Last Thursday, the Austin City Council voted to amend ordinances on soliciting, camping, sitting and lying in public spaces. Here is what to expect when the amended ordinances go into effect on or about July 1. Learn more at a community meeting next month with APD.
Category Archives: Homelessness
City Council could repeal or narrow controversial homeless laws
The council plans to consider repealing the city’s panhandling ordinance and narrowing the city’s camping ordinance and its “no sit/lie” ordinance.
Austin City Council could discuss and repeal panhandling ordinance
Discussing Austin City Council’s consideration to repeal and amend city ordinances, hear from Ann Howard, Executive Director of the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO), speak on the importance of increasing housing and services while maintaining public health and safety:
Editorial: Keep the focus on what homeless people need: Housing
Austinites share a desire to see homeless people get the help they need. The community deserves a larger discussion on how we get there — not just through ordinances, but through housing options, funding priorities and better coordinated efforts to help people out of homelessness.
Support Funding for Immediate Shelter & Services; Community Input Critical Before Repeal of Ordinances
The Downtown Austin Alliance submitted a letter to the Mayor and Austin City Council on June 3, urging the Council to pass item 49 on the June 6 agenda to provide immediate emergency shelter to those experiencing homelessness.