…counter homeless camping. This led to a swift response from officers of the Department of Public Safety, who had been prepositioned to back up the university’s police department. According to…
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Austin City Council Member Requests Audit of City Spending on Homeless Services
AUSTIN—City Councilmember Mackenzie Kelly is requesting a “comprehensive review and audit of homeless services and spending within our city.” Kelly highlighted the need for a review of the city’s homeless…
Austin Homeless Disaster: Officials End Contract With Largest Shelter Operator
As Austin attempts to move forward after more than two years of a lawless public camping disaster, city officials have quietly admitted the failure of their largest homeless services contractor….
Austin Mayor Says City Needs $100 Million More to Solve Homeless Crisis
…a new homeless housing project to alleviate Austin’s ongoing homelessness crisis. The new project, often referred to as the Homeless Summit, proposes spending $515 million on 3,000 homeless housing units—a…
AOC Endorses Socialist Austin City Councilman in Democrat Congressional Primary
…tax bills. But Casar was most notorious for the contentious 2019 homeless camping decision, when he and the council legalized unrestrained public camping in nearly all spaces across the city…
Austin Homeless Camps Spread on State-Controlled Roadways
Despite the passage of House Bill 1925 during the 2021 Texas legislative session—and a years-long public safety disaster—unrestrained homeless camping is returning to Austin. The new state law was supposed…
Is the Austin Public Camping Catastrophe Coming Back?
Despite a years-long public safety disaster in Texas’ capital city—plus a citizen petition campaign and a newly enacted state law—citizens are now seeing lawless homeless camping return to their neighborhoods….
Austin Mayor Wants to Make it Harder for Citizens to Petition Government
…and the Austin City Council’s contentious and disastrous 2019 decision that legalized unrestrained homeless camping in nearly all public spaces across the city. In the May election, citizens overwhelmingly voted…
Socialist Austin City Councilman Is Running for Congress
…taxes by 150 percent.) Casar was also a leader of the contentious 2019 homeless camping decision, when he and the council legalized unrestrained public camping in nearly all spaces across…
Elon Musk Warns Austin Against Becoming a ‘San Francisco Copycat’
…Austin’s Democrat local officials have already enacted numerous San Francisco-esque policies on citizens in the city—including suffocating taxes, restrictions on affordable housing, and a recent homeless public camping disaster. However,…