Alan Graham, founder and CEO of
Mobile Loaves & Fishes, is fond of calling the social outreach ministry's supportive housing development,
Community First! Village, "Austin's most talked-about neighborhood." That slogan will someday evolve to the plural "neighborhoods" to reflect the organization's most significant expansion yet to house Austin's formerly chronically homeless neighbors.
Earlier this month, MLF announced the next two phases of Community First! that will add an additional 1,400 homes at two sites. Phase 3 will be located on 51 acres near the current village (also 51 acres) on Hog Eye Road in far Northeast Austin; phase 4 will be 10 miles to the south at a 76-acre site on Burleson Road between McKinney Falls Parkway and U.S. 183. Construction on both sites is expected to begin in the summer of 2022, said Graham, and it's MLF's hope that both phases will be built concurrently.