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The City of Austin has joined forces with major cities across the country in a new effort to protect communities from the growing threat of extreme heat.

AUSTIN, Texas - The City of Austin has completed a thorough cleaning of a private property at 6706 Bluff Springs Road, which had been the site of a growing homeless encampment. The City of Austin’s Homeless Strategy Office and Development Services…

The Austin Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) released a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) to identify a construction vendor for the Doris Hathaway Tract Development located in Northwest Austin at 2200 Doris Drive.

The City of Austin's Homeless Strategy Office (HSO) has announced the compassionate closure of a sprawling encampment located on 37 acres of high wildfire risk land near the intersection of westbound Ben White Boulevard and Montopolis Drive. HSO…

Austin Housing and the Austin Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) celebrate the groundbreaking of The Sasha, a 60-unit supportive housing community for victims of family violence. The site will be owned by The SAFE Alliance and developed by DMA.

Austin, TX - Austin Water crews responded to a broken 16-inch wastewater sewer main located behind 5806 Cyrilla Drive. Repair crews arrived shortly after the sanitary sewer overflow was discovered at 9:32 am and worked to stop and contain the…
Austin, Texas – The City of Austin will activate Cold Weather Shelters (CWS) overnight Tuesday through Thursday, Feb. 18-20, as temperatures are forecasted to dip into the low 30s and 20s nightly during this period. Overnight temperatures on Monday…
With temperatures forecasted to dip into the 30s overnight Sunday into Monday morning, the City of Austin will open overnight Cold Weather Shelters (CSW) Sunday night, Feb. 16, 2025. Registration for shelter will occur between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. at…
AUSTIN – Austin Water’s Wildland Conservation Division plans to conduct a prescribed burn on approximately 288 acres of the Water Quality Protection Lands on Thursday, February 6. Smoke may be visible northeast of RR 3237, north of FM 150, south of…