Homelessness, Local
SOURCE: KVUE AUSTIN, Texas — Austin City Council will meet at City Hall Wednesday to talk about homelessness and making possible changes to the camping ordinances. They plan to discuss enforcing trash clean up immediately, as well as banning camping in places that are...
Homelessness, Local
SOURCE:NONPROFITSFAILINGFORWARD Failing Forward -On the Road to Social Impact Failing Forward speaks to nonprofit leaders, boards, and funders who want to create true social impact. The short film is all about seeking data not as proof that services work but as an...
Homelessness, Local
SOURCE: COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWS Following the death of his daughter, Dalton Duffie said he lost perspective on life and turned toward drugs. Years of deepening addiction culminated with him ending up on the streets, caring less, he said, about whether he would live to...
Education, Local
SOURCE: LATINITAS As recent as this summer, Austin outranked Silicon Valley as America’s No. 1 city for startups. Yet, less than 3% of the city’s startup sector are women of color, less than 1% are Latina. At the same time, 80% of Austin public school’s incoming...
Homelessness, Local
SOURCE: KXAN AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man living at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) has a new wardrobe this week after his clothes went missing over the weekend. Billy Barnes has been living at the downtown Austin shelter for about a year. When his...
Homelessness, Local
SOURCE: KVUE Three busy areas — west campus near UT Austin, several streets downtown and 11th and 12th streets in east Austin — could be off-limits to homeless camping. This proposal comes from Austin City Council members Kathie Tovo and Ann Kitchen. There’s also a...
