Category: System Progress

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August 19, 2022

Five Takeaways: Racial Disparities and Needs & Gaps in Austin’s unhoused community

AUSTIN – It’s getting harder to afford a place in Austin, and longtime Black and Hispanic/Latinx residents face the most severe effects,...

Austin skyline lit up in the evening, looking over Lady Bird Lake, with the words "Austin Street Outreach Collaborative" and logos for We Can Now, Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center, and Urban Alchemy

April 19, 2022

Austin Street Outreach Collaborative announces inaugural members

By Chris Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTG7FoJjEMM AUSTIN (April 19, 2022) –The Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) is excited to...

Image shows a roadmap zoomed into Austin with the words "Dig into Data: Using the Austin/Travis County Homelessness Response System Dashboard"

October 21, 2021

Dig into homelessness data using new dashboard

By Chris Davis

AUSTIN (Oct. 21, 2021) -- A new dashboard provides direct access for the first time to regularly-updated in-depth homelessness data covering housing...

February 3, 2021

HUD renews $11 million in CoC program funds to 10 Austin organizations

By Chris Davis

HUD NOFA

AUSTIN, Texas (Feb. 3, 2021) – Ten homeless service providers in Austin/Travis County will be renewed for funds of more than $11 million in...

December 14, 2020

Slowing the jail-to-homelessness inflow

By Chris Davis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUSTIN, Texas (Dec. 14, 2020) -- Travis County Commissioners voted last week to approve an agreement with the Ending...