New Data Shows Slightly Fewer Unhoused Austinites

Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) releases new report

"...addition, 922 people were living in temporary shelter, transitional housing, or one of the Protective Lodges (against COVID-19) set..."

May 21, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

“Reimagining” APD and Its Huge Budget Starts Now

City Council and the city manager try to move away from policing, but is it enough?

"...motels and hotels to be converted into emergency and permanent supportive housing. (This fiscal year's spending actually amounts to..."

July 24, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

City Council Contemplates $100 Million Homeless Spending Plan

About half would be to maintain current levels of service

"...pay for expanded services (like $23 million for rapid rehousing programs that place unhoused individuals in apartments for stays..."

May 2, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Has Much Business to Attend to Before Its Break

A 125-item agenda stands between Council and a summer break

"...The very next item (66) is the Adler/Alter plan..."

June 10, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: Stupid Games, Ugly Prizes

With the lives of Austin’s unhoused poor at stake, the city prepares to do something

"...in other cities. Instead, Austin soldiered on with its Housing First approach to focus its efforts and resources on..."

May 7, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

City Plans New Emergency Homeless Shelter, But Without Much Community Input

A Southeast Austin warehouse will soon become a shelter

"...need to get people off the streets and into permanent supportive housing and not continue to exacerbate the issue..."

May 12, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Change of Plans Provides a New Home for the Unhoused

Northbridge Shelter opens

"...South­bridge guests have enrolled or were completing enrollment in supportive housing programs; one has signed a lease and is..."

Aug. 13, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Aug. 19-26

"...SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITY INPUT SESSION Share your thoughts on the..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature

Consultants Lay Out Ways to Improve Homelessness Services

Report calls for more coordination, better tracking of outcomes

"...while only 15% are known to have transitioned to permanent housing. (Tracking unhoused youth and families is much better,..."

Aug. 7, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

City Ends Contract With Operator of Austin's Downtown Homeless Shelter

Front Steps has run the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless since 2004

"...Solutions Grant dollars distributed by the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, shows that Front Steps had only..."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Opinion: Prop B Passed. Now What?

We must prioritize long-term solutions for homelessness over easier-to-implement changes such as temporary shelters

"...has a mandate to reimagine its approach to homelessness, housing, and health. As nurse researchers working to understand and..."

May 28, 2021 Column by Elizabeth Heitkemper

Council Recap: A Big Step Forward in St. John, but Much Work Remains

Greystar, HACA selected to redevelop Home Depot site

"...Now, the site could become a mixed-use development with housing, a public park, retail, and nonprofit office space. Council’s..."

July 30, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

Austin City Council Shows Surprising Interest in Upzoning

Mayor throws a curveball in advance of Monday's new Land Development Code revision report

"...throughout the city, by right? After suggesting that three housing units be allowed on every residential lot, Adler acknowledged..."

Nov. 22, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Latest in Density Bonuses: New Teeth

"...has been a source of increasing frustration for local housing advocates who want an enforceable affordable housing benefit in..."

June 28, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

City Council Gets Its Head in the Game

With only one first-term Trump-era vet and several rookies, Council squares up

"...or hate the changes Council made to the city’s housing policy, for example, there’s no denying that the body..."

Jan. 31, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Density Bonus Program 'Interim' No More

Council takes wait-and-see approach

"...Heather Way, who is a member of both the Housing Works policy committee and the Downtown Commission, took to..."

July 5, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Then There's This: Giving Props to Austin

There's more to the bonds than meets the jerky knee

"...which would provide $78.3 million in funding for affordable housing (reduced from the $110 million community leaders had sought..."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

The Daily Hustle: 3/7/11

SoCo parking, PSH, comp plans: Your City Council preview

"...sponsor of this item creating a “Leadership Committee on Supportive Housing Strategy,” presumably to ease back from permanent supportive..."

March 7, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Homelessness in Austin Becomes a Political Game

Abbott threatens Adler: “Clean up the streets,” or else

"...capable of enforcing those prohibitions against anyone regardless of housing status. [inset-1-right]..."

Oct. 4, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Backs Away From New Camping Ban

Is consensus forming on how to move past this summer's controversy?

"...teams would attempt to connect people in camps with housing and services before moving them to temporary shelter in..."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Rebooted City Council Gets a New Chance to Fix Austin

10-1, take two

"...do have an understanding of the need for different housing types, and the need for efficient public transit, and..."

Jan. 11, 2019 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

City Bond Breakdown: $385 Million

Seven bond proposals for capital improvement projects near the bottom of the ballot

"...Health and Human Services ($3.7 million). $77.7 million 15: Housing..."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Feature

Then There's This: Bond Election Crib Sheet

Here's a thumbnail of the seven bond propositions, from transportation to film

"...Prop. 15: Housing: ($78.3 million)..."

Sept. 21, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Council: Proposed Budget Takes the Stage

City manager and budget staff lay out FY 2017 budget

"...other Council priorities, among them: addressing homelessness, mobility improvements, housing supply and affordability, density/workforce housing, creating development east of..."

July 29, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

With Six Seats Up in the Air, City Council Could Look Very Different Next Year

Ready to rumble?

"...the issue, but she still supports Pecan Gardens, the permanent supportive housing development that remains controversial in her district...."

Jan. 5, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

An Unwilling Council OKs Urban Alchemy to Run ARCH

Bad news travels

"...(case managers working to house veterans or in other permanent supportive housing programs, for example) could be excluded...."

Aug. 5, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Good Camp, Bad Camp: Council Mulls Sanctioned Sites for the Unsheltered

Helping end homelessness, or just managing public space?

"...Interagency Council on Homelessness and the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to back up their conclusion. While..."

Jan. 29, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

City Hall Looks at Retracing Its Steps on Homelessness

Back up, try again

"...these neighbors, and that our intent is to provide housing." Alter, despite not voting to lift the camping ban..."

Jan. 29, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Q&A With City Manager Spencer Cronk

In his first sit-down interview with the Chronicle, Austin's CM discusses public safety, the budget, and next steps

"...AC: With this budget, the Housing and Planning departments are being merged, and Development Services..."

July 24, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

What Is PSH?

"...Permanent supportive housing has abruptly emerged as a controversial topic..."

Dec. 17, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

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