{"id":370539,"date":"2026-07-12T21:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:30:26","slug":"city-of-austin-has-spent-over-100k-cleaning-up-graffiti-on-private-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370539\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Austin has spent over $100K cleaning up graffiti on private properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The City of Austin says that it has spent over $100,000 cleaning up graffiti on private property since October.<\/p>\n<p>Over $100,000 has been spent cleaning up graffiti on 428 properties across Austin, the City confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Data provided by the City reveals that the area of east Austin south of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and west of Airport Boulevard has seen the most calls for graffiti removal, with 81 removals since October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-to-release-first-budget-proposal-friday-as-leaders-face-27m-deficit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Austin to release first budget proposal Friday as leaders face $27M deficit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second behind east Austin was the area around UT campus, with 49 calls since October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-launches-free-graffiti-removal-for-private-properties-funded-by-utility-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The City launched the one-year graffiti removal pilot program in October.<\/a> Under the program, property owners could call 311 and have the City remove graffiti from their properties at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>The program is funded by the money collected through the Clean Community Fee, a $5.45 monthly fee collected in Austin utility bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The City of Austin says that it has spent over $100,000 cleaning up graffiti on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-370539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370539","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=370539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}