History:
2019 - Public camping legalized by Austin voters.
2021 - Austin voters ban camping.
2021 - Republican state legislature rams through a bill to make it a crime to be homeless on state land.
2023 - Austin voters criminalized being homeless with Prop B.
When you take people from one place, and offer them a Hobson's choice of jail or a housing not nearby in another place, it has a specific term: "concentration camp".
In the meantime, APD is critically understaffed, underfunded, morale is very low, and non-life-threatening service calls are largely ignored. APD officers are there to collect a paycheck and do as little as possible. As an ex-APD officer said: you take your life into your hands living or visiting Austin because it's unsafe by design of political extremists in the DA's office who refuse to prosecute repeated violent crime and property crime.
ReasonTV has a couple good videos on the subject https://youtu.be/n-zESacteu4 https://youtu.be/n6h7fL22WCE
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Downtown Portland experimented with its own tiny home community. The homes were cute, I wouldn’t have minded one myself. However reportedly due to drug use and violence it became too dangerous for the community service workers to enter the area. The situation quickly turned into a tiny home slum. The city not long after demolished the little time home community and moved the residents “elsewhere”. I sincerely hope Austin has a better plan and studies the failed attempt in Portland.
https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/portland-oregon-...