Unhoused Moved to "Bridge Shelter" As City HEALs Its First Encampment

20 people living outside Terrazas Library relocated

"...Branch Library in East Austin have been moved into “bridge shelter,” in the first effort to relocate people and..."

June 17, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

Council Counters "Camp Abbott" With Plan to Convert a South Austin Motel Into a Low-Barrier Shelter

"...Oltorf and I-35 to repurpose as an 87-bed low-barrier shelter offering both temporary bridge housing and long-term supportive housing..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

City Ends Contract With Operator of Austin's Downtown Homeless Shelter

Front Steps has run the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless since 2004

"...at the ARCH and one of the city's two bridge shelters...."

July 22, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Approves California Homeless Service Provider Urban Alchemy to Take Over Austin's Downtown Shelter

But nobody seems very happy about it

"...California-based nonprofit that has limited experience running overnight emergency shelter spaces, even less of a footprint in Austin, and..."

July 29, 2022 News Post by Austin Sanders

City Ends Contract With Operator of Austin's Downtown Homeless Shelter

Chronic underperformance catches up with Front Steps

"...which also operates one of the city's two new bridge shelters, due to chronic underperformance by the organization...."

July 15, 2022 News Post by Austin Sanders

Hurry Up and Wait: Shelter Contracts Still Not Signed

Ongoing budget negotiations slow operations

"...the Austin Resource Center for the Home­less and the Southbridge shelter to Urban Alchemy and the Austin Area Urban..."

Sept. 2, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Change of Plans Provides a New Home for the Unhoused

Northbridge Shelter opens

"...Bird Lake were offered rooms at the city's second bridge shelter site, a former Country Inn & Suites in..."

Aug. 13, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Looks for Routes Out of Its Homelessness Crisis

Under pressure, the city experiments with fast and sustainable strategies

"...without stable housing – at Downtown's Salvation Army group shelter, which at the time was still sleeping more than..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?

Austin's plan to end wholesale euthanasia at Town Lake shelter remains a distant dream

"...on a Wednesday in early October; by 10:32 the shelter is down about a dozen cc's of pentobarbital, and..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Austin Animal Center Strains to Maintain Its No-Kill Status

City shelter struggles with overcrowding and volunteer dissatisfaction

"...bus taking them back to City Hall from the shelter in Southeast Austin, but shelter staffers, a couple of..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Front Steps Slips and Falls

As the nonprofit that runs the ARCH falls apart, the city's rush to replace it frustrates providers

"...– the nonprofit that has operated Austin's Downtown emergency shelter, the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless, since it..."

July 29, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Bites the Bullet, Helps the Homeless

Decriminalization advocates prevail, new shelter deal OK'd

"...existing criminal penalties and by approving a new housing-focused shelter in South Austin. Both items garnered hours of impassioned..."

June 21, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Twitter Flame War Fires Up Austin FC Supporters to Help the Unhoused

For Los Verdes, y'all means all

"...2021. While the city moved over 100 people into bridge shelters and other housing programs through its targeted H.E.A.L..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Feature by Kit O’Connell

Opinion: Prop B Passed. Now What?

We must prioritize long-term solutions for homelessness over easier-to-implement changes such as temporary shelters

"...These funds will go to rapid-rehousing and a new bridge shelter, both of which are important for moving people..."

May 28, 2021 Column by Elizabeth Heitkemper

Council OK's Motel Purchase to Help Homeless

Also on the dais: parks, trains, trails, diapers

"...Inn at Oltorf and I-35 to serve as temporary bridge and permanent supportive housing for those now homeless and..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Council Recap: A Balanced Budget, Without Much Drama

But many hours of deliberation over two days on the dais

"...neighbors of the properties the city may transform into bridge shelter or supportive housing. An amendment from CM Kathie..."

Aug. 13, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

City Council and Staff Push and Pull Over Campsites and Transit Oriented Development

OK, how about here?

"...Most of that, $4.2 million, is to open a "bridge shelter" to provide lodging, meals, and services to 400..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Recviews

"...Third World. Hot soup on a campfire under a bridge, shelter line stretchin' `round the corner -- welcome to..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Review

Nowhere to Go

The struggles of homeless teenagers and young adults often go overlooked in Austin

"...police, who promptly transported Tardy to the homeless women's shelter...."

Nov. 6, 2015 News Feature by Makeda Easter

An Unwilling Council OKs Urban Alchemy to Run ARCH

Bad news travels

"...California-based nonprofit that has limited experience running overnight emergency shelters, even less of a footprint in Austin, and in..."

Aug. 5, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Naked City

"...the first-ever rock-climbing cleanup of cliffs below the 360 Bridge. Additional cleanups will focus on Austin streets, parks, schools,..."

April 20, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

The Gotham backlash continues.

"...an analog of harmony and a primordial understanding of shelter. The pediment on a set of columns with a..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Column

The Common Law

COVID-19 and Austin – answering your legal questions (part 2)

"...am I stopped from working due to the city’s shelter-in-place order?..."

April 10, 2020 Column by Luke Ellis

City Bond Breakdown: $385 Million

Seven bond proposals for capital improvement projects near the bottom of the ballot

"...($3 million for design* of a new Emmett Shelton Bridge on Red Bud Isle, with no contribution from West..."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Feature

No Room at Austin's Animal Inn

Lack of space already dogging new animal center

"...everything a modern city could ask for in a shelter: dog "condos" complete with indoor showers and outdoor Astroturf,..."

Dec. 23, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Day Trips

Artists have tried to replicate the method of creating cement sculptures that look like wood, but few have mastered the technique like Dionicio Rodríguez

"...Rodríguez's first commissions in the city was an arbor footbridge in the park over an acequia, a canal used..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Downtown's New Year

"...long-awaited, 100-bed men's facility will serve multiple functions as shelter, resource center, and health clinic...."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Flip the Switch

"...down on the first cut on side one, "Gimme Shelter."..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Changing Face of Downtown

"...the state sunk into the project.V3 Lamar Boulevard Bicycle/Pedestrian BridgeEast of the Lamar Bridge at Town Lake..."

April 20, 2001 News Feature

Council Puts Finishing Touches on New Budget

Every last dollar

"...of funding, at a cost of $1.75 million, for bridge shelters (temporary housing) to receive residents of cleared encampments...."

Aug. 19, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

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