While I'm on the subject of duplexes, Austin has always struck me as having an unusually large number of duplexes. I finally got around to looking up the numbers. Duplex units make up 5.3% of Austin's housing stock. By comparison, they make up just 1.8% of Houston's stock, 1.7% of Dallas's stock, and 2.2% of San Antonio's stock.* Austin thus has more than three times as many duplexes as Houston or Dallas (relative to the total housing stock), and more than twice as...
Fire Rips Through SW Austin Home
A two story house fire in Southwest Austin required numerous fire departments to contain the blaze.The Manchaca Fire Department responded to 12305 Buffalo Grove Cove around 6:15 p.m. Sunday...
Something Fell From The Sky Today That Was Like Water, But...
By Tuesday we should be up to almost 80 degrees again (blech), but today our streets were nearly glazed over for about ten minutes with something that wasn't quite snow but wasn't really...
Reports of Snow and Sleet Across the Austin Area
It’s finally Winter in Austin. After a very chilly night, temperatures dropped into the 20s across the Hill Country and lows 30s in Austin.Cold temperatures were in place and moisture...
Cental Texas Getting Dusted With Ice
It’s finally Winter in Austin. After a very chilly night, temperatures dropped into the 20s across the Hill Country and lows 30s in Austin.Cold temperatures were in place and moisture...
Whitney Houston Has Died At Age 48
Whitney Houston's publicist, Kristen Foster, has confirmed that the singer died today at the age of 48, though it's unclear what the cause of death was, or where she was when she died. Most...
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