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Austin and Central Texas, Monitored. Broadnax considers service adjustments as ‘tough’ budget awaits. The Austin Monitor recently sat down with new Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax to discuss some of the more prominent issues facing city staff and City Council as …
Austin's previously secret 'G-files' on police misconduct are now ...
10 小时之前 · More than a year after Austin voters OK’d a measure to make them public, the so-called “G-files” of police officers accused of misconduct are now available to the public. Disclosure of these disciplinary files was a sticking point in discussions around …
Youth homelessness has increased rapidly in Austin, according to ...
3 天之前 · The number of young people experiencing homelessness in Travis County, which includes most of Austin, has risen substantially in the past four years, according to numbers from a nonprofit that tracks the issue. Since 2020, the number of people under 25 years old without permanent housing and not ...
Watson touts progress while pushing for affordability, eyeing city's ...
4 天之前 · Two years into his return stint as Austin’s mayor, Kirk Watson thinks the positive moves on housing and affordability made by the 11 members of City Council will be for naught if he can’t keep moving them forward.
Council nearly doubles payment to build water system for …
2024年10月14日 · City Council has agreed to more than double its contribution toward a water infrastructure project that will service a project that recently disannexed from the western city limits. The unanimous approval of an amendment to the cost participation agreement between the city of Austin and Milestone Community Builders increases the city’s financial contribution by an additional $5.5 million ...
The average monthly rent in Austin is now $1,500 ... - Austin Monitor
2021年10月8日 · Unless something changes, the result is, well, rapidly increasing rent prices.“Without a doubt, it is the fastest growth rate in the last six or eight months that we've experienced at any time, as long as I've been tracking growth in Austin, which has been some 25, 30 years,” Heimsath said.
Kirk Watson, who first led the city two decades ago, is elected …
Lee esta historia en español. By a razor-thin margin, Austin voters chose Kirk Watson as the city’s next mayor, electing him to navigate soaring housing costs and contentious fights playing out over how to build for the city’s growing population. Watson squeaked out a win with just 886 more votes than his opponent, state Rep. Celia Israel, in a runoff election Tuesday.
Austin economy seeing ‘growth surge’ coming out of pandemic
2021年11月24日 · Austin economy seeing ‘growth surge’ coming out of pandemic. Driven by strong job growth, in-migration and the ongoing supply of federal stimulus funds, the Austin area is experiencing a “growth surge” that economists expect to continue for the foreseeable future. That was the main message at a recent economic forecast presentation ...
A ‘climate feedback loop’: Why Austin is locked in one of its …
2023年8月14日 · This summer has been among the hottest and hardest in memory. Austin broke an all-time heat index record in June when the “feels like” temperature topped off at 118 degrees. Then, we had our hottest July ever recorded. This week, only halfway through August, it looks like we’ll surpass 40 days straight of triple-digit heat.
Austin apartments boomed and rents went down. Now, some …
2024年2月29日 · Mycah Miller has lived in a 1960s-era apartment in Hyde Park for the past two years. Last year, her landlord raised the rent by nearly 15 percent to $1,500 a month and Miller, a graduate student at the time, worried about the increased cost.