Nearly a year after the policy went into effect, Austin released a report on the early impacts of the Home Ownership for Middle-income Empowerment, or HOME, initiative.
The big picture
City Council passed the first phase of HOME—allowing up to three housing units on single-family properties across Austin—last December. The land-use update officially went into effect in February, and hundreds of applications for construction under the new rules have since been filed citywide.
As the first of those projects are now reaching completion and being sold, the Development Services Department released a six-month report on HOME covering activity under the policies from Feb. 5-Aug. 7. It's the first of many required reviews of HOME that council mandated when passing the program; DSD plans to kick off a more extensive one-year review in February.
