Austin city council has approved a resolution directing the city to find funding to keep the Marshalling Yard emergency homeless shelter open.
Austin City Council has approved a resolution directing the city to find funding to keep the Marshalling Yard emergency homeless shelter open beyond its slated March 2025 closure date.
"Our system in Austin is short in all the areas," The city of Austin's Homeless Strategy Officer David Gray said. "We don't have enough street outreach workers, we don't have enough shelter beds, and we don't have enough permanent housing beds." "We have a commitment to our clients that we are not going to exit them back into the street," Gray said. "So we've had to stop intake at all of our shelters in order to reserve beds at other shelters in the system."The city council took the first step towards that extension Thursday, directing the city manager to find money to keep the emergency shelter open.
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