ProLodges Saves and Changes Some of Austin's Most Vulnerable Lives

Can the city keep them open?

"...door and know their belongings are secure, is no small life improvement. It may be one of the most..."

Jan. 1, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Blue Lapis Light's Beyond the Clouds

This aerial dance company's production brought its dancers down to earth but still lifted us up

"...modest meadow between a gently sloping hillock and a small grove, the only structures on it a handful of..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Will the Third Time Be a Charm for an Austin Rail System?

Project Connect looks to help make connections

"...up and demolishing the properties that currently house retailers, apartments, and restaurants to make room for a bigger road...."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Jack Craver

As Eviction Crisis Looms, Local Leaders Ramp Up Relief

Help is on the way?

"...with the temporary moratorium on evictions in federally subsidized apartments and in homes covered by federally backed loans. While..."

Aug. 14, 2020 News Feature by Jose Benjamin Montaño

Land Development Code: What's New in Draft Two

A look at the latest version of Austin's revised land use rules

"...• Small neighborhood grocery stores are now allowed in all residential..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

New Study Changes City Council's View of Flood Risk

Puzzling over a variance on Avenue D, and spending the first of the 2018 bond funds

"...is to see private investment reduce flooding, even in small ways." Shunk agreed...."

March 15, 2019 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Next Austin Bust

Will it be bad? Can we be ready? Or should we not care?

"...of single-family homes (and, to be fair, plenty of apartments) now lie at the edges of commuting range and..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

"Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance" at the Ransom Center

This evocative excavation into the artist's process of creating art and making books reveals the work of art is the completed book itself

"...a nutso inventory spreadsheet: Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Various Small Fires (1964), Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966),..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

AISD Board to CodeNEXT: Remember Us

School board passes resolution recommending consideration of AISD students

"...the "vast majority" of Austin's new housing units are "small, expensive apartments and condos." Also provided is a recent..."

Dec. 1, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Downtown Puzzle: ARCH Support

Can the mayor’s plan generate millions for homeless services and permanent housing?

"...told the Chronicle that housing for homeless individuals – small, one-bedroom apartments – typically costs $100,000 per door to..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Mayor's Plan to Fix Everything

Adler to announce Downtown revitalization plan

"...the organization seeks for members of the homeless community (small one-bedroom apartments) typically costs about $100,000 per door to..."

July 16, 2017 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Ms. Veteran America's Mission to End Female Veteran Homelessness

Molly Potter raises awareness for mental health issues

"...Avenue. It's tucked away at the back of a small, fenced-in lot. Tall trees obscure its white stucco facade...."

Sept. 23, 2016 News Feature by Annamarya Scaccia

Force of Circumstance

Houston honky-tonks + Americana surrealism = Robert Ellis

"..."I used to live in these apartments near here when I first moved to Houston," whispers..."

June 3, 2016 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

A Structural Problem

Family fights eviction from Georgian Acres apartment

"...for Rocio Aguilar, her husband Yeyn, and their four small children, it's where they want to live. Being close..."

April 15, 2016 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Deconstructing ISIS

UT professors discuss the rise of the Islamic state

"...with the other sex, ISIS provides monthly income and apartments. Di-Capua explained that the availability of sex is a..."

March 1, 2016 News Post by Dina Samir Shehata

Council: Not Just STRs

Restore Rundberg, nondiscrimination also on the menu

"...customer service, including creating a web portal to assist small businesses through the development process, adding new staff, expanding..."

Feb. 26, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Top 10 Labor Stories

"...Ramiro Loa, a construction worker at the Eastside Station Apartments, highlighted the unfortunate fact that Austin's real estate boom..."

Jan. 1, 2016 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Council: Choosing Sides

An estimated 9,000 lots will become eligible to build ADUs

"...was whether to loosen the restrictions on building these small secondary apartments on otherwise single-family residential lots. Following invited..."

Nov. 27, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Headlines

"...announced the launch of a new company geared towards super-small, affordable homes in centralized locations. Kasita, the end result..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Feature

First Look: Juliet Ristorante

High design and easy sipping on Barton Springs Road

"...the bar and entrance up by gutting the second-story apartments and installing some new windows. Mozersky smartly keeps that..."

July 10, 2015 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Meet the New Neighbors

Old Austin and New can't agree on ADUs

"...of land-use activists pressing to expand the use of small living units in central city neighborhoods. The committee considered..."

June 12, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

UPDATE: Flood of Relief

In tragedy's wake, Central Texas continues to care for her own

"...County is taking the lead in helping so many small towns to the north, like Taylor, that were hit..."

May 29, 2015 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

The Dead Climb on Top of You

Third Place winner

"...the hazy kind of undarkness we get in city apartments: the blue-black light-touched dark, like sleeping inside a wine..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by P. Tyson Midkiff

Steve Adler and Eminent Domain

"...its position between a commercial and a health-oriented area. Small houses do not bring big bucks in taxes. Compare..."

Nov. 19, 2014 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM: Hitting the Street

Michael Ventura remembers how poverty bred contempt toward those he loved the most

"...and afraid of so many things – that your smallest misstep at the wrong moment could rain a beating..."

May 30, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

New York, New York

My first trip to the land of fire escapes

"...Music, from the tiny yards below to the neighboring apartments – all with cats in their windows – seems..."

May 27, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Absolutely Confabulous

Austin Public Library's New Fiction Confab focuses on buzz over brawn

"...a panoramic landscape, the New Fiction Confab is a small, abstract canvas, precise yet exuberant, a slice of what..."

April 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Park Benched

The Cost of Art, Part II: Without enough buyers for art, local galleries like Tiny Park can't make the rent

"...resources, and the Austin art market is still too small. So we will evolve."..."

March 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

The Thin White Line

Wage fight involving White Lodging moves to Council

"...job while sitting in the living room of a small, kid-filled apartment off of East Riverside, one of a..."

Aug. 7, 2013 News Post by Amy Smith

Framing the Guilty?

Houston police thought they had their man – so the evidence was no problem

"...with a name, police moved quickly to the Lakehurst Apartments to secure a list of tenants. Although several apartment..."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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