On any given night, Austin has one shelter bed for every five people who are experiencing homelessness. The city is working to fix that.
"When you look at what we've done over the last four years, we spent a considerable sum of money, at least, unofficially, over $200 million, to try to deal with the issues of people who are experiencing homelessness. We haven't decreased the amount of people experiencing homelessness. In fact, it's increased," said Interim City Manager Jesus Garza.
A homeless man is back in a Southwest Austin neighborhood iafter the District Attorney rejected felony charges against him. FOX 7 Austin's Meredith Aldis has more in this week's CrimeWatch.The city owns 38% of those shelter beds and the rest are run by nonprofit partners. According to Grey's data, Austin has one shelter bed for every five people who are homeless.
In the FY2022, there was a 92% shelter bed utilization rate with an average shelter stay of 115 days. "Over 50% are exiting to known permanent housing locations [and]12%, we know, return to the streets, or they may enter an institution that could be a hospital, a nursing home, or maybe facing incarceration," said Grey.
Grey told the council the goal is to have 1,500 beds by 2025. Right now, there are three projects underway that will produce 245 beds.
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