Random - BASTA
Year in which BASTA was established?
2016
The TA that BASTA has been organizing/supporting the longest!
What is Arbors?
This is the year that the Right to Organize Ordinance was passed in Austin.
What is 2022?
This was deliberately routed along East Avenue, reinforcing Austin's racial segregation by dividing Black and Mexican American communities from white neighborhoods.
What is I-35?
This annual Austin music festival, first held in 2002, now spans two weekends each October and is named after the longest-running live music television program.
What is the Austin City Limits?
Located in the BASTA Meeting Prep Room. Have standard meeting supplies you will need (and you may not even know you need it).
The TA that BASTA has been organizing/supporting the shortest amount of time!
What is People of Polaris?
The department of the city that oversees and enforces city laws related to structural problems and property conditions.
What is Austin Code?
Annexed by Austin in the 1950s, this South Austin community has since fought for equitable amenities, recognition of its Black and Latino history, and protection of sites like Burditt’s Prairie and St. Edward’s Baptist Church.
What is Montopolis?
With origins on the local subreddit r/Austin, this iconic restaurant lives on a very famous intersection.
What is the Chilis on 45th and Lamar?
The office room where you can find the foldable wagons!
What is the meeting prep room?
This TA has begun disputing high utility bills by submitting complaints to the Public Utility Commission of Texas!
What is Chateau Mobile Home Park?
This is a judicial process! A landlord cannot force anyone to leave their home without a direct order from a judge. Tenants have a right to a hearing.
What is Eviction?
A Historically Black neighborhood in East Austin, known for its historic sites and its role as the long-time host of the city's Juneteenth celebration
What is Rosewood?
Austin earned this title thanks to having more than 200 venues.
What is the Live Music Capital of the World?
The TRLA case management system.
What is Legal Server?
This TA was able to stop Automatic License Plate Readers from being installed on Property!
What is Residences at Decker?
If you have a disability, you ask for this from your landlord to make changes so you can use and enjoy your apartment like any tenant without a disability.
What is a Reasonable Accommodation or Modification?
This backyard landmark, built entirely from scrap materials beginning in 1989, remains one of South Austin’s strangest attractions.
What is the Cathedral of Junk?
This was Austin's original name.
What is a Waterloo?
Year that BASTA Eviction Mitigation Team (BEMT) became BASTA Education & Arts Team (BEAT).
What is 2024
BASTA Supported the community purchase of this Mobile Home Park!
What is North Lamar Mobile Home Park?
Some properties that receive city funding must follow these special rules to protect tenants and ensure that tenants are treated fairly in their homes.
The RHDA Lease Addendum
The local Brown Berets chapter, a Chicano social justice group founded in 1972, fought for this areas right to a peaceful and clean environment and led protests against The Aqua Fest Drag Boat Races.
What is Festival Beach?
Austin is the sole habitat of this endangered species, which lives in the Barton Springs water system.
Barton Springs Salamander