Jack Craver
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1 week ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
Two big announcements this morning: Council Member Paige Ellis will run for a third term in City Council District 8 next year AND former EMS Association president Selena Xie will challenge her for the position. Ellis's second term goes through next year. If she wants to exceed the two-term limit, she'll need to gather signatures from 5% of the 67,918 "qualified voters" in her district, which by my count = 3,395 signatures.
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2 weeks ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
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2 weeks ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
— 3 min read Over on the City Council message board CM Marc Duchen has an idea for preserving affordable housing. He points to a fund launched by the city of Dallas "that helps preserve older, low rent market-rate housing, or 'naturally occurring affordable housing.'"The Dallas Housing Opportunity Fund was started in 2021 with $6 million of seed money from the city of Dallas but has since attracted tens of millions of dollars in private investment.
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3 weeks ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
— 4 min read Today City Council is voting on a resolution to consider changes to DB90, the density bonus program that allows apartment projects to go up to 90 feet if 10-12% of the units are priced for low-income households. The resolution was very likely prompted by unease over the Acacia Cliffs redevelopment, where an old 250-unit apartment complex in Northwest Hills is being replaced by a 650-700 unit complex that will of course be much more expensive.
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4 weeks ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
— 3 min read Selena Xie, paramedic and erstwhile president of the Austin EMS Association, sent me the photo above of a flooded area at Spicewood Springs Rd. To the left is a black sedan that has gotten stuck. Says Xie: "I was responding to a call and found this car trapped in the water with people waving at me.
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City govts buying old apartment buildings can be a good low-income housing strategy. But we have to be realistic about the challenges. Sometimes the reason the housing is so cheap is that it is really shitty. https://t.co/WRcXpgWKsf
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Has any Dem elected official come out and said that "no tax on tips" is actually extremely unfair and will just prompt employers to try to shift even more of their employees' compensation onto consumers via tips?
