{"id":35637,"date":"2025-11-05T01:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35637\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:44:07","slug":"austin-election-results-voters-weigh-in-on-prop-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35637\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin election results: Voters weigh in on Prop Q"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin voters will decide the fate of Proposition Q, a controversial city-backed plan to raise more than $100 million in property tax revenue to pay for homeless services and other city projects.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 13% of voters cast an early ballot in the off-year election, which typically draws in just a sliver of the electorate in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the measure say the tax rate increase is necessary to shore up a budget shortfall at City Hall. Opponents say the increase isn&#8217;t necessary to maintain city services and that the measure would make Austin less affordable.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. The results below will be updated after polls close at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/26032910\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"table visualization\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin voters will decide the fate of Proposition Q, a controversial city-backed plan to raise more than $100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,1501,10532,134,133,17941,1223,10533,21482,22669,4129,2062],"class_list":["post-35637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-city-council","tag-austin-election","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-property-taxes","tag-austin-texas","tag-austin-tx","tag-election-results","tag-hays-county-election-results","tag-kirk-watson","tag-prop-q"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}