According to our partners at the Austin American-Statesman, people can sleep and set up tents on public sidewalks, just not in front of City Hall.
KIIITV: Before the change, it was illegal to sit, lie or camp in public. Now, officers will only give tickets to people who block pathways.
AUSTIN, Texas — Starting Monday, Austin police will begin enforcing the city’s new homelessness rules. This comes just 10 days after the city council changed ordinances to decriminalize homelessness.
Before the change, it was illegal to sit, lie or camp in public. Now, officers will only give tickets to people who block pathways. The city council changed another part of the ordinance that only makes it illegal to panhandle if someone is being aggressive.
Police Chief Brian Manley said before this change, officers didn’t have to give out a lot of tickets to many homeless people. Most of the time, people moved along when they were asked. Now there’s a higher bar if they want to write a ticket.
There has been a lot of discussion about this on both sides. Mayor Steve Adler believes this is an opportunity for Austin to succeed where other cities are failing. However, Gov. Greg Abbott has also chimed in, vocalizing his concern. He believes it’s putting public safety at risk.
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SNIP: California, Oregon, and New York will all start sending their homeless to Austin. Good job, idiot mayor!
h/t Merryl.
That’s how Portland started! Brilliant.
Don’t worry Austin!!! Help is on its Way!!!
https://tinyurl.com/y2q9cugq
Congratulations Austin! … you’re well on your way to becoming the Los Angeles of Texas!
Shit.. Shit everywhere. ..
Austin is a Liberal cancer that has afflicted our state. It’s time to cut it out so that it doesn’t metastasize any further than it already has.
Now, if Seattle were smart, they’d offer their homeless free transportation to Austin. (Sorry, Texas.)
There’s no reason to be homeless in Austin.. The city is booming..
Still campsites are festering under every underpass..
Panhandling is in full swing
👎 AW HELL NAW! 👎
Camping is DOUBLE-LEGAL in front of City Hall. That’s EXACTLY where they should be camping so that people there can come to work every day and experience and see what us commoners experience. No shooing your problem out of sight and out of mind.
Just like the U.N., sit in comfortable New York City and pretend to care about world problems. Hell naw, it needs to be a circulating office right in the middle of Africa so that it has 1st hand knowledge of the world’s problems. When they fix that, bug-out and set up the office in the next worst spot.
If you are without ‘means’ you can set up your ‘indefinite’ unsafe abode wherever you choose, without permit, license or hindrance of any kind.
Contraire, if you are a working, tax-paying, citizen…..you must follow all building codes and rules in order to maintain the safety of you and yours while filling the coffers of the local government that will stringently force you to adhere to minimum statutes where failure may result in fines and/or jail.
AND HE’S BEEN PLUGGING THE BUTTPLUG DUDE!!
TX ISN’T LIMITING ITSELF TO BLUE, IT’S GOING FULL RAINBOW!! THOSE POOR TEXAN LOYALISTS ARE ROLLING IN THEIR GRAVES, ALAMO ALL FOR NOT!! SAM HOUSTON KICKED SANTA ANNA’S BUTT FOR NOTHING!!
They’re ALL yours – enjoy! 😳
Subsidize and approve of something and you will most certainly get more of it. Waiting to see is not necessary, just look at Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, or any other Dem ruled city.
Why not? Same as NY and LA. And SF. And every other liberal dump in the nation.
All part of the Cloward-Piven plan.
Won’t be long before Austin smells like neighboring feedlots.
Coincidently, Gov Abbot signed a new hunting regulation today.
Hobo hunting season starts Sept 1.
He may be taking tips from Mr MAGA himself on dealing with libs.
Dallas has gotten pretty bad with it the last few years. Not so long ago it was illegal to have a sign and work intersections. All that is over now. Some places they’ll camp near the intersections and work them in shifts. Grocery carts everywhere filled with their stuff. Lots of camps everywhere I go now.
I am less inclined to help when they purposely live that way.
When I saw two people pushing a cart and had a dog on a leash – I stopped caring.
You can’t afford a dog if you can’t afford a home. You are too stupid. The other thing that irked me a few weeks ago, was a guy riding up to a bus stop sign and locking a Lime bike to it, pulling out his little catch-all, pulling a cig from that, lighting it, then proceeded to work the intersection for money.
No.
You have to have a bank card to ride a Lime bike and you smoke. I’m not supporting your choice of lifestyle living off the goodwill of others that work harder than you do.
There is audio of Adler on a local morning radio show proclaiming opposition to lifting the ordinances and that he would vote against them. He was lying, of course.
Libs. Always forgetting the toilet paper when they take a dump.
I live in an OhStink, TexAss, neighborhood with the virtue signs:
https://tinyurl.com/Virt-Chew ,
but, butt, according to the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/08/us/census-race-map.html,
my neighborhood is only about one-percent blacks in a town which city-data.com claims to be about eight-percent blacks in a country which is about thirteen-percent blacks and where about thirty-six-percent of abortions are committed on black women.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/emily-ward/blacks-make-134-population-36-abortions
@jellybean July 1, 2019 at 11:38 pm
> If you are without ‘means’ you can set up your ‘indefinite’ unsafe abode wherever you choose, without permit, license or hindrance of any kind.
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> Contraire, if you are a working, tax-paying, citizen…..you must follow all building codes and rules in order to maintain the safety of you and yours while filling the coffers of the local government that will stringently force you to adhere to minimum statutes where failure may result in fines and/or jail.
So your “solution” to rape is to line up your daughters, and pull down their panties!?
I lived in Austin in the late 70’s. Nice place, good people. Anyone been there lately? Don’t bother.