Proyecto Azteca is a non-profit self-help construction company located in San Juan, TX and serves low-income families in colonias and other rural areas in Hidalgo County. 

 

In 1991, the United Farmworkers of America, Texas Rural Legal Aid and the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service came together to respond to the housing crisis in Texas' Rio Grande Valley Colonias and developed Proyecto Azteca. 

 

In the first year, Proyecto Azteca organized self-help construction with just 4 families. Today, Proyecto Azteca is a nationally recognized, community-directed, self-help housing organization that has financed and trained more than 600 families in the construction and first time ownership of their own homes in over 150 colonias and rural areas. 

 

In 2012 Proyecto Azteca broke new ground in Edcouch and began the construction of the first neighborhood of all Silver-LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) homes south of Austin. With the financial support of an anonymous donor 6 (six) families in Lynchburg received solar panels and have had serious reductions in the cost of their electricity bills. All the homes are energy efficient and completely weather sustainable. 

 

Proyecto Azteca homes are built at 0% interest and monthly payments include property taxes and home insurance.