TFPF Awards Filmmaker Grants

AFS' funding arm awards $121,000 to Texas filmmakers

"...The individual grants are detailed below. Some of the names are familiar,..."

Aug. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Lawsuit Seeks to Block Converting Microtel for Permanent Supportive Housing for City's Homeless

One project stalls, another moves along

"...in philanthropic contributions, bond dollars, and state and federal grants (such as those that subsidize the cost of providing..."

Jan. 3, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Federal Money at Stake

"...Federal mass-transit grants $3.1 billion..."

Feb. 11, 2000 News Feature

Texas Left Holding Short HUD Hurricane Aid Stick

State gets a sliver of total it requested from Congress

"...ever since the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week that Texas will only get $74.5..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Naked City

"...YEAR 2000: The city's five-year, 120-page blueprint for the redevelopment of some of Austin's poorest neighborhoods - known as..."

July 28, 1995 News Feature

Naked City

Wynn announces the formation of Mayors for Public Broadcasting, a nationwide coalition organized to defend public broadcasting from proposed Congressional funding cutbacks

"...budget cuts – such as a proposal to cut Community Development Block Grants by roughly 50% – Wynn said..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

This Is Your City Budget

More police, vanishing grants, rising costs, and ... Jazzercise?

"...penny-wise, pound-foolish approach that results in sparse savings over community benefit. Shuttering Dottie Jordan Recreation Center in Northeast Austin..."

Sept. 2, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The ACM Machine

Assistant City Managers Outlive Rumors of Their Demise

"...a week and a half. That's good for the community, whether you agree with the city council or not,"..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

How Firm a Foundation?

"...folks at Cornerstone. When the Austin gay and lesbian community center opened last summer after years of effort, its..."

July 11, 1997 News Feature by Dan Quinn

The Shark Bites Back

Mitchell Says the Eastside Needs Sharp Teeth

"...last-minute votes for a candidate they believed would support development and business owners on the Eastside. Because Mitchell was..."

April 18, 1997 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...agency paying the tab for the city'sSCIP II home development project in East Austin issued a report last week..."

July 23, 1999 News Feature

Your Tax Dollars at Play

The Rosewood Entertainment Center

"...the city. But that's not all! If politicos and community leaders are right, the center could be the dawn..."

July 28, 1995 News Feature

Council Watch

"...- are expected to approve the Housing and Urban Development loan, which will help pay for a 16-lane bowling..."

June 23, 1995 News Column

Federal Funds Flowing Into Central Texas for Housing, Transit

Doggett announces $122 million in COVID-19 relief

"...funds through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's main local funding programs – Community Development Block Grants..."

April 3, 2020 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Sí, Sí, Ccec

A Mitchell Legacy Gets the Greenlight

"...giving long, angry speeches about the need for Eastside development as a remedy to poverty and crime. Mitchell's in-your-face..."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Council Watch

Housing Squabbles

"...early education and therapy to families of children with developmental delays. If approved by the full council, Goodman's gesture..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Column

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...$2 million of stimulus money in the form of Community Development Block Grants. City staff recommended that the funds..."

May 22, 2009 News Feature

Dream Homes in East Austin?

"...when measured against SCIP's mission. "Why condemn a whole community to another 80 years of disinvestment because of some..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Sequester Austin

HUD tells Leffingwell to expect a 5% cut

"...Lee Leffingwell received a letter from Housing and Urban Development outlining what Austin can expect from the budgetary cuts...."

March 5, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

A Year Later

Galveston marks Ike anniversary with celebrations of recovery and rebirth

"...restore their own lives as well as the whole community. According to an editorial in The Galveston County Daily..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Council Watch

"...to bring publicly subsidized fun to the East Austin community. By dint of five ayes and a Max Nofziger..."

June 30, 1995 News Column by Alex de Marban

The Wrench Is Back

The Return of Brigid Shea

"...represented by the council, to accept four federal housing grants totaling more than $3.5 million. Mitchell recently made an..."

Jan. 26, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

Point Austin: Budget Time

Running all the numbers, we have to pay for what we need

"...question of what might have happened if the environmental community had been united in advocacy throughout the bond process,..."

June 9, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Housing Advocates Protest Trump's HUD Cuts

A week of action kicked off Saturday

"...just the low-income housing supply – $7 million in Community Development Block Grants, for example, which fund child care,..."

July 28, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

City Hall Hustle: Twisting the Knife

Is Austin heading for a double-dip recession?

"...as that bill; for example, cuts to the city's Community Development Block Grants this year are expected to be..."

April 22, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Council Watch

Clothes, Water Quality, and Entertainment

"...Mitchell's pet project, the Central City Enter-tainment Center, with Community Development Block Grants. CDBGs are federal monies normally used..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Column

Council Watch by Alex de Marban Like Water for Councilmembers

"...the southern doorstep of Freeport's proposed 4,590-acre Planned Unit Development (PUD)...."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Column

Hallucination Village

Reynolds and Mitchell Dream Big

"...budget for how it would spend the city's annual Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). CDBG grants are federal housing..."

Nov. 29, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

Public Notice: Government by Committee

Tonight's Town Hall: First step in a "New Way Forward"

"...• Economic Development replaces the Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business Enterprises and Small..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Who You Gonna Call?

Small Texas towns look to Austin and Washington to jump-start economic development

"...has funded in an attempt to encourage local business development. And in doing so, they've defied economic trends that..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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