Audrey McGlinchy
Housing ReporterWhat I Cover
I cover housing, with a focus on affordable housing solutions, renters’ rights and the battles over zoning. Everyone is impacted by decisions about housing, which adds a level of urgency and importance to what I do. The belief that everyone deserves to live in affordable and sanitary housing is fundamental to my reporting.
Feel free to email me with story ideas.
My Background
I have covered housing and local government in Austin for nearly a decade. Before joining KUT, I earned a master’s in journalism from the City University of New York and lived in Thailand, where I taught English and ate lots of khao soi. My work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Planet Money.
Journalistic Ethics
I always identify myself as a reporter when I am working. If there is an error in one of my stories, I do my best to ensure it is quickly corrected. I work hard to demystify the costs of housing in my work, while also highlighting the people most affected by rising prices and unsafe conditions.
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The station’s general manager, Debbie Hiott, said the cuts may lead to the station dropping some shows and freezing hiring. -
Just 7% of homeowners in Texas have flood insurance through the federal government, which runs the biggest flood insurance program in the country. That percentage drops to 2% when you move inland, to areas like Travis and Kerr counties. -
Many of the flood victims were children. They left behind their stuffed animals. -
More than a dozen people in the Austin area were killed by floodwaters over the July Fourth weekend. Others from the area died in the flooding in Kerr County. -
Travis County emergency responders have conducted dozens of water rescues since the flooding began. Officials are encouraging residents to sign up for alerts from Warn Central Texas to stay up to date on the situation. -
A flash flood warning for the Austin area expired late Friday afternoon. At least 24 people have been killed by floodwaters in the Hill Country. -
The practice has been accepted by public universities across the state. The law has fed a growing industry of families buying condos in cash, holding onto them for a couple years and then selling to the next out-of-state family. -
The developer, Endeavor Real Estate, plans to build 1,400 apartments and 1 million square feet of office space. -
A group of homeowners used the law in 2019 to stop Austin's attempt to rewrite rules about what can be built and where. -
Bills touted as "anti-squatter" reforms were originally written to make it easier to evict renters. But legislators significantly scaled back these provisions in a bill poised to become law.
