Homelessness 2.0: How COVID-19 has changed Austin’s homeless crisis

Homelessness

SOURCE: KVUE One of the groups hardest hit by the pandemic: Austin’s homeless. Facing starvation and possible infection, the city has offered up new services to prevent a crisis. “This might be a silver lining to what is really a brutal time in the community, in the...

Jeremiah Program Helps Mom Find New Purpose

Education, Homelessness, Local, Mentorship & Training

 SOURCE: SPECTRUM NEWS For a long time Cristina Guajardo had a vision of what starting a family would look like. “My plan when I was pregnant was that I was going to be a stay-at-home mom, and so for me it was really difficult to have to let go of that idea,” she...

I didn’t know how we were going to survive’: First families move into Salvation Army’s newest Austin shelter

Homelessness, Local

SOURCE:KVUE AUSTIN, Texas — Hectic is how Shantel Crutison described move-in day on Wednesday. However, hectic was met with a sense of security for the woman, her mom and her niece who are now staying that the Salvation Army’s Rathgeber Center. “Oh, this...

Point in Time count highlights racial disparities in Austin-Travis County homeless population

Homelessness, Local

SOURCE: KVUE AUSTIN, Texas — Community leaders are navigating how to provide more equitable solutions regarding homelessness, after the 2020 Point in Time (PIT) count highlighted existing racial disparities in the black and African American population. In the latest...

Homelessness is increasing in Austin, but so is the number of people successfully housed

Homelessness, Local

SOURCE: KXAN AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin’s Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (known as ECHO) has finished crunching the numbers for Austin’s 2020 Point in Time Count, the census of those experiencing homelessness in the community. ECHO is the agency charged with...

Glimmer Austin partner Jeremiah Program Austin is offering safe haven to single moms during coronavirus pandemic

Homelessness, Local, Mentorship & Training

SOURCE:STATESMAN Cristina Guajardo sat in her East Austin apartment on a recent Friday while trying to juggle studying for finals and entertaining her 2-year-old son, all while facing the news she was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 42-year-old...