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Chamber conference tackles pains (and gains) of Austin businesses
Business owners and leaders gathered Thursday for the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s State of Talent conference sounded a common refrain: Life in a bustling and fast-growing population center doesn’t guarantee easy days of cash registers that ring by themselves. Rather,…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 20, 2018
How can city government help Austin parents with child care?
The high cost of day care, which can easily run $1,000 per month, is one of a number of expenses that are making the city increasingly inhospitable to working- and middle-class families. City Council is exploring ways to make child care…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Apr 11, 2018
People's Plan to combat gentrification headed to Council
Ahead of its planned fall release of recommendations to combat gentrification in Austin, the city’s Anti-Displacement Task Force has endorsed a broad plan created by community organizers. At its meeting last week the task force voted 12-1 to recommend City…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 10, 2018
Innovation team sets sights on bedbugs, overcrowding at homeless shelter
The Innovation Office earlier this month issued a set of recommendations to mitigate serious problems plaguing the 14-year-old Austin Resource Center for the Homeless at East Seventh and Neches streets. Last week, the office’s so-called i-team briefed the Downtown Commission…
Austin • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 28, 2018
Council considering another $110 million for Waller Creek park system
City Council members have expressed interest in the idea of extending the life of a tax increment reinvestment zone that was set up to fund the Waller Creek chain of parks, an ongoing project that city government is betting will…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Mar 15, 2018
Human Rights Commission offers measured support to the People's Plan
It’s no revelation that the Austin housing market is exploding and new developments are popping up almost as quickly as people are moving in. And out. To help address the displacement and gentrification Austin is experiencing, at its Feb. 26…
Austin • By Jessi Devenyns • Mar 13, 2018
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Council wants action on city-owned vacant lots
City Council is looking to more than a dozen city-owned properties as opportunities to provide affordable housing, arts spaces, parkland and economic development, in some cases looking to emulate past developments on public land, such as Mueller and Seaholm. City…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Mar 12, 2018
Council considers gentrification and 'right to return' policy
On Tuesday, City Council members got their first glimpse at a study they voted to authorize that examines gentrification in Austin. The first phase of the study, conducted by three University of Texas professors, analyzed the demographic profile of nearly…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Mar 8, 2018
Accelerator targets gap between businesses, middle-skill workers
Middle-skill job growth, specifically Austin’s problem of matching longtime residents with jobs in growing industries, is the next target for the Impact Hub social improvement accelerator. The hub, which operates from sites in North and South Austin, is taking applications…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 26, 2018
In 2018 State of the City, Adler calls for political unity at local level
Has a foreign government infiltrated the CodeNEXT process? Well, no one’s saying that. But in his annual State of the City address on Tuesday, Mayor Steve Adler said the “alleged Russian infiltration” on our nation’s politics has inflamed divisions across…
Austin • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Feb 21, 2018
Homelessness action report calls for doubling spending
If Austin wants to get serious about ending homelessness, it needs to spend about twice as much on the variety of programs that currently serve the more than 2,000 people living on the streets. That’s according to an action plan…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Feb 20, 2018
Is it really legal to walk down the street with a beer in Austin neighborhoods?
Colter Sonneville had a hunch that it might be legal to walk down the street with an open beer in most of Austin’s residential neighborhoods. It started when he noticed some big signs around Chicon and East Cesar Chavez streets.…
