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Austin’s own August 13, 2025 council action notes identify $118,254,863 as a one-year service agreement with the Austin Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) to manage and operate “various housing programs” during FY 2025-2026 — not as a homelessness budget line.

The same official record shows where that number comes from: AHFC’s $80,423,356 capital budget plus $37,831,507 grant operating budget (with a separate $3,000,000 Housing Assistance Fund item). In other words, the post is taking a broad housing-program figure and presenting it as if Austin spent that amount specifically on homelessness.

Austin’s separate Homeless Strategies and Operations office describes itself as managing “over $30 million in City of Austin General Funds” for homeless-service contracts, which is far below $118 million. The city’s FY 2025-2026 budget release likewise lists homelessness allocations in specific line items such as $12 million for Rapid Rehousing, $8 million for shelter operations at the Marshalling Yard, $5.1 million for new shelter beds/case management/housing navigation, $3 million for HEAL, and $2.3 million for Permanent Supportive Housing — again showing that the homelessness funding being discussed by the city is not a single $118 million homelessness spend figure.

So the $118 million number is real, but it is being mischaracterized: it refers to broader AHFC housing programs, not Austin’s homelessness spending alone.