Eighty new homes have landed in Fort Worth's Stop Six neighborhood, mixing townhouses and apartments along Ramey Avenue. The development, known as Babers Manor, is the latest piece of a sprawling affordable housing push aimed at reshaping the community.
According to CBS News Texas, Babers Manor has opened. The 80-unit property sits between South Hughes Avenue and South Edgewood Terrace and blends garden-style apartments with townhomes, giving residents a range of layouts within a single community, according to the Fort Worth Report. Of those 80 units, 51 are reserved for households earning up to 30%, 50%, 60% or 80% of the area median income, according to the Fort Worth Report. Forty-three of those income-restricted units carry federal rental subsidies attached to the unit itself rather than to any particular tenant, including four set aside specifically for people who were formerly homeless, per the same report.
The property is named for community leader Clarence Donald Babers, according to Housing Finance. Financing for the project included $16.34 million in federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and $161,000 in federal 45L energy-efficiency credits, the Fort Worth Report notes.
Opening Date Still Unclear
Exactly when Babers Manor started welcoming residents remains unclear. Fort Worth Housing Solutions had said the property was scheduled to open in June.
Part of a Much Bigger Stop Six Overhaul
Babers Manor is one small piece of a much larger transformation of Stop Six that has been underway for years. The neighborhood remake began in 2020, when Fort Worth Housing Solutions and the city of Fort Worth were awarded $35 million in initial federal grant funds, according to the Fort Worth Report. That initial grant is expected to trigger more than $345 million in additional investment and improvements across the neighborhood, the outlet reports, with the entire initiative ultimately projected to cost about $450 million and produce more than 900 new units.
The broader blueprint, laid out by the Stop Six Choice Neighborhood Initiative, calls for replacing the former Cavile Place public housing community with new mixed-income rental homes built out across six phases. The plan also includes a community hub.
Other Phases Already Underway Nearby
Babers Manor isn't the only project rising in the neighborhood. Hughes House, initially proposed as a 210-unit mixed-use development of apartments and townhomes, was originally planned for completion by 2023, according to Fort Worth Inc., and its first phase opened to residents in 2025, per the Fort Worth Report. Phase 1 has 162 units, Phase 2 will have 300 and Phase 3 has 78, according to the Fort Worth Report, for 540 units total. Fort Worth Inc. described the Hughes House development as including roughly 12,000 square feet of commercial space.
Fort Worth Housing Solutions and its partners have said they plan to develop approximately 925 new units across Stop Six through six total development phases, according to the Stop Six Choice Neighborhood Initiative's announcement of the Babers Manor groundbreaking. The final Cavile project phase is referred to as Miller/Rosedale, and its timetable has not been set, according to the Fort Worth Report.
