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Now Available

2024 Annual Report

ECHO's 2024 Annual Report is available now! Learn more about the steps we took with our community in 2024 to build a future without homelessness.

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Lived Expertise

Welcome, AHAC!

The Austin Homelessness Advisory Council (AHAC) began meeting at ECHO in June. ECHO will coordinate the group's biweekly meetings to provide feedback on projects and priorities from the City of Austin, ECHO, and service provider partners.

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2025 PIT Count

Data Released

On one night in January, hundreds of people set out in cars and on foot in the early morning hours to deliver a message to people without homes: You count. Explore what we learned about homelessness in our community during the 2025 Point in Time (PIT) Count.

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Updates

HMIS Vendor Transition

Our community is transitioning to a new vendor for our Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) this fall, and in the short term it will mean some changes to training and onboarding schedules. As the HMIS Lead Agency, ECHO will continue to provide updates as the transition happens.

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Fast Facts

Community partners connected more than 10,000 people to permanent housing between 2017-2022

By 2026, we expect about 1,000 new Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) units to come online

A Black Austinite is 6x more likely to experience homelessness than a white Austinite

About 2/3 of unhoused people report they were born/raised or last housed in Austin/Travis County

10% of unhoused people are unaccompanied youth (age 13-24); 11% are families with children

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