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The approval was recorded as a procedural action in the meeting record; no roll-call tally or dissenting remarks were provided in the transcript.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Austin - Public Health Committee - Feb 05, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Austin City Council Public Health Committee approved the Dec. 4, 2024 meeting minutes without objection at its Feb. 5, 2025 meeting; the motion was made by Councilmember Zoe Cadre and seconded by Councilmember Velasquez.","taxTitle","Austin, Travis County, Texas","taxId",2819,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6680726,"Austin housing staff outline $137.2M city investment and pipeline for permanent supportive housing",1579,2078975,3658000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2228426-49de636085ae468929faad0de6b0d9fb&start=2078&end=3658","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2228426-49de636085ae468929faad0de6b0d9fb/thumbnail_2078975.jpg","/articles/6680726/Austin/Travis-County/Texas/Austin-housing-staff-outline-1372M-city-investment-and-pipeline-for-permanent-supportive-housing","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6680726-ae383afc41e8ccc7b7bede9adc2899ae/orig.mp4?Expires=1770448068&Signature=WNIacaMfjktv~UF-2IaHhNeVP23BhYBmsJZg3kZfje59RLnEQg0O~t-0LszsYeBF787zFGM9CpcmcTNBZT2ISTYjJfyZxHsadRJDPPc3Q9fxHlagzFmhBb236Arpk2EvtfiS38JsmgQh8m38lgGyiVy~nXNQAP9U~otlN4gTpQPHZCIWsMvIGbd6vwPx9f6iZYVBNHO7fwM-QuaQdCm96UZ8H3LdF~0Gj2mrug7FCkPzvJnGhmwesQIo4MUIAffpxqflrLXq~5grB92M2vS~KyElIPFZPkFmSvhZaOYsdW3Zb8dj8LAs0BDG~PXBNV1qCDhsoev9KsswwDtQTchetQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","At the Feb. 5, 2025 Austin City Council Public Health Committee meeting, interim Housing Director Manny DiMaio briefed members on the city’s permanent supportive housing (PSH) pipeline, recent grant awards and the financing and timeline challenges for delivering units at scale.

DiMaio said the city was recently notified of two major funding items: approximately $14,000,000 in Continuum of Care (CoC) funding coordinated through ECHO and a one-time Pro Housing Grant award of about $6,700,000 to be administered by the Housing Department over six years. She also summarized the city’s recurring federal block grants—CDBG, HOME, HOPWA and ESG—totaling roughly $14,000,000 per year, which the Housing Department and Austin Public Health administer in different combinations.

DiMaio described three components required for site-based PSH—capital to build housing, wraparound services and an ongoing operating or rental subsidy—and said the city currently has about 300 operational PSH units and a pipeline that will yield roughly 1,107 PSH units overall. She told the committee the city’s direct capital investment in those projects totals about $137,200,000, an average city subsidy of roughly $140,000 per PSH unit; that capital total excludes service and operating dollars.

She outlined funding and program components that support housing for people experiencing chronic homelessness, including a tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) contract funded with about $1,300,000 annually from the HOME block grant and a local housing voucher program funded from the housing trust fund at about $4,000,000 currently committed to 374 units across seven properties. DiMaio said the housing trust fund receives around $10,000,000 annually for such work.

Projects discussed included hotel conversions (Pecan Gardens — 78 units; Bungalows — 60 units; Balcones Terrace — 123 units, with 60 units dedicated to the Continuum of Care) and new construction or conversion projects in various stages, such as Sparrow at Rutland (operational), Katie Lofts (under construction, expected spring 2025), Libertad (198 units, 50 PSH units slated for summer 2025), Cairn Point Cameron (100 PSH units under construction), the RAS project, and five collaborative projects under the Travis County ARPA-funded collaborative (Seabrook Square 2, Safe Alliance project, Works 3 at Tillery for youth, Cairn Point Montopolis and the Urban Empowerment Zone project with the Urban League).

DiMaio said the city participates in collaborative capital stacks for five Travis County projects and that, for those five projects, the city contributed about $50,000,000 while partners contributed a similar amount; the $137.2 million figure represents direct city capital contributions across the pipeline. She cautioned that the capital figure does not include service dollars or ongoing operating subsidy; much of the operating support has historically come from project-based vouchers administered by the Housing Authority of the City of Austin (HACA), but federal voucher availability for new projects is uncertain.

On financing timelines, DiMaio said many PSH projects rely on low-income housing tax credits and bond financing. She estimated that a developer starting a 4% tax-credit PSH project today would likely open in late 2028 in a best-case schedule that includes a November 2025 lottery allocation, a financing close within 180 days and about two years of construction.

Committee members asked how the city could accelerate production to meet an ECHO model that calls for roughly 5,000 new PSH units over 10 years; DiMaio said a proactive solicitation that pairs capital dollars with committed operating and service support is a best-practice approach and that Austin Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) land and an upcoming AHFC parcel-prioritization report could inform targeted solicitations. She told the committee the department has estimates on operating subsidy needs (about $15,000 per unit per year) and committed to returning to the committee in March with sample project estimates and operating-cost figures.

