Over $179 million in homelessness spending has been approved by the Austin City Council since 2019, but a complete list of contracts for it is unavailable.
The Austin city council has multiple top-level items on its August agenda including setting the budget and property tax rate as well as identifying locations for sanctioned homeless encampments.
A month and a half after it sprouted up, most of the homeless encampment on the grounds of Austin City Hall still stands. Police removed a portion to make way for a construction project.
Days after Austin voters affirmed a ballot proposition reinstating a public camping ban, the Texas House took the first step toward banning the practice statewide.