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Feeling heat for the city s homelessness problems, Austin Mayor Steve Adler appeared to deflect blame onto City Manager Spencer Cronk in a recent interview with podcast host Joe Rogan.
During the nearly hourlong conversation from Rogan s studio in Austin, Adler touched on a number of challenges the city has faced since he became mayor in 2015 and devoted much of the time to addressing pushback from residents over the city s policies on camping in public.
In recapping the Austin City Council s decision to repeal a ban against camping in public in 2019, Adler said that Cronk, in his role as the city s top executive, failed to clearly define where people experiencing homelessness could and could not stay after the new rules went into effect.
“He was a very nurturing and caring little boy,” Woollaston said. His parents were supportive of the ways their 11-year-old would express himself and encouraged all his interests – his most recent one was fishing.
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Jacob was a sensitive, caring and funny boy, his family says. “He was an incredibly unique and loving boy. We re blessed to have had him in our lives for 11 years, and we’re all going to miss him,” Woollaston said. The family were grappling with why it happened and were waiting to hear from the coroner. But mostly, they were going to miss him, Woollaston said.
Austin s camping ban returns Tuesday, but it s not clear when or how it will be enforced
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After Austin voters decided to force the city to end its policy of allowing encampments in some areas, it’s not clear when police will start issuing tickets against people experiencing homelessness or how quickly the city could remove tents in public areas but they’re allowed to start doing both on Tuesday.
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On Saturday, 57% of Austin voters decided to approve the proposition to reinstate the public camping ban, which city leaders reversed in July 2019. Proposition B, which was put on the ballot after the organization Save Austin Now gathered more than 24,000 signatures, also reinstated bans on sitting and lying in public areas as well as panhandling in specific locations during certain hours.