The committee asked staff to return with a March briefing that includes capital and operating estimates for an example project and parcel recommendations for solicitations.","Interim Housing Director Manny DiMaio told the Public Health Committee the city has invested about $137.2 million in capital for permanent supportive housing (PSH), representing roughly 1,107 PSH units in operation or the pipeline, and described federal grants, local voucher programs and project timelines.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6680731,"Austin committee reviews homelessness strategic goals; prevention contract, HEAL and tracking discussed",1872,164735,2037480,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2228426-49de636085ae468929faad0de6b0d9fb&start=164&end=2037","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2228426-49de636085ae468929faad0de6b0d9fb/thumbnail_164735.jpg","/articles/6680731/Austin/Travis-County/Texas/Austin-committee-reviews-homelessness-strategic-goals-prevention-contract-HEAL-and-tracking-discussed","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6680731-cf2a252c41cbf31ba1888fc1a6f5ad78/orig.mp4?Expires=1770448068&Signature=V8aIV1WJMp7LLOFVpfRhuylX6kVkwzMdp7etYIPULko39gx8baPLzcVUETOCCQOJCXAjN8X8KbI6sLnhxQ~qrNYQRM5z80ET-TPaW3ehhZlEX3r0rmOJ121c~derTAY3wVixOWEyV49B3x6fPABshB7yGylEJimPDYkiH24piDVQNiHHr2686H2xVY0iu-WVw00MuXiUWRReNg2vMAxJSEhAa8HNPJCYGPGuhYf5LDFqtb1OaSczOi2DJBJyw6Yrl4dXHOqLbbL5HmWjaqOQJjDGACYxb-w6ndXCr4fhFsyu1MT~6H2BJQSl5fj9iA4p4EHPwYyjhLajtnl3cXKuGA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","At a Feb. 5, 2025 meeting of the Austin City Council Public Health Committee, Gary Pollock, policy and planning lead at the Homelessness Strategy Office, briefed committee members on the city’s FY25 strategic goals for homelessness, early outcomes from a newly launched prevention contract and ongoing efforts to track housing stability across the homeless response system.

The update recapped that the citywide strategic plan accompanying the FY25 budget establishes three homelessness-related measures: prevention (Measure HH 3.1), the HEAL encampment initiative (Measure HH 3.2) and housing stability (Measure HH 3.3). Pollock told the committee the city allocated $2,200,000 in this year’s budget for homelessness prevention and launched a contract in October with Sunrise Navigation Center to provide diversion and prevention services.

Pollock said Sunrise’s diversion contract has been in operation “a little over two months” and that recent reports show the program has served roughly 100 households to date. He said the program’s short-term success rate so far is high because early diversions have prevented immediate entry to shelter, but cautioned the office is tracking outcomes over standard windows of six to 12 months.

The committee discussed the prevention target of 75 percent, explained by Pollock as the share of people who use prevention services and do not experience homelessness for 365 days following the intervention. Council members asked for clarity on the contract’s quarterly and annual targets; Pollock said the contract’s quarterly goal is about 20 households and that he would confirm the full-contract target figure.

On the HEAL initiative, Pollock reported that 12 HEAL sites closed in 2024 and that the work “successfully connected 411 individuals with shelter,” primarily bridge shelters and the Marshalling Yard shelter; some women and transgender individuals accessed an Eighth Street shelter. He said the strategic plan includes a 50 percent target for connecting people who enter shelter through HEAL to permanent supportive housing, and that the city is developing policies with the community Continuum of Care to allow faster access from rapid rehousing to permanent supportive housing when appropriate.

Committee members pressed staff on how the city measures housing stability and returns to the homeless response system. Pollock said the community’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) records client enrollments across providers and that staff can run backend reports, but that the ECCO-managed public dashboard updates at varying intervals. He said the Homelessness Strategy Office expects to pull six-month stability data soon and that, historically, communitywide retention in permanent supportive housing has been high while rapid rehousing retention is lower.

Members asked about youth homelessness and prevention. Pollock said Sunrise has no strict age limit and can serve youth, but the diversion contract did not include a youth-specific intervention; he noted Lifeworks, the area’s primary youth homelessness provider, is engaged in prevention discussions and invited Lifeworks and school partners to apply for prevention funding. Pollock and council members also discussed outreach coordination with Austin Independent School District and the need to boost awareness of diversion services so families and youth can access them earlier.

Procedural action: The committee approved the Dec. 4, 2024 meeting minutes. The motion to approve was made by Councilmember Zoe Cadre and seconded by Councilmember Velasquez; the chair said there were no objections and the minutes “stand approved.”

The committee asked staff to return with updated stability metrics and clarified contract targets in the coming months so the committee and council can better align funding and strategic targets for prevention and rapid rehousing.","At the Feb. 5, 2025 meeting of the Austin City Council Public Health Committee, city staff reviewed FY25 strategic targets on homelessness, early results from a Sunrise Navigation Center prevention contract, the HEAL encampment initiative’s shelter referrals, and how the city tracks exits and returns to homelessness.","actionData","errors"]

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