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A recent study found nearly half of Austin's renters are paying a third of their paycheck (at least) on housing. Another showed renters need to make $26 an hour to comfortably afford a one-bedroom here.
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This month, the average rent for an apartment any size is $1,679 a month — $34 less than it was this time last year.
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The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs will take applications for rental assistance until noon on Thursday, almost two weeks earlier than planned.
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To answer that question, we need to go back to World War II and the era of federal rent control.
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Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin all ranked among the top 10 cities for new eviction filings in early April, among the 31 cities tracked by Eviction Lab.
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The county received more than 3,300 applications in the first week alone. By comparison, fewer than 1,000 people applied over six weeks to a similar program last year.
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Hays County is losing another $1.7 million in COVID-19 rent relief. Here's where the program stands.Advocates warned last month that the county could continue to lose money until it's all gone.
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Hays County is one of 14 entities across the country that's having funds taken back by the federal government for failing to meet spending deadlines.
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A recent audit of the program found that, as of Sept. 30, Hays County spent about $166,000 — or 2.4% — of the nearly $7 million it was awarded from the federal government.
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Many families are under financial stress, parents see kids seriously behind in school, huge rent bills and looming evictions and delayed medical care has negative consequences, to name a few.