Servicing the Public
or Public Service?
"...mayor, is a registered lobbyist at the city. He works for Austin CableVision...."
Search
Visit the Housing Works Austin location page.
181-210 of 738 results, sorted by relevance | sort by date
Aug. 9, 1996 News Feature
Headlines / Quote of the Week
"...Campus Housing: City Council members are considering a resolution to incorporate..."
April 19, 2024 News Feature
Party's Over
"...20 years I will leave. The city of Austin's Housing Finance Corporation recently purchased my apartment complex in order..."
July 14, 2023 Postmarks
City Council District 10: In Seven-Car Race, Alter Finds Center Lane
D10 appears most likely to end in a December run-off – predicting who will make it past Nov. 3 is not easy.
"...city's strategy for ending homelessness. "Converting motels" into supportive housing facilities "is a fundamental abuse of taxpayer dollars and..."
Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders
2019's Big Stories Shaping Austin's Path Into a New Decade
Never a slow news day
"...a threat to themselves or to others, and a housing-first strategy of purchasing and renovating motels into bridge housing..."
Dec. 20, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff
City Council Aims to Calibrate Camping Rules
Three-phased approach reflects growing consensus on dais
"...prohibitions on public camping, sitting, or lying. As more housing and services become available, and as the agencies and..."
Sept. 20, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders
City Hall Gets Better at the Basic Business of Budgeting
Early indicators are good, but difficult fiscal conversations linger
"...energy around its priority issue of the moment – housing and homelessness. As we reported last week, these include..."
Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Imagine Austin With CodeNEXT
Draft two brings big changes, more questions
"...one. The new version also includes more opportunity for housing growth by implementing mixed-use zones to allow some residential..."
Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
As Austin Grows, So Does the Risk of Flood
Forget the 100-year storms. City flooding happens all the time, often right in your backyard.
"...Protection Department. Later that year, voters approved a public works bond to fund the buyouts of damaged houses near..."
April 21, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine
Elgin Agrarian Community Promises Co-op Living on the Blackland Prairie
“It’s like an urban twist on traditional farming.”
"...recommendation by Jackson, his former research manager, who now works for the city of Austin's Economic Development Department. Jackson,..."
Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross
Developing Stories: Goodie Basket Development
The Grayco South Shore PUD proposal adds public benefits for height
"...for people with disablities got a requirement for accessible housing into PUD standards. "Frankly, we'd never have even thought..."
Sept. 18, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor
Lee & Carole & Brewster & All of Us ...
Five candidates for mayor jockey to be first among equals
"...questionnaire, Leffingwell says the city needs to promote affordable housing – in part to combat suburban sprawl – "through..."
May 1, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Urban Planning: A Roundup
How Austin is working toward getting better by design
"...sustainability and climate change, environmental protection, neighborhood preservation, affordable housing, economic development, and local and regional mobility."..."
Dec. 26, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor
Tracking Cap Metro's Eastward Proposal
The Green Line takes conceptual shape
"...and Elgin can advance social equity. In part because housing is cheaper farther out from Austin, many current corridor..."
Sept. 12, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
Homeless Funding Struggle
Agency overseeing Austin's most comprehensive web of homeless services scrambles for funding
"...Homeless Downtown and co-manages the Garden Terrace Residences, offering housing to the homeless. But no less importantly, Front Steps..."
June 8, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Naked City
"...the Wal-Mart/Northcross Mall controversy to the agenda, so expect fireworks aplenty. See "Point Austin," "Beside the Point," and p.20...."
Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature
Crestview at the Crossroads
Near north neighborhood faces redevelopment transformation
"...Accelerating signs of change are obvious, however. The housing prices, once attractive to first-time home-buyers, are rapidly shooting..."
Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...characterized as a "hysterical and venomous personal attack." Clark-Madison works for TateAustin, which represents many large corporate interests that..."
May 19, 2006 Column
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...those changes should be. The road expansion, in the works since 1986, is intended to serve not only Oak..."
July 15, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols
Naked City
Austin Stories
"...off without either major news from the city or fireworks from the cyclists and Eastside neighbors in attendance. David..."
June 27, 2003 News Feature
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Council member Griffith sought bond funding for affordable housing. Council members Slusher and Goodman opposed...."
Feb. 15, 2002 Column
Carrying the Burden
During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.
"...pounds of donated, perishable foods at the East Austin housing project. Now residents' council president Genaro Hernandez, his wife..."
April 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Seeing the (Green) Light
Environment, Neighborhoods Set the Tone for Place 2 Race
"...them from candidates backed by Austin's more traditional grassroots networks. That's true even in the race to succeed retiring..."
April 14, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
The Watson Way
Mayor Kirk Watson talks about challenges for austin during his next term.
"...interview with the Chronicle included air quality, transportation, and housing, as well as his ideas about the role of..."
March 31, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson
Council Watch
Council divided on Gotham condo project; Jesus Garza gets a big raise; East Austin residents voice concerns about the future of the brown building and flood control.
"...deemed to be the "Living Wage" necessary to afford housing in the city...."
Dec. 17, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson
Suburban Blight
Austinites' Escape to the 'Burbs Backfires
"...like Dawson, Crestview, and Cherrywood, which in terms of housing stock aren't all that different from Bowman Drive...."
March 27, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Out of Reach
Living Wage Eludes the Average Austinite
"...relative costs of other necessities, such as health care, housing, and transportation, since the 1960s. Now consider the salary..."
March 20, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee
Hays County Hell
Elgin Bank Victory May Mean Colonia-like Development
"...grandiose the name; in Nueces County, the court public works director says that similar problems exist in the Tierra..."
June 27, 1997 News Feature by Bob Elder
The Shark Bites Back
Mitchell Says the Eastside Needs Sharp Teeth
"...Baylor and Clotheal Haynes and Gene Watkins, former city housing officials who are currently profiting from Mitchell's redevelopment plans...."
April 18, 1997 News Feature
Over a Troubled Bridge
Neighborhoods Battle Plan to Widen Lamar Bridge
"...When consultants hired by the city's Department of Public Works and Transportation outlined options for widening the Lamar Bridge..."
