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How should Austin address homelessness? The city wants your input.

An encampment for people experiencing homelessness under State Highway 71 in South Austin.
Gabriel C. Pérez
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KUT

Austin's Homeless Strategy Division wants your input on how to best tackle homelessness as it plans to spend more than half-a-billion dollars to get people off the street within the next three years.

Residents can share ideas at two online town halls from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday:

The city said it also plans to update Austinites on ongoing housing efforts and the voter-backed reinstatement of the camping ban, which went into effect nearly a year ago.

The meeting comes less than a week after the city formally ended its partnership with Front Steps, the nonprofit that had run the city's homelessness shelter since it opened in the mid-2000s.

Correction: An earlier version of this story said the town halls were taking place on Thursday and Friday.

Andrew Weber is a general assignment reporter for KUT, focusing on criminal justice, policing, courts and homelessness in Austin and Travis County. Got a tip? You can email him at aweber@kut.org. Follow him on Twitter @England_Weber.
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