Council: Mobile Homes and Climate Change

City Council gets through a brief agenda the week before budget talks begin

"...40-Item agenda before 5pm: Council members agreed to include mobile home residents in a proposed relocation assistance program; provided..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

City Council Votes to Protect Mobile Home Residents

Nine mobile home parks rezoned for MH residential use

"...affordable housing, City Council on June 20 rezoned nine mobile home parks around the city, containing more than 450..."

July 5, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin's Disappearing Mobile Home Communities

Redeveloping a manufactured housing park isn’t the only way its new owner can turn a profit

"...Not all affordable housing is created equal. Mobile homes, or "manufactured homes," as they're called now, meet..."

Dec. 15, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Mobile Home Motif

Channeling Time Warner

"...council approved (on first reading) zoning for a new mobile home park on 52 acres in southwest Austin. Ignoring..."

Oct. 9, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Mobile Loaves & Fishes Community First! Groundbreaking

"...Local nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes broke ground on Wednesday, August 27..."

Aug. 27, 2014 Photo Gallery

Mobile Home Residents Protest Negligent Management

Tenants struggle with disrupted gas and trash services

"...Residents of the North Lamar Mobile Home Park are once again fighting for better living..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Mobile Loaves & Fishes

"...by Alan Graham, a former local real estate agent, Mobile Loaves & Fishes is a volunteer, faith-based, Christian outreach..."

June 26, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Dream Homes in East Austin?

"...the project will include the construction of 48 rental homes. Despite seven years of delay and political resistance, the..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

"Neighborhood Bound: Austin's Mobile Libraries" & Unbound: Sin Fronteras

"...that I Love Lucy premiered on television, the first bookmobile service in Travis County was launched. The American Association..."

July 10, 2015 Arts Feature

After Numerous Delays, Cactus Rose Zoning Case Heads to Council

Relocation plans for residents of the mobile home park remain tentative

"...relocation plan for the residents of the Cactus Rose Mobile Home Park that currently sits on the site...."

Sept. 23, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Homeless Community Put on Hold

Council member calls for one year moratorium on planned homeless community

"...Habitat on Wheels program run by local homeless charity Mobile Loaves and Fishes. It would turn an 11-acre site..."

June 20, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Slusher Kicks Ass!

"...message from the united Southeast neighborhoods. This is not "mobile homes are evil." Many of us live in mobile..."

March 13, 1998 Column

Life After Gentrification

When you and your home both have to move

"...in Del Valle. Aside from the two dozen other mobile homes, gas pumps, a convenience store, and the traffic..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Postscripts

Shuttle Carnage Looms

"...Shuttlebus Driver's Union No More Mobile Homes..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Column

Casar Calls Out Landlords

Supports D4 renters' suit alleging breach of contract

"...Austinites may more readily think of food trucks than homes when they hear “trailer park.”..."

May 5, 2015 News Post by Amy Kamp

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Bluff Springs residents say they aren't opposed to mobile homes. They are, however, opposed to the planned Regency..."

Aug. 29, 1997 News Feature

Predatory Practices

"...For what it's worth, there is at least one mobile home park in my own neighborhood, Montopolis, that is..."

May 8, 2015 Postmarks

The Hands That Feed

The groups that care for Austin's hungry could sure use a few more helping hands

"...of its work, it's no secret that Austin-based nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes has been sending food missions into..."

Dec. 25, 2009 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Between Round Rock and a Hard Place

Northridge Acres can't find water, water anywhere.

"...atop the pipes that carry "fresh" water to their homes. The pipes aren't buried all that far down; in..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature by Walter Howerton Jr

Rental Health Worries

Pecan Springs Gives Apartments Thumbs Down

"...to build a big apartment complex near existing single-family homes. The neighbors don't like it, at least not the..."

Dec. 26, 1997 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Settlement for Cactus Rose

Displaced families will receive compensation for their moves

"...The Cactus Rose mobile home park community received a final relocation package offer..."

Nov. 25, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Future Uncertain for Cactus Rose

Zoning change may be postponed for mobile home park, but remains on the horizon

"...Residents of Cactus Rose Mobile Home Park could be forced to move pending a..."

March 25, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Council: Pilots, Roses, and Champions

Marathon days of zoning are soon over

"...at 60% median family income, and 10% affordable owned homes at 80% MFI (both to be maintained for 40..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

SXSW Film: Selected Shorts

From 3,597 submissions, 106 emerge

"...MOBILE HOMES (USA/France) Director: Vladimir de Fontenay MOBILE HOMES tells..."

Feb. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Tailgating Teasips

Mick Vann makes a foray into the curious and often elaborate rite of University of Texas fandom known as "tailgating" and discovers some intriguing practices.

"...rival anything Dante could have imagined. It was the mobile booze and food fiesta known as the Tailgaters Party,..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Defending Dawson Neighborhood

"...said that nice people can afford to live in mobile homes. And the noise from the freeway and the..."

May 21, 2007 Postmarks

The Bloodthirsty Killers of Circle C

Victims take flight! ... Officials shrug! ... Stealthy predators stalk the suburban streets!

"...in Circle C, a gentle curve lined with tall homes of limestone and brick. The garage doors are all..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Full Ballot Language With Extended Endorsements

"...land and veterans' housing assistance funds to provide veterans homes for the aged or infirm and to make principal,..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature

Full Ballot Language With Extended Endorsements

"...land and veterans' housing assistance funds to provide veterans homes for the aged or infirm and to make principal,..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature

Full Ballot Language With Extended Endorsements

State Constitutional Election, Sept. 13, 2003

"...land and veterans' housing assistance funds to provide veterans homes for the aged or infirm and to make principal,..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature

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