Ms. Ann Williams Cass

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  Published on: 7/4/2009    Last Visited: 7/4/2009  

  Ann Williams Cass,
  
  Executive Director
  
  Ms. Ann Cass has the overall responsibility for the organization's operations under the direction of a community led and directed Board of Directors. Ms. Cass is responsible for proper utilization of funding as well as overseeing program development and administration. She oversees construction to ensure that quality, timeliness, and affordability are maintained. She coordinates with other housing organizations, local and state governments, educational and social service agencies, as well as other non-profits in the community.
  
  Ms. Cass has been with the organization since September of 2006. Her involvement with self-help housing has benefited Proyecto Azteca in terms of seeking stability and capacity for the organization, improvements to the self-help affordable design, economic development initiatives, and most importantly, networking with other organizations in the community, to name a few.
  
  Prior to coming to Proyecto Azteca, Ms. Cass was the Pastoral Administrator of Holy Spirit Parish in McAllen, Texas, for twenty five years where she was the principal person responsible for a $1.8 million church building project. She co-founded the Family Health and Resource Center in McAllen, TX, which provides free medical and mental health services. Ms. Ann Williams Cass worked as administrator for the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, in Texas during the 1980's and has immense experience working with non-profits in the Rio Grande Valley.
  
  She holds a Masters in Pastoral Studies with a focus in Parish Administration from Loyola University in New Orleans. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in community and economic development issues on the South Texas Border to housing, health care, immigration and education.

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  Published on: 7/12/2008    Last Visited: 7/24/2008  

  Ann Williams Cass, a representative of the No Border Wall Coalition, a grassroots opposition group, said County Judge Salinas should never have supported the wall or the levee proposal because it's the federal government's responsibility to fix the levees.Furthermore, she added, the barrier simply won't work.

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  Ann Carol Cass, Executive Director

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  For more information contact our executive director, Ann W. Cass, at annwcass@aol.com.

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  Published on: 3/1/2009    Last Visited: 3/10/2009  

  This latest twist on the housing crisis sounds horribly familiar to Ann Cass, executive director of affordable housing developer Proyecto Azteca.
  
  Since 1991, the nonprofit has worked to repair the damage done by colonia developers in the early 1990s, who sold overpriced lots in hastily built subdivisions to families earning as little as $6,000 a year without actually giving them legal ownership of the lots, leading to a wave of foreclosures, says Cass.
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  "We thought we had it settled," says Cass. However, the problem seems to have returned. Locals call a strip of about 20 new subdivisions along Highway 107 here "Colonia Row."
  
  "If you're not looking at the road you're driving on, these subdivisions look similar to the old colonias, because they are loaded with substandard housing," says Cass.
  
  Housing advocates and state officials are struggling to assess how many homeowners in these new colonias signed deed in lieu of foreclosure documents-there could be thousands.
  
  Exploitation by developers is just a symptom of the broader shortage of housing affordable to very low-income people along the border, says Cass. It's this shortage that motivates such families to pay as much as $30,000 for a lot with real market values probably closer to $10,000, she adds.
  
  With assistance from state and federal programs, affordable housing developers like Proyecto can help families build a safe house with a total development cost of about $33,500, plus the cost of the land, says Cass. So far, Proyecto has built 500 affordable homes on lots owned by very-low income residents living in the colonias. "In the last two years, we have not had to foreclose on anyone," says Cass.

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  Published on: 6/12/2008    Last Visited: 6/12/2008  

  But Ann Cass with Proyecto Azteca told Action 4 News that residents do not qualify for the assistance.
  
  She said the colonia residents must make $40,000 and have a high credit score to qualify.
  
  Cass criticized Perry but said her group will try to help the colonia residents build proper homes.
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  Watch our video clip for our interview with Cass.
  
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  Published on: 10/31/2007    Last Visited: 11/23/2007  

  Ann Cass, Proyecto Azteca

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  Published on: 3/1/2007    Last Visited: 8/5/2009  

  The energetic new Amnesty club invited Ann Cass of Proyecto Azteca to speak on the border wall and invited Juan Guerra to speak on private prisons.

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  Published on: 1/1/2004    Last Visited: 3/19/2004  

  Ann Williams Cass

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  Published on: 4/1/2008    Last Visited: 4/3/2008  

  Among those calling for Salinas to axe his deal with Chertoff were Hagne, Ann Cass, a member of the No Border Wall Coalition and executive director of Proyecto Azteca, Wayne Bartholomew, executive director of Frontera Audubon, Juanita Valdez-Cox, director of La Unión del Pueblo Entero, Fernando Flores, a Los Caminos del Rio board member, and Rey Anzaldua, a Granjeno landowner.

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