior citizens, hospital workers and others who are “the lifeblood of our community, and yet cannot find places to live that are commensurate with their income levels,” Olivia Travieso of @OCIGroup & OCI Development

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The project shows the challenges that residents, developers and policymakers face when addressing San Antonio's housing affordability crisis. https://t.co/WEQy7fMCkL

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“Folks, I would do what I did all over again, not just because I’m required by Texas law to report it, but because that’s what anybody should do,” Whyte @cosa_cd10 said at the board’s hearing Wednesday night.

✍️ @AndreaDrusch 📷 Brenda Bazán

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A three-and-a-half hour hearing detailed how the District 10 councilman involved two branches of law enforcement in an April incident. https://t.co/mjZPQStnbt

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WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, journalist Alsu Kurmasheva and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were among 24 freed in prisoner swap with Russia. https://t.co/eqBkQWmPaJ

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“Obviously, there are going to be races happening and there’s politics in the background of a lot of things that happen at the city,” @Ron_Nirenberg said. “I’m confident that my colleagues can separate the two.”

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The potential mayoral candidate's proposals came one week before a vote — and drew criticism from council colleagues. https://t.co/UYbFDi3Y0V