A San Antonio woman bought the West Side home, and her son tried to repair it illegally.
Elsa Gomez pleads with San Antonio's Building Standards Board on March 9, 2023, to spare her West Side home from demolition.a city panelJust months after her husband died in 2019, Gomez took the insurance money and bought the modest, three-bedroom house on Juanita Avenue. It’s just a block west of the quiet, peaceful grounds of San Fernando Cemetery No. 2.San Antonio ordered 474 homes demolished between 2015 and 2020.
Code inspectors said she was missing a roof, part of which had collapsed. Beams of wood held up the living room and other areas of the home. With no legal city services, Gomez and García borrowed power from neighbors and fed the home electricity with car batteries.Courtesy of the city of San AntonioBuilding Standards Board
The owners were ordered to leave the property, which will be torn down next month at the owner’s expense.
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