Homelessness, Local
SOURCE: AUSTIN (KXAN) Austin set a lofty goal of effectively ending youth homelessness in the city by the end of 2020, and to do so city leaders are looking to what worked to end veteran homelessness four years ago. “Austin knows what works,” said Darilynn...
Homelessness, Local
SOURCE: Austin Echo The Point in Time Count is what the City of Austin uses to identify the number of individuals experiencing homelessness in Austin, and a data point we use to determine our success in ending youth homelessness. Volunteers are needed for this...
Homelessness, Local
SOURCE: AUSTIN CHRONICLE Just one week into 2020, and it already feels like the doom and gloom that dominated the late 2010s is taking root in the new year. Our increasingly unhinged president continues to march toward a new Forever War in the Middle East; wildfires...
Homelessness, National
SOURCE: NPR Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He’s one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular...
Homelessness, Local
SOURCE: PATCH.COM AUSTIN, TX — City officials are poised to undertake the annual census of the homeless population in the Austin/Travis County area, and are seeking volunteers to help with the task. Dubbed the Point In Time Count (the “PIT Count” in the...
Homelessness, Local
SOURCE:KUT Roughly 2,500 homeless people sleep in shelters or outdoors in Austin on a given night. That estimate comes from the “point-in-time” count, an annual citywide census of the homeless community. Cities and counties must do the count on a single...
