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Austin launches Downtown Homeless Task Force to coordinate cross‑system strategies
Summary
The Homeless Strategy Office briefed the Public Health Committee on a new Downtown Homeless Task Force that will run August–December to align city, county, nonprofit, health and state partners on upstream and street‑level strategies and deliver recommendations in December.
The Homeless Strategy Office on Wednesday told the Austin City Council Public Health Committee it has convened a Downtown Homeless Task Force to align city, county, health‑care, criminal justice and nonprofit partners around policies and partnerships aimed at reducing unsheltered homelessness in downtown Austin.
David Gray, director of the Homeless Strategy Office, told the committee the task force has two primary goals: “First is looking upstream, how do we curb the inflow of new people who are experiencing unstructured homelessness in Downtown Austin? And the second is how do we maximize our efforts to get folks who are currently living unsheltered on these streets, off the streets and into appropriate shelter housing or diversion programs?”
Gray said the city has seen an overall increase in homelessness nationwide and locally, but that downtown tent and structure…
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