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Austin Homeless News
We will collect our reporting on Austin Travis county homeless issues on this page, inluding homeless issues, homeless resources, and those who are addressing the issue.
Lisa Cox
Radio Austin Texas Station Lead and Reporter
Austin ECHO
Mobile Loaves & Fishes
Sunrise Navigation Center
Amplify Austin Day
City of Austin Homeless Strategy Office
KVUE Homeless Reporting Site
04/10/2025
Vocal Texas and it’s petition calling on the City of Austin to do more in affordable housing for the homeless in Austin. Source: Fox 7
Vocal Texas
04/06/2025
Texas HB 1925
I am reminded of Nazi Germany’s ethnic cleansing. HB 1925 would make it illegal for any Texas city to allow camping in public, a very flexible term.
04/01/2025
Housing Connector, a nonprofit that uses Zillow-powered technology to remove barriers to housing and match people with vacant units, has officially launched in Austin. In partnership with the City of Austin’s Homeless Strategy Office, Housing Connector will connect property owners and managers with local nonprofit service providers to increase housing access for individuals and families in need and help them sustain it long-term. Source: City of Austin
Housing Connector
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KVUE Homeless Reporting Site. KVUE
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03/20/2025
Housing Austin’s homeless in hotels.
Source: KUT
Housing homeless in hotels
03/14/2025
If you are experiencing homelessness and are considering moving into MLF’s Community First! Village, a very affordable and welcoming place to live, I recommend getting an appointment at CommuniCare’s specialty clinic. Their navigation in this area will get you through the process as fast and as properly as can be done.
Care Connections Clinic, 3706 S 1st. 512-978-8080
How the City of Austin is deciding which homeless encampments it is clearing, and where and how they relocate those living there. This is being done through the HEAL Initiative. Source: CBS News
HEAL Initiative
03/07/2025
Amplify Austin Day, at the link above, has some nice promotion of MLF
03/04/2025
Can Austin End Homelessness While Sweeping People Away?
Source: Invisible People
Can Austin end homelessness?
How much shorter a homeless persons life in Austin / Travis County is comparted to the national average is now clearer. A detailed, first-of-its-kind report by the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition, better known as ECHO, tallied 1,010 deaths of unhoused people in Austin and Travis County between 2018 and 2023 (even that is probably an undercount with this difficult- to-track population). The average age of death was 50 – a full 20 years younger than the typical lifespan of a person in housing.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Formerly homeless people who had housing at the time of their death lived nearly a decade longer than those who died on the streets, the ECHO study found.
“This underscores what we already know: Supportive housing is the cure,” said Danica Fraher, ECHO’s health care systems manager and lead author of the report. “Saving lives requires urgent, coordinated action across systems.”
Drug overdoses were the largest cause of death among those who were homeless. Those deaths surged from 21 in 2018 to 91 in 2023. Nearly threequarters of the drug-related deaths involved methamphetamine. Half the time, the methamphetamine contained fentanyl.- Source AAS -1/12/2025 P B1
Thanks to our reporting on Sunrise Community, Austin’s largest homeless support service being dismantled by the City Counsel because it was near a school, drugs and alcohol, etc. First reported by the Austin American Statesman, MLF’s CEO Alan Graham noticed it and was successful in intervening. Radio Austin is working with the Community for a better community.
02/19/2025
A local public health provider is helping homeless people stay out of the emergency room by connecting them to long-term health care. Central Health, Travis County’s public hospital district, runs its new bridge program out of the organization’s Capital Plaza clinic, located off I-35 near Windsor Park. There, unhoused people can get care for acute issues like wounds, allergies or illness, or be seen for chronic concerns, like breathing issues or mental illnesses. Source: KUT 90.5
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