TOOF In The News

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Austin American Statesman

How colorful cabins and a Grateful Dead spirit are helping people out of homelessness
July 2024

Providing Shelter, Job Training, and Community for Those in Need

November, 2023

Effort to fight homelessness marks ribbon-cutting for 50 individual emergency shelters

May 12, 2023

TOOF and Findhelp Films Join Forces (Again!) to Tell The Story of Esperanza

The Other Ones Foundation and findhelp films (formerly Resolve Magazine) have joined forces to tell the story of the Esperanza Community. The Esperanza Community is a sanctioned encampment in Austin, TX where TOOF and the residents of the site are working together to build a transitional shelter community where unhoused individuals can find the stability they need to move on to a safer and more fulfilling life. Stay tuned as this incredible story unfolds!

WATCH HERE:

Inside the community of ‘tiny homes’ sheltering unhoused Austinites

May 4, 2023

Austin American Statesman

Travis County approves $3 million to build supportive housing for homeless population

February 8, 2023

More shelters arrive at former TxDOT yard now providing transitional housing

November 30, 2022

Austin nonprofit working to keep people on path to permanent housing

November 2, 2022

The Other Ones Foundation Expands Board of Directors With a Focus on Community Engagement and Relationship Building

September 16, 2022

Businesses help nonprofit build transitional shelter at sanctioned homeless encampment

August 18, 2022

The Next Chapter of The Other Ones: Election Trailer

June 24, 2022

Calls Mount for $300M Affordable Housing Bond in Austin

June 22, 2022

100-unit supportive housing project clears Austin Planning Commission over Hancock neighbors' opposition
May 25, 2022

TOOF voted "Best Humanitarians for the Houseless"
May 2022

Advocates urge Austin, Travis County leaders to take action on drug-related deaths at community town hall
May 4, 2022

City’s homeless strategy officer discusses fight to end homelessness

March 15, 2022

Esperanza Means Hope

February 1, 2022

Where Is Chris Baker Now? The Not-For-Profit Founder From 'Queer Eye' Season 6

January 11, 2022

The Other Ones: One organization in Austin, TX attributes homelessness to a ‘catastrophic loss of community,’ so they set out to build one.

November 11, 2021

Officials, organizers break ground on transitional shelter complex at State homeless campsite in Austin
September 27, 2021

Life and Death in a Texas Homeless Camp
August 2, 2021

A DIY Approach to Helping the Unhoused Pays Off at Camp Esperanza
July 23, 2021

Fox 7 Austin

'The Other Ones Foundation' raising money for transitional shelter

July 3, 2021

June 24, 2021

As Camp Get Demolished, New Shelters Are Built For Austinites Experiencing Homelessness
April 16, 2021

The Other Ones Foundation & Austin Indie label Sky Titan Media team up for Charitable Collaboration Music For Good
April 15, 2021

Transforming Tent Cities With Windows and Doors
December 4, 2020

Groups combine efforts to create food delivery service for homeless

April 16, 2020

Homeless veterans earn pay to clean up abandoned encampments across Austin

February 26, 2020

Austin American Statesman

Austin pumps $720,000 into homeless work program

October 3, 2019

Austin will expand program that hires the homeless to clean up homeless encampments

October 3, 2019

Spectrum News

Organization Employs Homeless to Clean Up Thousands of Pounds of Trash

August 24, 2019

New city program helps homeless, cleans parks

December 5, 2018