ACL's Move-In Ministry delivered furniture and household items to 114 individuals and families in 2024. Recipients were either people exiting homelessness or those living in situations making them vulnerable to…
Category: Homelessness
Rent Assistance Program #4 – 2024
This past summer, Austin City Lutherans provided rent assistance to support 73 households. Through this effort, our fourth rent assistance program, we distributed more than $76,000 to support individuals and…
Move-In Ministry Passes the 100-Mark
ACL's Move-In Ministry served its 100th household in February of this year. People exiting homelessness - individuals and families - have received beds, living room furniture, kitchen tables and chairs,…
Rent Assistance 2023 – Stories of Favorable Outcomes
On the first Monday in March of this year at our outside receiving line at Bread For All Food Pantry, I checked in a man whom we hadn’t seen for…
Desmond’s “Poverty, By America” – Book Review
Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, By America, takes a hard look at prevalence of poverty in the richest country in the history of the world. As a writer on inequality…
2023 PIT Count
Combatting Homelessness ACL plans to participate in the "Point in Time" count of unhoused people in Austin and Travis County on the evening of Friday, January 27. St. Martin's Lutheran…
ACL’s Rent Assistance Program – 2022
Thanks to a generous grant of $40,000 through the Austin Community Foundation, ACL carried out its second rent assistance program at Bread For All Food Pantry A young Hispanic woman…
Preventing Homelessness in Austin in the Midst of Rampant Inequality
As of February 2022, part of Austin City Lutherans' mission is to combat and prevent homelessness. John Rockefeller, the Gilded Age oil business titan, became the first billionaire more than…
INVITE for FEBRUARY 27th @ St. Martin’s
Come to be a part of ACL's kick-off for its new ministry to combat the effects of homelessness. We'll gather at St. Martin's LC - 606 W 15th St -…