Ora Houston grew up in East Austin. She attended historic Blackshear Elementary and the original L.C. Anderson High School, then went on to graduate from Huston-Tillotson University—all in the newly created district that she now proudly represents on the Austin City Council. That close connection to her home community is why she took to the ...
Yesterday, the city staff directing Austin’s sprawling CodeNEXT initiative released the latest version of the map they plan to use to redevelop established neighborhoods throughout our community. It didn’t go well. This is nothing new: CodeNEXT’s mapping process has been fraught with controversy from the start, with each of its steps coming under heavy ...
On September 9th, more than a hundred concerned Austin residents packed into a union hall on the city’s East Side to hear a panel of local experts discuss CodeNEXT and the danger it poses for that community’s families, property owners, and businesses. Click below to hear what they had to say.
Community Not Commodity invites you to attend a public forum on CodeNEXT and the dangers it poses to Austin’s longtime residents, particularly those living on the gentrification-prone East Side. WHAT: Destruction, Displacement, and CodeNEXT: Views from the East Side WHEN: Saturday, September 9th, 1:30 – 3:30 PM WHERE: IBEW Hall, 4818 E. Ben White Boulevard, ...
If you live anywhere in the City of Austin and the city council passes CodeNEXT, you could be living next door to an 18-person rental property before you know it. City of Austin Planning Director Greg Guernsey made the announcement earlier this week, in what the Austin Chronicle referred to as a “bombshell” admission during ...