For the better part of three years, the city has stumbled communicating when it would activate cold weather shelters. Nonprofits and first responders are tired of it.
Prop B passes: What happens now to the homeless in downtown Austin?
There’s still a divide on what should happen next with the homeless population in Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas - The Monday after the Proposition B vote found Michelle Joseph doing what she does every Monday.
Joseph, with a group called Drive By Howdy, helped at an Austinhomeless camp under I-35, providing food and basic hygiene supplies. I’m here because they are still here, she said.
Joseph and the group she s with have been helping for almost a year now. For her, there s been way too much talk
Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon
Michael Minasi
Gabriel C. Pérez
Ivan Zaplatar and Cole Kershner (foreground) attend an outdoor graduation ceremony in the West Austin neighborhood of Highland Park on May 26.
Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon
Austin police officers force protesters off I-35 during a nationwide demonstration May 30 against police brutality and systematic racism after the killing of George Floyd.
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Police officers face off with protesters on I-35 in downtown Austin, during a demonstration May 31 against police brutality and racism.
Michael Minasi
Demonstrators protesting police violence disperse after officers deploy tear gas on I-35 near Austin police headquarters on May 31.
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