New Year’s Day House the Homeless HUGSS Event

Be our guest – volunteers welcome – at our 32nd Annual HUGSS GIVE Party. Hot meal with dessert & packs stuffed with new clothing items & helps for Winter survival.
Music by Rockin’ Gospel – PJ Liles

NEW YEAR’S DAY, January 1st

2024 Year in Review

Boots on the Ground.

We continue to advocate with and on behalf of our unhoused neighbors. We go into camps and wherever we find individuals and families in need. We provide the information necessary to navigate assistance and to secure sustainable housing. We recently updated and added to the 60-plus listings in our uniquely portable and durable “Plastic Pocket Resource Guides.”…

The House the Homeless (HtH) Plastic Pocket Resource Guides (18th Edition)

The House the Homeless (HtH) Plastic Pocket Resource Guides (18th Edition) are available (quantities limited). Designed and implemented by HtH founder Richard R. Troxell, the copyrighted Guides are a crucial tool for individuals experiencing homelessness, providing vital information on accessing emergency numbers, food, shelter, healthcare, mental health care, veterans’ services, and more.

Special Plaque Dedication at 2023 HtH Memorial

Richard R. Troxell and Cecilia B. Blanford were recognized as Founder and Co-Founder of  House the Homeless, circa 1989, with a special plaque dedication.

The Veterans Day Parade

The Veterans Day Parade on November 11, 2024, will feature House the Homeless among its participants in Austin. The parade is set to start at 9:00 am, moving along Congress Avenue from the Bridge to the Capitol Building

Annual HTH HUGSS Thermals Party

Annual party for persons experiencing homelessness including backpacks filled with winter essentials, a hot lunch, and entertainment by The Rockin’ Gospel Band. Winter essentials such as Hats, Under-Thermals, Gloves, Scarves, Socks (HUGSS).

901 Trinity St | 12-2 p.m.

volunteers welcome earlier

Available where books are sold!

In Short Stories in a Long Journey, Richard R. Troxell provides resources, decades of stories, and details of his local and national efforts to End and Prevent Homelessness.

All proceeds benefit persons experiencing homelessness.

Livable Incomes

Richard R. Troxell created Universal Living Wage campaign over two decades ago to index minimum wages based on the cost of housing wherever a person works so they can afford basic housing; and he added a solution for those who cannot work; i.e. increase the social security stipend for those who cannot work.

House the Homeless, Inc., founded in 1989, is the oldest, all volunteer, action organization in Texas working to prevent and end homelessness. Our mission is education and advocacy around issues of homelessness. Our goal is prevention and doable solutions, including how to end to economic homelessness here and across the nation. HtH considers all homeless and formerly homeless individuals to be members of this 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit corporation. We strive to ensure that the makeup of our Board of Directors generally not fall below 50% of individuals who were formerly homeless or are currently experiencing homelessness.

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Protect and Serve (Survey Results)

On January 1st 2015 conducted  at the 14th Annual House the Homeless Thermal Underwear Distribution Party.  This survey was offered to all people experiencing homelessness in attendance. Total 277 people responded to the Survey. 1) Male:   228     Female: 46  ...

More Heroes

Last time, House the Homeless paid respect to several people who made life better for people experiencing homelessness, and who passed away recently. Fortunately, many such heroes are still alive and at work among us. In mid-2012, Ray Castellani served his...

The Homeless Veterans Hotline

Last week, House the Homeless deplored the mismanagement of a certain project, and it turns out there is more to say. Here are some excerpts from the official government webpage: The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) has founded a National Call...

Some Heroes Gone

At this time of year we hear about memorials being held in more than 150 American cities for the people experiencing homelessness who died during the year. Equally sad is the loss of people who spent their lives helping. For the first person mentioned here,...

Yes, Another Veterans Administration Scandal. Again.

It is the season of fun and jollity and celebration and family togetherness and all that good stuff, and what a bummer, House the Homeless is talking gloom and doom. Here’s the thing: the veterans who cope with these obstacles do not get a day off. Their pain and...

More on Austin’s 2013

The capital of Texas is such a happening place, and exemplary in so many ways, and of course the home of House the Homeless. Though the organization’s concerns are national in scope, it’s only natural for this blog to concentrate on Austin now and then, and not...

The VA, Corporate Profiteering, and Too Many Pills

The Veterans Administration is the second-largest agency of the U.S. government (only the Department of Defense is bigger). But big does not mean good. Can the VA’s glaring deficiencies be blamed on its size? Or should each case of malfeasance be laid at the door of...

If You Care About Helping Vets…

House the Homeless salutes an amazing piece of investigative journalism by Brian Collister and Joe Ellis of KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas. We hope you will go to the story page first, which is the source of the table shown here. That’s a good way to avoid being...