Voters in Austin overwhelmingly blocked a property tax increase that would have raised tens of millions of dollars to support homeless people and pay for other services, a rejection of increased municipal spending in one of the most reliably Democratic cities in Texas. <\/p>\n
The proposal, which had easily passed the city council, would have generated an additional $109.5 million in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The measure required voter approval because it would have increased property tax revenues beyond a state-imposed threshold. More than 60% of voters rejected<\/a> it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in Austin overwhelmingly blocked a property tax increase that would have raised tens of millions of dollars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,23000,7771,23001,22999,287,22998,2051,27,23002],"class_list":{"0":"post-36497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-bastion","12":"tag-cities","13":"tag-kirk-preston-watson","14":"tag-liberal","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-tax-cuts","17":"tag-taxes","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-u-s-republicans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36497","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=36497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}