Green Doors

11/11/2024

As an organization that serves veterans leaving homelessness in our community, we're grateful today and everyday for their sacrifices ❤️

"Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

08/11/2024

Another policy change to help homeless Veterans nationally 🎉

Previously, disability pay kept unhoused veterans above the income limit to receive federal housing subsidies. Updated rules change that.

11/11/2020

10/22/2020

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson met with federal and state officials in Austin on Wednesday to discuss a new federal initiative

08/03/2020

It was not surprising when three-quarters of the house tested positive. There were 12 people in three bedrooms, with a bathroom whose door frequently required a knock and a kitchen where dinnertime shifts extended from 5 p.m. well into the evening.Karla Lorenzo, a Guatemalan immigrant who cleaned ho...

07/22/2020

Ask people camped on Cesar Chavez Street by the Terrazas Branch Library how it’s going, and you won’t be surprised by the answer. “It’s hot, very hot,”

06/15/2020

Top US military officials are seeking to reassure the nation's roughly two million active duty and reserve personnel that they are committed to addressing issues of racial inequality across the branches following George Floyd's death and protests across the country.

06/08/2020

Housing inequality and segregation was the norm in the 20th century, even if the Fair Housing Act of 1968 sought to erase racial discrimination. It continues today.

05/19/2020

The number of people experiencing homelessness in Austin hit a 10-year-high in 2019, according to a new report.

05/12/2020

The City of Austin and the local public housing authority received 10,738 applications for a slice of $1.2 million the city put aside to help people

04/27/2020

Jewish brothers in Houston, TX, Matthew and Jeremy Jason, are making face masks from yarmulkes for project called Kippahs to the Rescue

04/24/2020

In order to protect themselves and their communities from the novel coronavirus outbreak, Americans across the country are staying home. But what happens to those who don’t have one? Stephanie Sy reports on how people experiencing homelessness are uniquely vulnerable and what's being done in some ...