California’s Present, Austin’s Future

Wonder where Austin’s “Let the homeless do whatever they want, wherever they want, except in front of the city council building” plans lead to? Watch this.

(Crap, just before I clicked publish on this, this Tweeter set their account to private. It was a video of a Sacramento business owner talking passionately about how she was leaving because she had gotten tired of removing the needles and washing the poo and pee off the sidewalk in front of her business every day, and how the patrons of her hair salon literally had to step over homeless people to get in.)

Update: Was poking around and I found an article that transcribes her statement:

A frustrated California woman took to Twitter on Friday to blast governor Gavin Newsom’s disastrous policies that have created a desperate homeless problem. The woman – who goes by @Jesus_porvida on Twitter – was clearly upset as she posted a video detailing why she may be forced to close the doors of her business.

I have had a business in downtown Sacramento for 15 yrs, a successful business. I now have to leave my place of business. I have to close my shop.

Later tweets show pictures of the woman’s shop after the most recent in a series of break-ins, a break-in that apparently was the last straw for the Sacramento are hair stylist.

I have to clean up the poop and pee off my doorstep. I have to clean up the syringes. I have to politely ask ppl who I care for – I care about the homeless – to move their tents out of the way of the door to my business. I have to fight off people who push their way into my shop that are homeless and on drugs because you won’t arrest them for drug offenses. I have to apologize to my clients as to why they can’t get into my door because there’s somebody asleep there bc they’re not getting the help they need.

I talk to police offers. They told me to contact you. They want to do something and they can’t because you changed the laws. So I wanna know what you’re gonna do for us, the ones that are unhappy. You wanna make us a sanctuary state. You wanna make it comfortable for everybody except for the ppl that work hard and have tried their hardest to get along in life and now we have to change that because of your laws.

She shredded Newsom’s “liberal ideology” as the cause for the current chaos that forced her to close the doors of her business.

While you sit in your million dollar home you don’t have to look at what we have to look at; there’s hard working people who have to deal with this on a daily basis. What are you going to do for us?

I won’t stop , the gov of CA and his liberal ideology ruined my business.. I decided to close the doors today. I can’t do it anymore and I’m irate. Sincerely , a hard working self built self employed California business owner.

And Austin is already spending $28,000 in taxpayer money for each homeless person:

Austin City Council is spending a record-high $62.7 million this year to try and solve homelessness, equivalent to giving roughly $28,000 to each homeless person in the city. But the more startling fact is that Austin officials are leading the city down the same dangerous path San Francisco has already journeyed—a path Austinites should be wary not to travel.

Before peering down the road toward Austin’s future, let’s look around for a moment at the crisis happening right now in Texas’ capital city. The homeless population is rapidly rising, up 5 percent a year for the last two years; the number of those unsheltered on the streets is the highest it has been in nearly a decade. And you may have even noticed people camping in the middle of public areas all across town, thanks to a recent decision by the city council that has spread contention throughout the community.

We already know city council’s plan to solve this whole problem is to spend a lot of money, but instead of just writing a $28,000 check to each homeless person, they’re sending pallets of tax dollars through a cash-eating maze of city administration and bureaucracy, hoping that a fraction of it eventually comes out the other side to the people on the streets.

Will that plan work? Enter San Francisco, the potential Austin-of-the-future.

If you look just past the shiny Golden Gate Bridge, you’ll see one of the worst homelessness disasters in the United States. The Bay City has recently become infamous for homeless crime, used syringes, and human feces littering the entire downtown area (the city even has a designated “Poop Patrol”).

San Francisco’s city government created a bold plan to solve everything, a plan Austin is now following: Spend lots of citizens’ money.

From 2016 to 2020, their city government will have spent over $1.5 billion on homelessness. If you do the math of that four-year spending based on the current homeless population of 9,784, that’s over $153,000 on each person.

Yet despite San Francisco’s mind-boggling payouts per person, the situation for those on the street—and the rest of the city—has only deteriorated.

Indeed, the homeless population has grown by nearly 7 percent in just the last two years (and 14 percent since 2013), with the vast majority of those new homeless being hometown folks. Oh, and the dangerous turmoil on the streets downtown has only intensified.

Here’s a piece on volunteers having to clean up the historically black Walnut Creek Cemetery because homeless people have started camping there. (Homeless people camping in cemeteries is a problem Seattle started to have after they stopped enforcing laws against homeless camping.)

Some more tweets:

It appears that the Austin City Council has finally started figuring out just how deeply they screwed up:

Austin will re-examine its new rules governing homelessness, according to a memo released Friday.

The memo sent to the City Council on behalf of Austin’s Homelessness Strategy Office says the city could abandon its idea to make space for emergency encampments in every City Council district.

The office said after meeting with the Downtown Austin Alliance, the Greater Austin Crime Commission, service providers, public safety officials and the city’s newly formed Homeless Advisory Committee, it is prepared to limit where people can camp and sit or lie down in public – as well as limit how long a person can camp or rest.

The City Council voted to scale back rules on that behavior in June, allowing people to rest or camp in public as long as they didn’t do so on city parkland, completely obstruct a sidewalk, or present a public health or safety risk to themselves or others. The decision was met with pushback from Austinites who argued the new rules allowed for more visible encampments throughout the city.

Here’s an idea: How about they just restore the ban on public camping?

Want to contact the Austin City Council? Dwight has you covered.

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 18th, 2019 at 11:21 AM and is filed under Austin, Crime, Texas, video, Welfare State. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “California’s Present, Austin’s Future”

  1. Fergus says:
    August 20, 2019 at 12:01 AM

    Send them to DeBlazio’s paradise or Havard Square.

  2. johnb. says:
    August 26, 2019 at 7:21 AM

    All downstream from Republican supported mass immigration. The immigrants vote 70% leftist, and those leftists will gut the Constitution. These leftists also support anything that is a thumb in the eye of traditional society, such as forcing them to sniff bum sh*t. They don’t really care about “the plight of the homeless”, it’s all about humiliating the normies.

Leave a Reply