From 2019 to May of this year, the city allocated $179 million toward homelessness across more than 100 contracts. But auditors struggled to piece together a full picture of the city's agreements.
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A week after city-owned properties in their council districts were identified as possibilities for sanctioned homeless encampments, Austin City Council members Paige Ellis and Natasha Harper-Madison made a formal request aimed at keeping that from happening.
The two council members on Tuesday issued a plea for the city to rethink its plan to create sanctioned encampments, referring to it as a band-aid tactic and making the case for other options, like supportive housing.
Ellis and Harper-Madison were previously part of a unanimous council vote in May that directed staff to look into the feasibility of identifying city-sanctioned sites where homeless people could live following voter approval of a citywide camping ban during the May 1 election.