📱 Why Apple pulled this Austin-based app

🎙️ What’s City Council Doing About Housing?

Austin City Council has been busy — it’s making progress on regulating short-term rentals while grappling with homelessness services, an ongoing navigation center dispute, and efforts to keep some 28,000 affordable housing units from being sold. What does it all mean for Austin’s housing issues? [City Cast Austin 🎧]

📵 Apple Shuts Down ICE-Tracking App

Apple says it pulled the Austin-based crowdsourcing app ICEBlock from its App Store based on safety concerns it received from law enforcement, but did not provide further details. The app allows users to anonymously report immigration agent sightings, though it’s been under scrutiny after a Dallas man reportedly used it before a shooting at an immigration detention facility in September. [CBS News]

• A closer look: How Trump's Immigration Policies Are Changing Austin [City Cast Austin 🎧]

🕳️ Bastrop Courts Elon Musk for Pedestrian Tunnels

The City of Bastrop is considering building a system of tunnels that would safely connect pedestrians to its trail system, and it wants design help from Musk’s Boring Company. City officials don’t expect the Boring Company to help fund the pedestrian tunnel, so the estimated cost of $5 to $7 million would come from a mix of private and public money. [KUT]

• Related: Musk’s company has faced controversy elsewhere, so should Austin be wary of so-called “Tesla Tunnels”? [City Cast Austin 🎧]

🚔 Austin Outlines ‘Crime Hotspot’ Task Force

City leaders shared the first of several planned operations targeting what it calls “prominent violent hot spots,” an effort that targeted two nightclubs in northeast Austin. Austin Police said they’re partnering with the FBI and other agencies for at least another four operations. [KXAN]

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