The older way was much better than it is now.  when they (the city) opened the ARC downtown next to all the hotels and bars I knew it was going to be a shit show.  they wanted this to happen so they could usher in "their" solution

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Manufactured problem.

Time to close the factory.

Just give them high tech green jobs and they will be able to buy houses.  Why is this so difficult?!

I've never seen a homeless person in Spicewood, Horseshoe Bay, Llano or Mason. I left Austin years ago and I'll just keep heading west. Liberals ruined the coolest city in Texas. Yes, it had hippies, but it was different from other cities had a good vibe, all that died 20 years ago.

Just put them down. I say this as someone who spent most of their childhood homeless. "Homeless" isn't the problem and is just a ridiculous way for people who feel bad about an issue to try and identify a solution. You can put these people in a home and it will change nothing. Homelessness is a symptom of other issues. We aren't going to ever address the issues because we are too emotional of a country now to admit that some people can't be saved.

Send them all to Lake Way

The Nextdoor app would explode, Lakeway can't even handle a coyote sighting.

Exactly

Lets convince the liberals they all need to learn how to code and should be subsidized in doing so.  Might as well flood the 2nd hand market with laptops and raspberry pis that are immediately sold for fentanyl and malt liquor.  

I have UVC and an ozone generator, I'm not afraid.

House them in the new soccer stadium, give them the option to be bussed back and forth to their new jobs at Tesla.

If they don't like that option, then they can duke it out "Thunderdome" style on the weekends in the soccer stadium for season ticket holders.

Is that your final solution? Murder innocent people because they're mentally ill, or addicts?

If Adler stands at one end of inhumane, well, I guess someone has to be at the other end.

Everyone knows it's a bad idea once it degenerates into a full on shit storm.
The trick is being smart enough to know beforehand.

Want to get rid of the homeless?

Put them all on buses
Drive the bus to the desert
Get them off the buses
Tell them, "Y'all can live here."

Leave

Just pass a law requiring everybody own a home; it worked for healthcare it’ll work for homelessness.

As long as we're floating fun hypotheticals, let's just move them in to Democrat voter's homes. They, by their own admission, are more loving and caring (and, maybe gotta agree a tiny bit after the "kill 'em all" comment above), and they voted for the policies that are increasing the problem. So, look through all those voter rolls, and presto....everyone has a place to stay, a sponsor, and benefactor to help them get back on their feet. Isn't that what the left says is required? Act locally? Get involved? Lead with the heart?

Who could possibly be against this idea? The left cares. Make them prove it.

Fire can also be your friend sometimes..................

Yet the diehard liberals think these camps are outstanding and that they’re somehow helping.

Yesterday I watched a Gentleman of No Fixed Address walking around the underpass near my house. He was carrying a two-handed axe, but there were no firelogs around. I suppose the next jogger who gets killed because she was covered with fiery demon spiders should thank Mayor Adler for that.

Got the same problems in my area .   Tent cities under every bridge .

Sponsored by many of the local churches .

The churches at first just asked for blankets and coats .   Now they ask for tents and other camping gear .  Food , sanitation , First aid items .  And don't forget cash .

Did we have homeless before ?  Yes .   But the do gooders have only  made the situation worse .  And they puff themselves up at what good people they are .  

But they fail to acknowledge the increase in crime .  They don't live under the bridge but go home to sliced bread world .



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And the well funded non-profits that will sue at the drop of a hat if cops harrass homeless, throw their shit away or even attempt to put away the crazy drug addicted ones who (as said earlier) are 90-99% of the problem.

Build a fenced in camp out in West Texas and ship them there to dry out and get treatment if they get arrested twice. Just need tents and concertina wire and some doctors that have Fed Gov loans.

I have to go there next week for work and not looking forward to it at all!
I live in San Antonio and it seems to be getting the same as Austin in certain areas as well, damn Liberal Mayors ????

Truth

Colorado calls them "urban campers".  Judge ruled Denvers ban was unconstitutional.  Judge needs a yard full of them.

We can only hope.

Being good communists, I am sure the citizens of Austin would be happy to welcome the homeless into their homes.

Austin's homeless problem solved.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

I really like this idea! This town is a shithole and I cannot wait to escape.

The fix is to ship them to So Cal, Portland, or Seattle.

You could buy each and every homeless person a brand new house but it wouldn't change a thing. The underlining problems still exist. . . . Just in doors.

Not to mention those homes would be absolutely uninhabitable within months.

Best you can do is create policies that don't enable so the locals can have some semblance of quality of life

Lakeway and Bee Cave PD are pretty agressive with bums.   Adler wanted to buy one of the inns in Bee Cave for a roach motel and that was shot down with a quickness.

Who will ship them right back. That's how a lot of them got here.

Wrong solution.

Have to make your town unattractive, by not being lenient and supporting the lifestyle. That's all that will ever work.

Another argument to be made for helping people who are mentally ill and addicts, so they don't end up on the streets, tho.

There is a lot of truth in this statement. Leave out food, blankets, clothes, ect, and then call us when they actually have homeless people hanging around and their buildings and cars are getting broken into, trash strewn everywhere, and the place turns into a big dump.

I believe these court rulings about camping on the streets are based on the (insane) idea that the city must allow the flopping or provide somewhere else to sleep. Build barracks. Nice barracks. More nice barracks than you think you will ever need. Put in TVs. Put in a liquor store. Hell, pass out booze and smokes. If somebody is homesteading public property, panhandling, nodding out on a park bench, shitting on the sidewalk, et c., provide him a home and 3 squares a day. In the barracks.

If you've been accommodated in the barracks but leave and are found camping in a city park or begging, off to state prison. That would sort out the helpless from the lazy in short order.

Again, true. Lakeway PD is too busy giving Suzy soccer mom a ticket for 33 in a 30 on lakeway blvd.  Even APD rolls their eyes at lakeway and bee cave.  I do know a bee cave cop who is a good dude, though.

Altruism is the root of all evil.

They want drugs.  That's all it is, that's why there's more of them, now.

I lived in Austin about 1/2 of my life.  Austin has a good climate - it will always have a homeless issue.  That said, the homeless issue in Austin used to stem from a couple sources.  Substance abuse, mental illness, stupid kids and liberal adults.  The first 2 are obvious, but the third was kids that wanted to be their own lord and master to the extent they left perfectly good homes to be homeless.  Liberal adults made the whole damn thing possible.  The problem was the liberal adults made it too damn comfortable to be homeless in Austin, they kept trying to be more and more compassionate.  In the end - today's Austin is a homeless magnet city.  I would love to know what percentage of Austin homeless are in Austin only because it is a homeless friendly town.

In the past, we had homeless by choice.  While I probably chalked that up to mental illness above - that was not entirely true.  Austin is a good place to be homeless, it really was not a bad lifestyle for them.  One could argue they simply went Galt - they disappeared from productive society.  They stopped playing the game.  The problem now is homeless in Austin is cool.  It is a scene.  It is a honorable lifestyle among a fairly large group of people.  Some might be like the idealists of 20 years ago - but I bet most are simply lost people refusing to grow up.
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Anyway, the answer is not difficult.  The bible had it.  Compassion to those who actually need it (be that drug treatment, mental health treatment, or help finding jobs).  But for those who choose this as a lifestyle (which I think is the biggest part of the current Homeless trend in Austin right now) - Those who do not work, should not eat.  Tough love, make the city unattractive to parasites.  

We already did that.  They are IN Austin.