The 16-story Rebekah Baines Johnson Center opened its doors in Austin in 1972, long before high-rise residential buildings began to dominate the city’s skyline. The vision of President Lyndon B. Johnson and nonprofit  Austin Geriatric Center, Inc. (AGC), the...

On Wednesday, September 9, exactly 50 years after the day President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Housing and Urban Development Act, a crowd of visitors at UT’s LBJ Library marked the accomplishments of HUD and examined the housing and...

Part of HousingWorks Austin’s mission is to increase the supply of affordable housing through education and advocacy. On Thursday, September 3rd, HousingWorks Austin and Austin Board of Realtors (ABoR) hosted a bus tour for Mayor Steve Adler, a few members...

HousingWorks Austin is dedicated to providing the necessary research for leaders in our city to make the best affordable housing policy decisions. Our district-by-district analysis serves as a snapshot of the housing issues facing our community. For the second straight...