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April 19, 2021

When Sleeping Became a Crime

by Rhie Azzam Morris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TScNLhwkifA I was 23 years old the first time I experienced sleeping as a crime in...
April 7, 2021

Vote NO on Prop B

All Austin voters have a choice to make in the coming weeks. The Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) is asking you to make the humane,...
March 31, 2021

What We Talk About When We Talk About Visibility

By Summer Wright For a period of my life, my choice to be visible as a homeless trans woman boiled down to whether or not I needed to leave my...
March 16, 2021

Social workers, trauma-informed care, and the winter storm

AUSTIN, Texas (March 16, 2021) - As the bitter cold set in across Austin and Travis County on Valentine's Day weekend, government and nonprofit...
February 26, 2021

White privilege in Austin’s unhoused community

by Alberta Phillips, Chair of the ECHO Board of Directors A blistering winter storm that swept through the state this month left millions of...