New East Austin apartment community first of its kind in Central Texas for homeless [kvue.com]

Alicia Doktor 1/29/1812:00 PM

AUSTIN - There's a new approach to solving homelessness in Austin.

It has to do with a one-of-a-kind apartment community that has onsite mental health services plus drug and alcohol treatment.

It's called Housing First Oak Springs.

At a press conference at the future site of the apartment community in East Austin on Oak Springs Monday morning, Joyce, a former homeless Austinite, talked about what would have happened if she didn't get help.

[For more on this story by Jenni Lee, go to http://www.kvue.com/news/local...r-homeless/510621550]

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