Austin – Austin City Council will Voting at the next council meeting on whether additional funding will be allocated to the “I belong to Austin” programWhich helps Ostnet face the evacuation in paying the rent.
The program is run through Bueen SamaritanoThe Ministry of Performing Awareness devoted to helping families in health care, education, access to food, etc.
“I believe in that first and foremost, this is not a delivery. It is easy.” “We are able to be in a timely place to help the family prevent them from homelessness.”
One person was assisted through the program is Lakisha Gregory, who was facing evacuation in her apartment in July after she was discharged from her job.
Gregory said: “It is not as if I did not want to pay a rental or anything like that. I have been unemployed in a situation,” Gregory said. “[The program] Help me a lot for me and my children, because it is a difference to be homeless. “
Gregory Kxan told her that the program helped her pay the rent for the months of July, August and September. She recently got a job and said she would be able to pay the rental price on herself now.
In 2024, Travis Province recorded 13,210 evacuation files, which is the highest in history according to Building and strengthening the work of the tenant (pasta)A group organized by the tenant in Austin.
Basta information panel Reports of about 10,550 evacuation files by mid-September 2025-approximately 1000 more than during the same period in 2024.
“The increase in evacuation operations or the increase in evacuation files and the actual power movements of the tenants will lead to an increase in housing instability in the largest Austin society,” said Choshna Craig, the project manager at Basta. “We expect by the end of this year that it will be the highest year ever, and this is a huge increase in 2024.”
The level of evacuation files also refers to the community to protect the community in Austin Nefertiti Prisons.
“The problem is, much larger than resources,” said. “These individuals who have their rent. They pay more than 30 % of their income on rent and associated facilities or housing costs.”
The Austin City Council will meet on October 9 to allocate $ 4 million to the “I belong to Austin” program for the fiscal year 2025-26-an increase of $ 3.6 million allocated in the period 2024-25.