Austin leaders aim to fund homelessness system investments, add thousands of housing units
Austin officials and other local leaders are seeking to fund up to hundreds of millions of dollars in new homeless services over the next decade, based on recent proposals to scale up the region's homelessness response system.The setupRecommendations for extensive new investments were made by the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition, or ECHO, in a report from the nonprofit last summer. That review also showed the amount of people seeking homeless services around Austin continued to rise through the early 2020s, including a jump in clients experiencing homelessness for the first...