Austin Area Urban League Hosts Panel on Housing Insecurity

AUSTIN – The Austin Area Urban League (Austin, TX) is hoping to raise awareness on housing insecurity.

At an Earth Day event at Huston-Tillotson University, the Urban League hosted a panel to discuss homelessness, with representatives from all over the city participating.

The Urban League’s Yasmine Smith said, “While we’re talking about the being good stewards of the earth, let’s look at our neighbors who are directly more impacted by our choices.” She also commented how it’s vital to talk about the difficulties those who face with housing insecurity deal with because of environmental impact.

At the panel, one of those very people who are facing housing insecurity, Luke Curry, commented about the misconceptions about homelessness.

“When you come around, it’s like they get uncomfortable because they don’t know. The don’t know what our intentions are because we’re homeless, we don’t have nowhere to go.”

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