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....
For Jeremiah Program Austin and dozens of young mothers, March 6th was a day they had been waiting for. The program officially opened its nearly 50-thousand square foot Moody Campus in the Guadalupe-Saldana Net-Zero Subdivision of East Austin. A...
As the process for rewriting a new Land Development Code for Austin continues, City officials are making great efforts to ensure that residents have opportunities to learn the basics about it, ask questions and provide input. The series of...
Rain did nothing to dilute interest in an event Saturday morning, March 4th at the Bullock Museum. “Traffic Jam!, a Mobility Solutions Workshop for Central Texans” drew a crowd of hundreds. The event sponsored by Capital Metro and the...
As the self-described “Live Music Capital of the World” Austin enjoys a reputation of being one of the most desirable places to live in the country. But, that reputation is currently in jeopardy. As the Executive Director of Ballet...