Housing
Thursday, January 25, 2018 by Syeda Hasan
Housing
Housing repair funds, 3-D printed homes pitched as affordability solutions
For the past several weeks, nine local nonprofits, government agencies and private companies have been mapping out new solutions to the city’s housing affordability problem. Last night, they presented their ideas at the Impact Hub, a co-working space on North…
Friday, December 15, 2017 by Syeda Hasan
Housing
Council approves funding for study on housing discrimination
City Council is moving forward with plans for the region’s first fair housing assessment. The effort aims to shed light on issues of housing discrimination across Central Texas.The federal Fair Housing Act was designed to protect people from discrimination when…
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 by Syeda Hasan
Housing
As foreclosures rise, has the Greater Austin housing market finally peaked?
Realtor Barrett Raven was showing one of his clients a duplex off of Cameron Road. Matthew Weilbacher was interested in buying one of the units, maybe the entire duplex, but he was wrestling with how to make use of the…
Friday, October 13, 2017 by Claire McInerny
Housing
East Austin community looks to AISD for affordable housing
At a September meeting of the Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees, almost half of the public comments weren’t about academic issues. Instead, they were about housing. Students, parents, teachers and other community members were asking the board to…
