Summary
Austin currently has about 1,475 emergency shelter beds for people experiencing homelessness.
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Our series on homelessness continues with an overview of Austin’s emergency shelter capacity, a key component of our city’s homelessness services system.
As a reminder, our goal with this series is to
Explain (as simply as possible) exactly how our homelessness services system currently works and where there’s room for improvement
Identify solutions by highlighting organizations both within and outside of Austin city limits who are actually making progress on this difficult issue, which is impacting people across the country.
Keep scrolling for info about our emergency shelter system, including details about where we’ve made recent progress… and what’s still to come.
This 1,426 bed goal comes from a 2020 report, called Investing For Results.
To learn more about the Esperanza Community, check out this podcast episode and short video we produced.
That analysis is expected to be released later this summer. The Austin Common will be publishing a summary once it’s complete.
