Austin's homeless problem

 NY Post:

Jamie Hammonds said city policies have pushed homeless into areas where the public can’t see them

An Austin, Texas, resident is raising awareness of the city’s homeless problem and its unseen impact on greenbelt areas.

Jamie Hammonds, an investigative filmmaker who runs the organization Documenting Austin’s Streets and Homeless, or DASH, shared videos Wednesday on Twitter, showing a homeless encampment in the Violet Crown Trail after roughly a year of neglect.

“It’s destroyed. It will never be the same,” Hammonds tweeted.

A real-estate agent concurred, saying the “environmental damage from these camps is immense.”

The videos, shot by Hammonds Wednesday morning, show piles of trash littering the trail as far as the eye can see. Hammonds reported seeing cars, trailers, mountains of garbage, needles, human waste, and hundreds of homeless.

Hammonds blamed city officials for worsening the problem. He argued that city policies have pushed people experiencing homelessness into greenbelt areas, out of the public’s view. Consequently, many city dwellers are unaware the problem persists.

“The problem’s there, it’s just that people can’t see it. They don’t realize how many people are actually in the woods,” he said.
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Liberals who run Austin are trying to hide the degradation caused by their homeless policies.  While Hammonds has exposed it, it is not clear that Austin liberals are interested in doing something about it.  I suspect drug addiction is responsible for many of these homeless people.