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Open Letter to Gov. Abbott — October 2019
Response to Mayor Adler’s United Efforts to House the Homeless
Response to Mayor Adler’s United Efforts to House the Homeless AAS, “United Effort Needed to House Austin’s Homeless,” ‘this goal can only be reached if the city works aggressively with non-profits and private developers to make more low-income housing available...
Austin American Statesman Opinion 6/21/2019
Opinion: To address homelessness, we must plan and compromise https://www.statesman.com/opinion/20190621/opinion-to-address-homelessness-we-must-plan-and-compromise
IH35 BE SAFE BE SEEN — Humanitarian Outreach Project to “Winterize” Homeless Folks Living Under our Bridges-KVUE
Be Seen Be Safe Campaign This is the first media attention on this multi-pronged campaign, that is starting in Austin but has serious national implications (possibly 100,000 people living under our bridges may be affected) as the nation starts to renovate our nation’s...
Commentary: How Austin could atone for policies that harm the homeless
Amicus (Friend of the Court) Brief- This started when the police shot Mr. Michael Brown in Ferguson MO. Under the Obama administration, the DOJ investigated and found that Municipalities such as that in Ferguson were attempting to balance their budgets by giving out...