Austin to turn hotel into permanent shelter for unhoused people
Austin, January 29 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Texas, the Austin City Council has voted to buy a hotel that will serve as permanent housing for dozens of chronically unhoused people, and use money taken from the city’s police budget to provide resources for the people who will live in the hotel.
The Austin city council back in August voted to cut some $100 million from the police department’s budget. A recurring $6.5 million payment from those cuts is being set aside to fund permanent supportive housing and other services for unhoused people.
