Affordable Housing

Austin has chosen a front-runner among proposals for redevelopment of city-owned land at 12th and Red River streets. The idea is to build one tower with residential space and the other with office space.

Staff created the map in response to a resolution City Council passed two years ago, which asked the city to come up with a program to better connect low-income residents with affordable housing.

As the Austin City Council looks at ways to combat gentrification and promote more affordable housing ahead of a proposed transit expansion, a new mapping…

Austin voters will decide in November whether to raise property taxes to help pay for Project Connect, the transit expansion plan. Leaders promise the…

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The Austin City Council released the second draft of its land development code Friday. It's the latest step in the city's more than half-decade-long…

Here’s a statement that will shock very few in Austin: The city is becoming increasingly harder for renters to afford.That’s according to an annual report…

The Texas economy kept humming along in 2019, though at a slightly slower tempo than in the last few years. And while Austin will continue to grow in…

Malik Julien has a bedroom and bathroom all to himself. But that’s not what sold him on his apartment in the East Riverside neighborhood.“What was really…

The University of Texas is rising – or rather, buildings on West Campus are now allowed to go higher.The Austin City Council voted Thursday to increase…