Finding a Place to Call Home After Incarceration in Austin
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After four years inside, Marcus stepped off the Greyhound at Austin's downtown station with nothing but a duffel bag and a crumpled list of halfway houses. He needed more than a bed—he needed a place where neighbors wouldn't flinch at his parole bracelet, where a landlord would accept his rent check without extra questions. The Eastside bungalow came through a reentry program: avocado-green siding, a creaky porch swing, and a next-door widow who baked banana bread and didn't pry. It wasn't fanc…