Project Connect

Real estate development, property values, taxes and rent will likely rise around new train stations and transit hubs approved in last year’s $7.1 billion Project Connect bond. Austin wants to prevent residents from being pushed out.

Officials have six months to create a process to give neighborhoods a voice on how to spend $300 million to help prevent people from being displaced by any new development.

Before any shiny new train and bus lines hit the streets of Austin, the less glamorous work of planning and administration must begin.The Austin City…

Austin voters are deciding whether to raise property taxes to help pay for new train and bus lines, and third-party groups have taken the charge of trying…

Lee esta historia en español. KUT and the Austin Monitor wrapped up a series of forums this week with the candidates for five City Council seats. Among…

Lee esta historia en español. In addition to several City Council races, a U.S. Senate seat and the presidential race, Austin voters must decide whether…

Austin residents will vote this November on a new property tax to help pay for Project Connect, a $7.1 billion plan to add a downtown transit tunnel and…

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…

The $4 billion budget Austin City Council adopted Thursday includes plans to reduce the police budget by about a third – $150 million. Twenty million…