AUSTIN, Texas - Urban Alchemy has laid off over 100 workers following the end of its contract with the city of Austin to run two downtown homeless shelters.

What we know:

According to a WARN notice with the Texas Workforce Commission, Urban Alchemy laid off 55 workers at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) and 54 workers at the 8th Street Women's Shelter, formerly the Salvation Army shelter, on Sept. 30.

An employee told FOX 7 Austin back in mid-September that he had received a notice from Urban Alchemy about the layoffs on Sept. 17.

The backstory:

The layoffs come after the city of Austin declined last month to renew its contracts with the California-based nonprofit.

The Homeless Strategy Office says Urban Alchemy reported five of their own employees for changing t

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