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Danielle Austin moved to Austin for work in 1997, shortly after graduating from college. Two years later she met Ron Austin, who had moved from Miami, and they later married. They bought a home in North Austin in 2004, but as their family grew and their needs changed, the Austins moved to Pflugerville with their two children, where they have lived for about six years.  “We needed more space and wanted to make sure we found a school district with good education programs and where athletics ...

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Online. Free. CITY OF AUSTIN "HOW TO HELP" PORTAL Looking for the right way to help your community during the pandemic? Or do you have a volunteer opportunity that you want to list? Visit the citys "How to Help" portal to make a match. The portal includes ways to help from home, donation drives, and active community engagement opportunities. Online. COMMUNITYCARE WALK-IN COVID-19 VACCINE CLINIC: ROSEWOOD/ZARAGOSA Open to anyone 12 years of age and older for CommUn...

Austin’s first-ever community displacement prevention officer, Nefertitti Jackmon (Photo by John Anderson) When Austin voters approved financing for the Project Connect transit plan in November 2020, they created along with it a $300 million anti-displacement fund, aiming to offset the increase in housing costs expected along the corridors served by new rail and rapid bus routes. While that investment makes up a small slice of that $7.1 billion pie, its the largest program o...

I had hoped to not need to write again about the hash we have made of our communitys attempts to end homelessness, but I did not expect City Hall to whiff so badly in its first at-bat since laying out its strategy to comply with the voters verdict on Proposition B. Our man Sanders gets to the heart of the policy dilemma and the facts on the ground – the unhoused poor who are living without shelter in Austins public realm have nowhere else to go. Not much we can do in the next few weeks will t...

Thursday 20 PROJECT CONNECT VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE The virtual open house is designed to welcome a new round of feedback on Austins high-capacity transit plan. Online. Free. YMCA EARLY LEARNING READINESS PROGRAM A free community program for qualifying low-income families that focuses on preparing children ages 2-4 for school, while providing their caregivers with the tools to facilitate their child’s development. Classes are offered twice a week in English and Spanish and las...

(Photo from Mayor Vico Sotto Facebook) Dubbed as Project Connect, Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto and officials from Aboitiz Foundation showed how the new system works and how it will make contact tracing efforts easier and more efficient. “Project Connect is initiated by NEDA, made possible by the data analytics team of AIM-SITE, powered by the Aboitiz Foundation, and is currently being pilot tested with our team in Pasig,” Sotto said in his Facebook post Wednesday. (Photo from Mayor Vico Sott...

Austins voter-approved $7 billion transit investment might look like a slow train coming, but Project Connects new light rail lines, commuter rail trains, and enhanced bus services will be here before you know it. When all those things are up and running, Austin will at long last finally have a mass transit system worth bragging about. Thats no offense to Capital Metro, which has spent the last 35 years working with the scraps weve given it to operate what is largely a safety net service for pe...

Next up, Tarrytown, which is just across the Colorado River from Westlake. "A pricier neighborhood, Tarrytown is not only rich in character but features large homes, spacious lots, and local businesses that cater to the upscale family neighborhood," said Kerry Sherin, a home value expert at Ownerly.  "Lots of people want Tarrytown," Levack said. "Very affluent, the schools are highly rated. Lots of social elites, consider youll pay at least $1 million, $2 million, $3 million." Heres an example...

The Texas House passed a bill that gives clearance to Project Connect tunnel construction under two parks. Few people go to the park and wonder what it looks like underneath the surface. That might change in Austin, Texas, as the state House of Representatives passed a landmark bill for the city’s future light-rail line. House Bill 3893 was passed and allows the construction of light-rail tunnels under Republic Square Park and Brush Square. Capital Metro, which is executing Project Connect,...