Neighborhood resident Keith Price is the new head of one of the city’s biggest non-profit homeless shelters, Austin Street Centre. Price has been involved with The Stewpot for the past few years, and he replaces Rev. Beulah “Bubba” Dailey, who worked at Austin Street for 28 years.
The shelter opened in 1983 near Fair Park and moved to 2929 Hickory Street Downtown in 1992. Among the programs offered are psychological counseling, work readiness, substance abuse counseling, voluntary worship services and emergency shelter to more than 400 men, women and children daily. The group says it accepts no government funding and is debt free, relying on donations to continue its work.
A couple of years ago, Price published a book detailing a road trip with his daughter, Emma, and his son, Alex, who happens to be the same age as our oldest son, Jack. The Prices were driving from Dallas to New Jersey; the book was titled “The Odyssey and the Idiot” and is still available on Amazon.
