Tag: homelessness

November 3, 2022

Let’s Count: How you can support unhoused folks during the 2023 Point in Time (PIT) Count

AUSTIN (Nov. 3, 2022) – The countdown is on to the 2023 Point in Time (PIT) Count, and this week we’re kicking off our community’s efforts to...
February 17, 2022

Maximizing Hope | Fiercely Focused

AUSTIN (Feb. 17, 2022) - The freeze that happened in February 2021 was life-threatening for people living outside. A team of volunteers...
September 30, 2021

Fiercely Focused: CommUnityCare

AUSTIN -- When the pandemic started, unhoused people faced a lot of questions: Where am I supposed to isolate? Where can I wash my hands now that...
September 29, 2021

We must dismantle white male supremacy in homelessness services. Here’s step one.

AUSTIN (Sept. 29, 2021) -- Austin/Travis County’s Homelessness Response System, like so many across the country, is imbued with systemic...
September 15, 2021

New reports highlight racial inequities and the need for more housing

AUSTIN (Sept. 15, 2021) -- A Black Austinite is six times more likely than a white Austinite to experience homelessness, new research from the...