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May 27, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Naked City
Despite a recent chastening by the Texas Legislature, the scandal-plaguedTexas Department of Housing and Community Affairs is stonewalling on an open records request by a nonprofit developers' group.
"...the carpet as often as the Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs: In recent years, its staff has..."
July 13, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Rules That Block Apartments Near Single-Family Homes Should Change, City Staff Says
Compatibility restricts homes near amenities
"...Austin’s rules limiting dense housing near single-family homes are among the most restrictive in..."
Sept. 18, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders
Public Notice: For Further Consideration...
So yeah, let’s really get serious about housing in Austin
"...been writing for the last few weeks about Austin's housing needs, with the general theme being that we need..."
Oct. 8, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Public Notice: Good Change Is Good
Greg Casar’s affordable housing resolution
"...in City Council's new year, with an ambitious affordable housing proposal aimed at cutting the Gordian Knot in which..."
Feb. 8, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Affordability: Everywhere But Here
Council parses contracts, buys CD’s, and postpones housing
"...Greg Casar asked his colleagues to commit to affordable housing – to a very uneasy response...."
Aug. 8, 2016 News Post by Michael King
Rosewood Courts Historic-Zoning Talks Continue
Future uncertain for the first African-American public housing complex in the country
"...to initiate historic zoning on the nation's first public housing complex for African-Americans, stakeholders have held two meetings to..."
May 6, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Looking for Cheap Dirt
Trying to make housing 'affordable' has a whole lot to do with the facts on the ground
"...it – and that's why local discussions of affordable housing so quickly turn dirty...."
May 12, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Opinion: The HOME Act Will Help Keep Austin Affordable and the American Dream Alive
Affordable housing in great locations helped my immigrant parents thrive in America
"...While Austin has experienced rapid economic growth, soaring housing prices have shut out the people who could benefit..."
Nov. 24, 2023 Column by Valerie Zhang
Austin at Large: Canaries in the Shelter Line
Musicians are a useful proxy for the unmet housing needs in Austin neighborhoods
"...The whole nation has a housing shortage, and Austin's is more acute because we grew..."
Feb. 3, 2023 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Election Ticker: Say It Ain’t So, Zo
Qadri explains his GOP gigs, Guerrero explains her housing views
"...think Austin (let alone District 9) has enough market-rate housing, and if so, why? The campaign for the central-city..."
Dec. 9, 2022 News Feature by the News Staff
Public Notice: Through the Looking Glass
The strange logic of "new urban" housing policy
"...of parroting the GOP party line by opposing affordable housing in their districts. Except that,..."
Sept. 18, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro
Govalle Neighbors Rally to Save Pecan Grove
City-owned property slated for affordable housing
"...overseeing the city's redevelopment of the property for affordable housing, confirmed this week that the contractor had jumped the..."
Feb. 22, 2019 News Feature by Michael King
Point Austin: Breaking Down the Bonds
Affordable housing headlines, but there's plenty in the package
"...major bond propositions, headlined by the $250 million affordable housing Prop A, which has thus far generated the most..."
Sept. 7, 2018 News Column by Michael King
How Many Jobs Do You Need to Afford a Two-Bedroom Place?
Those making minimum wage in Austin must work 3.2 full-time jobs to afford an FMR two-bedroom place
"...released earlier this month by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a D.C.-based affordable housing advocate organization, confirmed what..."
June 30, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
AISD Sees Uptick in Homeless Youth
Lack of affordability jeopardizes housing stability for Austin families
"...continues to rise, according to new data provided by HousingWorks Austin...."
Sept. 2, 2016 News Feature by Annamarya Scaccia
Where There’s a Roof There’s a Way
City Council agenda heavy with housing matters
"...current official preoccupation: How to incentivize various forms of housing sufficient to respond to the high demand – and..."
Nov. 17, 2015 News Post by Michael King
Steering Urban Renewal
Housing Director Bill Cook
"...difficult. In his role as head of the Neighborhood Housing and Conservation Office (NHCO), Cook is caught in a..."
Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature
Opinion: Minimum Lot Size Reform Is Gaining Traction in Texas Cities. That’s a Good Thing.
Austin should follow Houston's lead and embrace this solution to address our housing affordability problem
"...would otherwise choose. Minimum lot sizes are driving up housing costs throughout Texas, at a time when our state's..."
Sept. 15, 2023 Column by Dr. Jake Wegmann
Austin at Large: It’s Good to Try New Things
We could build more decent housing for all Austinites if we rethink what’s “normal”
"...Creating decent housing for all 1 million-and-counting Austinites (and 1.1 million suburbanites)..."
July 30, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Austin at Large: The Rules No Longer Apply
Create decent housing for all Austinites (1 million and counting). Is it really so hard?
"...us and counting – could afford and find decent housing near to all the places they need to be...."
July 2, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
New Council, New Thinking on Nuckols Crossing
Differences on the dais over a planned affordable senior housing property in District 2
"...differences on the dais over a planned affordable senior housing property at 4400 Nuckols Crossing in Southeast Austin. Back..."
April 2, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
For "Active" Seniors Only
Affordable housing without transit? Council faces challenge.
"...Limestone Ridge Senior Apartments and its application for low-income housing tax credits. The proposed complex, with more than 200..."
Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez
Austin's Disappearing Mobile Home Communities
Redeveloping a manufactured housing park isn’t the only way its new owner can turn a profit
"...Not all affordable housing is created equal. Mobile homes, or "manufactured homes," as..."
Dec. 15, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine
HACA Digital Inclusion Plan Hits Two-Year Mark
Three public housing properties are now connected to high-speed internet, with a fourth on the horizon
"...As a teenager living in Manchaca Village housing complex, Christeen Wier and her family couldn't afford internet..."
Oct. 28, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Then There's This: Campaign Cash
Austin's real estate community fared well on their election investments, but affordable housing got dropped in the grease
"...Except for the narrow defeat of the affordable housing bonds, the ballot proposals proved successful, thanks in large..."
Nov. 23, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith
Attack the Block
Smart, quick, funny, and economical, Attack the Block is an alien-invasion movie that's a breed apart.
"...is a breed apart. Set largely within a London housing project, the film turns on the idea that its..."
July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Daily Hustle: 12/10/10
The Marshall debate, in speakers own words
"...Yesterday, City Council’s Austin Housing and Finance Corporation unanimously passed a controversial $2.5 million..."
Dec. 10, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar
Developing Stories
City just says no to $1 million. Go figure.
"...by the Zilker Neighborhood Association) was to underwrite affordable housing in the Zilker neighborhood, as civic-minded compensation for the..."
Oct. 5, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor
A Dickensian Prospect
Great Expectations or Bleak Housing in Austin?
"...of Northeast Austin, would provide 186 units of affordable housing for low-to-middle-income renters. But while pronouncements on the critical..."
