The National Equity Atlas is an incredible new tool that looks at various economic indicators through the lens of race and ethnicity. Developed in partnership between the PolicyLink and USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE), the online...
HousingWorks Austin is working hard to ensure that affordability is integrated into CodeNEXT, the process to rewrite Austin’s out-of-date and cumbersome Land Development Code (LDC). The product of CodeNEXT will be a Land Development Code that better...
HousingWorks Austin is grateful for support from Community Partners, city leaders and passionate advocates across the city. Building on the success of 2013 (including the overwhelming voter support for $65 million in affordable housing bonds!), we focused on the following...
In December 2014, at the urging of HousingWorks Austin and a wide coalition of housing advocates, Austin City Council unanimously approved an ordinance adding “source of income” to the list of locally protected classes. The new ordinance outlaws discrimination...