Temporary camp idea gets pushback from Austin City Council
Austin City Council members briefed on two possible homeless sites
Although the two sites in discussion are said to be temporary places for the homeless to stay, residents still voice their concerns. We want to be spending our resources for permanent housing opportunities and services for people to be successful in those but we also don’t have places, those strategies take longer and people need places to go now. So this is a dilemma, said Council member Kathie Tovo (District 9).
Homeless Strategy Officer Dianna Grey told the council the sites will not be permanent. That is problematic for Council member Greg Casar (District 4).
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Camps outside City Hall and some on private property on 2nd Street were cleared on June 14 by Austin police and Austin Resource Recovery.
Austin leaders on Tuesday addressed the arrests of people experiencing homelessness as police and city staff cleared dozens of encampments around City Hall on Monday.
The arrests were for interfering with public duties and failure to obey a lawful order not for violating the camping ban Austin voters reinstated in May police said. People began camping near City Hall in protest of the ban s reinstatement. On Monday morning, the Austin Police Department and city staff moved people camped on private property and encampments in the way of an incoming construction project to build out bike and pedestrian infrastructure.
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