Ending Community Homelessness Coalition

The St. David's Foundation has awarded ECHO a $2 million grant for a two-year 12-person project to better connect marginalized Austinites with housing services.

Roughly 2,500 homeless people sleep in shelters or outdoors in Austin on a given night. That estimate comes from the "point-in-time" count, an annual…

The Austin City Council delayed a $7.8-million plan to buy and renovate a Montopolis-area hotel and retrofit it to house Austinites transitioning out of…

ECHO, the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition, says the addition of 200-300 short-term motel units would substantially impact the community of…

The Austin City Council approved a new contract of Front Steps – the operator of the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless. The agreement, which was…

Update: The Austin City Council approved ECHO's Action Plan to End Homelessness at its April 26 meeting.________________________________________The…

An effort to reduce crowds loitering outside the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless has made downtown safer, local service providers say. A 30-day…

Service providers are taking a new approach to addressing homelessness in downtown Austin, focusing particularly on the area around the Austin Resource…

Austin City Council is looking at using city-owned buildings as temporary homeless shelters.The idea comes from Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo, who says…

Homeless advocates in Austin got a $1.1 million infusion from the federal government to advance a relatively new, market-based approach to getting people…