Cronk Meets Job Creation Goals

City manager names candidates for new executive team

"...– the assistant city manager over Economic Opportunity and Affordability and the ACM over Health and Environment/Culture and Lifelong..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Chronicle Endorsements

Dec. 11 Run-off Election; Early Voting Nov. 29-Dec. 7

"...accomplishments and taking a more assertive role as an affordability advocate in his second term. Austin City Council, District..."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Public Notice: Homes for the Holidays?

Housing Blueprint Gets an Implementation Plan

"...6: Revise the S.M.A.R.T. Housing Program to lengthen the affordability period and to better balance developer benefits with unit..."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Election Coverage: Take Me to Your Run-Off

The next month in Council races

"...He told me his top priorities are to combat affordability by freezing property taxes and immediately resolve contract matters..."

Nov. 9, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Live Election Night Results & Updates

The latest from the polls and candidate watch parties

"...who wouldn't just fight, but deliver, on taxes, education, affordability and reproductive rights." During that lengthy campaign, Cole's father..."

Nov. 6, 2018 News Post by News Staff

Public Notice: Damn the Torpedoes ...

Full speed astern at Planning Commission

"...preparing to revive the CodeNEXT brawl over density vs. affordability...."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice: Major League

Pushed by mayor, City Council takes the leap

"...a burgeoning startup industry trying to address the housing affordability crisis, and take advantage of advances in "smart home"..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Cronk to Reorganize Management Team

Musical chairs at City Hall

"...and environment," "culture and lifelong learning," "economic opportunity and affordability," "mobility," and "government that works for all."..."

Aug. 3, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Break’s Over, Budget Time Begins

Number crunching

"...adopted by Council back in April: economic opportunity and affordability; mobility; safety; health and environment; culture and lifelong learning;..."

July 27, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Public Notice – CodeNEXT: The Halftime Score?

If you view the code rewrite simply as a struggle between the urbanists and the preservationists, it's fair to ask, who's winning?

"...they do come at some costs in terms of affordability and livability...."

July 6, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Warming to CodeNEXT?

Chamber of Commerce's poll reflects improving views of zoning rewrite

"...voter survey, covering topics including Austin's overall direction, growth, affordability, environment and economy, and indeed CodeNEXT...."

May 18, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

More Information Please

April 16, 2018 Postmarks

Public Notice: People’s Housing Justice

What Council can do that's not CodeNEXT

"...do a little around the margins to improve small-a affordability, by helping to retain existing residents and existing housing..."

April 13, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice: Your City at Work

"Shaping policy for generations to come"

"...itching to get into serious policy issues such as affordability and displacement, their commissioners still have serious misgivings about..."

March 23, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Point Austin: “Austin Will Still Be Austin”

Adler’s “state of the city” imagines a bulwark against “a giant honking mess”

"...specific 2017 progress in addressing major city challenges: "traffic, affordability, racial and economic inequality, homelessness, and climate change."..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Public Notice: Groundhog Day ... Again

CodeNEXT: Haven't we been through this before?

"...first draft release. In a column titled "Density vs. Affordability," I quote Mayor Steve Adler as saying, "if we..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Point Austin: Amazon in Austin’s Pocket

A business model built on public subsidies shouldn’t have its hand out

"...Amazon expansion might serve to catalyze regional "mobility and affordability." Since the productive debate over the Domain and Samsung,..."

Jan. 26, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Public Notice: Old News on CodeNEXT

Scattershots, while waiting for Draft Three

"...that's been brewing for a while (see "Density vs. Affordability," Feb. 19, 2016)...."

Jan. 26, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Steve Adler Mounts Second Bid to Run City

Mayor shares his vision for Austin's next four years

"...in addition to focusing on Austin's major challenges – affordability and mobility – he's aware of having to "defend..."

Jan. 19, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

The (Longer) Road to CodeNEXT

Opponents would freeze the process via referendum

"...nuance." She added that people are very concerned about affordability ("especially in my District 1"), but that Texas law..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Campaign Notes: Adler vs. ?

Citywide election pool begins to fill up

"...this week. "We've made great progress on traffic and affordability, but there's much more to be done."..."

Dec. 8, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

CodeNEXTension

CodeNEXT timeline punted back three months

"...for accessory dwelling units, and increased "opportunities for legally-restricted affordability west of MoPac."..."

Nov. 17, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

CodeNEXT Version 2: The Final Countdown

Marathon land use commission meeting precipitates close of public comment period

"...minor tweaks with a few exceptions – most specifically affordability. Com­mis­sioner Nuria Zaragoza said the affordability session highlighted "big,..."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Imagine Austin Five Years Later

Progress report details wins, losses, path forward for 30-year plan

"...Austin, Creative Economy, Compact and Connected, CodeNEXT, Water, Environment, Affordability, and Workforce. Of those indicators, 17 show improvement –..."

Oct. 9, 2017 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Public Notice: Now’s the Hard Part

CodeNEXT 2.0: still more harm than good?

"...flooding, what does that do to housing capacity and affordability? After a tortured, four-and-a-half-year process, staff and consultants have..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Congratulations!

"...With all the hoop-de-doo about expanding the Convention Center, affordability has been cast to the wind once again. The..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Postmarks

Point Austin: It's Getting Harder to Stay Weird

Amid state and federal nonsense, it's getting harder to stay weird

"...do, which is to improve mobility, and work on affordability, so I'm proud of what we're doing."..."

May 12, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Headlines

"...with a full agenda, including a gimlet eye on "affordability" and economic incentives, another session on Plaza Saltillo, and..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature

The Next Steps for Elysium Park

Affordable housing development gets first-reading approval

"...at the state Department of Housing and Community Affairs. ("Affordability: Everywhere but Here," Aug. 8, 2016.)..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Fast, Cheap, and in Control

Cost-of-living increases are making local artists do more with less

"...local companies have responded to our current crises in affordability and arts venues by creating more art, not less...."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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