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2026 State of the System

ECHO published the 2026 State of the System Report, our community's annual review of the people, programs, and progress in the Austin/Travis County Homelessness Response System (HRS). Cover art by Jameson Behrens (Art from the Streets).

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FY 2026

CoC NOFO Submitted

ECHO submitted the Priority Listing and the Consolidated Application on September 30, 2026. ECHO is grateful for the support from CoC applicants, Leadership Council, and all our partners who contributed to this application.

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New Zine

Messages of Hope

Austin Homelessness Advisory Council (AHAC) members created this zine together for anyone in our community experiencing homelessness to share messages of hope in the form of art, poetry, and other writings.

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Redesigning

Coordinated Entry

ECHO was recently tasked by Leadership Council with redesigning our community's Coordinated Entry System, the front door to our Homelessness Response System. Click to learn more about why and what it will mean for our community.

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Fast Facts

Community partners connected more than 10,000 people to permanent housing between 2017-2022

By 2026, we expect about 1,000 new Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) units to come online

A Black Austinite is 6x more likely to experience homelessness than a white Austinite

About 2/3 of unhoused people report they were born/raised or last housed in Austin/Travis County

10% of unhoused people are unaccompanied youth (age 13-24); 11% are families with children

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