Austin Mayor Says the Key To Keeping the City 'Weird' Is Ensuring a Robust Supply of Housing—or People 'Will Go Elsewhere'
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson has said that the key to living up to the city’s famous motto to stay "weird" will be to ensure that the city's housing supply keeps pace with demand.
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Short-term rental regulations in Austin approved by city council
Austin City Council has approved some changes ... through a better system of short-term rental regulation in this city," Mayor Kirk Watson said in the meeting. Council voted to push back the ...
Austin City Manager finalists share visions for city as council nears vote on the position
Both candidates come from a city with a council-manager form of government like Austin has. While in some cities the ...
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Austin rents tumble 22% after building spree
Yasmine Acebo makes her living by hooking up renters with deals on Austin ... for mayor in 2022. Then came the flood of new apartments. Developers dumped almost 50,000 rental units on the city ...
Carole Keeton, trailblazing Texas politician and state's first woman comptroller, dies
Carole Keeton, the first woman elected mayor in Austin and the first woman to be Texas comptroller, died this week. She was 85. Her son, Brad McClellan, told the Austin American-Statesman, she died ...
Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who served as Austin Mayor and in statewide office, dies
Strayhorn served as Austin's mayor from 1977 to 1983, before serving as a railroad commissioner in the 1990s and as Texas comptroller from 1999 until 2007.