Founded by leaders in Austin’s disability rights community, Accessible Housing Austin! (AHA!) is excited to be breaking ground later this year for AHA! at Briarcliff. The 27-unit complex in northeast Austin will provide one and two-bedroom apartments for households...
On May 8th, the City of Austin continued its series of “Code Talks” designed to focus on how CodeNEXT, the rewrite of the City’s Land Development Code can affect and improve priority issues. The topic of this night was affordability,...
The Trump Administration released its proposed FY2018 budget this morning and it’s sending shockwaves throughout the nation’s low-income housing community. If passed by Congress, the proposal would slash federal investments in affordable housing at the Department of Housing and...
As the 2017 legislative session nears the end, the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate are still working to pass a number of affordable housing bills. During the session, state lawmakers have discussed bills related to tenant’s rights, housing...
What position do you hold, besides being a HousingWorks Austin board member? I’m the co-director of Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS), a statewide research, policy and advocacy organization which I helped found in 1988. I am a...
Roger Stewart came to the CodeNext Advisory Group (CAG) meeting at Austin City Hall last Wednesday, one day after the City published the draft maps generated by the consultants working on the revision of Austin’s Land Development Code. A...
On March 6th of 2017, Jeremiah Program cut the ribbon on its beautiful new Moody Campus, located in the Guadalupe-Saldana Net-Zero Subdivision. The apartment building was funded, in part, by two million dollars from the affordable housing bonds Austin...
On April 12, 2017, HousingWorks hosted the first of its “Affordability Forums” live on Facebook. Moderator Mandy De Mayo, Executive Director of HousingWorks Austin, started the webinar by guiding viewers through the District Analyses of issues related to affordability...
April is National Fair Housing Month! President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 on April 11, 1968. Title VIII of that landmark legislation – known as the Fair Housing Act – prohibits discrimination in the...
What positions do you hold, besides being a HousingWorks Austin board member? For the past 24-and-a-half years, I have delivered Meals on Wheels to our elderly neighbors. Since 1988, I have been one of the choir directors, at St....