News Roundup: Rodney Reed, the Austin Marathon, and Council

Efforts to free Reed continue; Council talks housing

"...Will Don Zimmerman be able to prevent an affordable housing development from being built in his district? ... and..."

Feb. 16, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Bill Seeks to Dodge Section 8 Renters

State Sen. Perry's bill would overrule Austin's ordinance

"...discrimination ordinances, measures meant to grant low-income renters increased housing options...."

Dec. 29, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Daily Hustle: 12/7/10

Your City Council catalog for this Thursday

"...a few real doozies: the E. 12th permanent supportive housing controversy, an unpopular zoning request along Barton Springs, Central..."

Dec. 7, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Daily Hustle: 12/3/10

Marshall arms race heats up

"...it earlier this week, the Marshall Apartments permanent supportive housing proposal has absolutely gone bananas, with press releases, neighborhood..."

Dec. 3, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Architect

This well-meaning social drama about the intersecting lives of a dysfunctional, upper-middle-class family in suburbia and the residents of a deteriorating public-housing project is flimsy at best.

"...family in suburbia and the residents of a deteriorating public-housing project is flimsy at best, largely due to the..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

City of God

City of God, like the Rio de Janeiro housing project for which it’s named, is often grim and dire, but the film is also imbued with hope and transcendence.

"...road? Because in the City of God – a housing project in one of Rio’s poorest slums – the..."

March 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Know Your Rights! The City Can Help

Workshops aimed at housing, employment discrimination

"...In the wake of 97 employment complaints and 34 housing complaints filed in 2020, the office's workshop series (still..."

Aug. 6, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Public Notice: Devil’s in the Details, Part 47

Why can't we walk the walk on housing?

"...Remember cheap Austin? Before ever-­escalating housing costs became a permanent part of our collective landscape?..."

April 2, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Council Recap: It's a Long Way From City Hall to the Landfill

Tensions over trash, and wheeling and dealing to Save Muny

"...Lions Municipal Golf Course and preliminary approval to new housing at the former Graffiti Park...."

Feb. 21, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

A Council’s Work Is Never Done

Agenda features budget, the future of AE, and a whole lotta housing

"...Rent Is Still Too Damn High: Items 51 (on housing co-ops), 53 (a "displacement" task force), 54 (source-of-income discrimination),..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Meet the Candidate: Heather Way

Way says she'll focus on the growing economic divide and affordability crisis if elected

"...law, starting with a fellowship providing legal assistance on housing issues to low-income families and people with disabilities, to..."

Jan. 8, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Checking Our Six

Veteran Housing Assistance in Austin

"...Front Steps SSVF program provides short-term, rapid rehousing assistance to very low-income veteran families to obtain stable..."

July 17, 2015 News Feature

Council: Stooges in the House!

Expect debate over TNCs, West Campus parties, and housing vouchers

"...• Affordable housing proposals from Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole (Items 43..."

Oct. 3, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

The Quest for Nine Votes on Land Use Code

Council proposes revising Austin's strict compatibility standards

"...transportation corridors – so long as they include affordable housing. The other two policies were adopted Dec. 1; the..."

Dec. 16, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Skid Row Marathon

Homeless runner documentary goes from sleeping rough to pounding the pavement

"...works out of the Midnight Mission, a nonprofit center housing and treating addicts and alcoholics trying to get clean..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Leave No Trace

Into the woods in this moving family drama

"...accommodating than one might expect, the system finds them housing and work on a remote tree farm. The experience..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

CodeNEXT’s Density Bonus Program

Affordable housing from CodeNEXT

"...Platting Commission for a presentation on the latest draft's Housing Affordability and Density Bonus Program. This section, like several..."

March 30, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Salesman

Gripping drama from the director of A Separation

"...husbands and wives struggling to communicate and find affordable housing and choose forgiveness over revenge – these are not..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Moonlight

There's magic in this Moonlight

"...identity in the sun-drenched hell of the Dade County housing projects, circa the 1980s. It’s the story of a..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dheepan

Cannes Palme d'Or winner about Tamil refugees in France

"...This readymade family is sent to one of the housing projects in the banlieues, or suburbs, that is overrun..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Men & Chicken

Danish black comedy is a nimble tone-shifter

"...to the island to find a dilapidated former sanitarium housing three more half-brothers, Franz (Malling), Gregor (Kaas), and Josef..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Wolfpack

This doc makes us privy to a family that's like none we've ever seen before

"...isolation within the stark, grimy confines of a public housing apartment on New York’s Lower East Side. Home-schooled and..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dear White People

This idea-packed comedy pokes holes in the notion of a post-racial America.

"...Railing against the university’s Randomization of Housing Act which had the effect of breaking the color..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red Hook Summer

Spike Lee returns to Brooklyn for this summer in the life of a 13-year-old.

"...his affection for the inhabitants of the Red Hook housing projects, New York City’s largest cluster of projects, is..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

HOME is Where the Heart Is

Housing Opportunities for Musicians and Entertainers provides aid.

"...The paucity of affordable, centralized housing for Austin musicians is a growing problem Chronicle news..."

Aug. 6, 2012 Music Post by Anne Harris

The Check's In the Mail: Grant Awarded to Austin

Region gets gov't grant for housing and development

"...The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced yesterday that it will..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Post by Eric Pickhartz

City Hall Hustle: Across The Universe

Housing advocate Troxell provides chapter and verse on living wage

"...a formula to calculate the ULW indexed to local housing costs, "the number one most expensive item in the..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Daily Hustle: 10/11/10

House the Homeless founder now author

"...With a recent presentation on permanent supportive housing – a strategy that Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze..."

Oct. 11, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Brick Lane

Brick Lane shows us the life of a Bangladeshi woman, who moves to London to marry a man she's never met, keep house, raise a family, and eventually act on her squelched yearnings.

"...an anthropological study of life in modern-day London council housing, and a commentary on Muslim life after the attacks..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Bra Boys

Russell Crowe narrates this insider's documentary about Australia's Bra Boys – a family of brawlers whose exploits are legendary.

"...of wayward male souls from Maroubra, Australia’s impoverished ocean-side housing projects, or a notorious gang of tattooed thugs ruling..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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