Video shows Austin’s ‘crown jewel’
trail trashed by hidden homeless camps:
‘It’s destroyed’
Fox News,
by
Bradford Betz
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/8/2023 12:36:56 PM
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.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/8/2023 12:53:38 PM (No. 1487647)
What you permit - you'll soon drown in. Austinites, like those who live in every other Dem stronghold, have only themselves to blame.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 6/8/2023 12:54:07 PM (No. 1487648)
Another city run by Democrats goes 4th World Cesspool in no time. Makes the Streets of San Francisco look clean. Can any Democrat run a major metropolitan city without destroying it? So far, no. It's their cred.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SALady 6/8/2023 1:03:16 PM (No. 1487661)
My husband and I are hostages in Austin for a couple of more years. I guarantee we will be out of here the first day that we can.
We used to love the Violet Crown Trail when it first opened. But we haven't gone on it in a few years since the massive unlimited homeless camping here made it (and pretty much every public space unsafe and filthy). Add to that the defunding of our police, and there aren't enough resources for the police to investigate major crimes.
So this is only going to get worse and worse, unless we can somehow find a way to break the lie-beral dictatorship of city government that we are imprisoned under. However, given the massive majority of braindead lie-berals here in Austin, that simply isn't going to happen until everything is destroyed and there is no other way to go...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/8/2023 1:07:31 PM (No. 1487667)
This is the new city reality. In Houston, I have a man and woman 2 miles from me that lives under a bridge. It is in a flood zone, and there is a no trespassing sign on each corner of the bridge. They get water from a city water main. If you want to know how to break into a city water main, ask a homeless person. Then, there is a woman that has a small RV, tires are flat, there is a blue tarp on top, because it leaks, that has parked on a city street, and has lived there for 3 years. There is no water or electricity. There is a Walmart a 1/2 mile away. I have reported both to the City code officer, their website, and gotten zero responses. There is another homeless person that lives in a wooded growth area behind some apartments. They push shopping baskets up from Walmart, leave them in the street, and Walmart never picks them up. Every intersection is manned by panhandlers, all 4 corners. There is a panhandling industry in Houston. I noticed the new underpasses have rocks covering all the area under the overpass, so no one can camp there. Then, Houston is overrun by illegals. That includes schools, hospitals, parks, Walmart, banks, and streets. There's more. The 18 wheelers park on the street in residential areas in Houston, run their engines for a/c or heat, sleep there, and dump their trash when they leave. It is against the law. I have seen the City code officer once in 25 years. Citations could be written by the thousands on any day. More, people that buy fast food throw the wrappings in the streets, which are filled with trash. And no one takes their old furniture or tires to the dump. Instead depositing it in the streets. Houston is not exactly the city of aesthetic beauty they advertise to tourists.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 6/8/2023 1:08:42 PM (No. 1487668)
Leftists destroy everything, always. It is the one constant in their insanity.
ALL their ideas of economics and social behavior are counterfactual. 100% wrong....so their "efforts" always destroy.
It's like being absolutely CERTAIN that turning the steering wheel to the left makes the car go right. And no matter how many times you wind up in the ditch, and how many times you are told "No, turn the wheel right to go right", you insist that you "know better".
'
Turn left, to go right and ....boom, into another ditch.
And absolutely certain that there was a problem with the car, so get another car and do it again.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/8/2023 2:05:27 PM (No. 1487690)
Wanna fix the problem? Surreptitiously, slip the homeless weapons. Enough armed criminals and deadly assaults and the leftists will beg for help.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 6/8/2023 2:19:23 PM (No. 1487698)
“We would like the city to start trying to provide some type of services to them that would help them get off the streets if they ended up wanting to,” Hammond said. “It’s such a shame what’s happening here.”
Tragic reality check: Virtually all programs that try that wind up failing (some spectacularly) and folding. Too many of those living on the streets prove to be either unwilling to stay in a shelter or incapable of maintaining a home. Some simply prefer the "freedom" (lack of responsibility) of street life.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 6/8/2023 2:26:55 PM (No. 1487701)
The oh-so-virtuous voters of Austin got exactly what they voted for. They will never admit that they destroyed their park to display their sympathy for the homeless and to show the nation how much better people they are than the rest of us.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/8/2023 2:43:20 PM (No. 1487708)
Human trash cannot possibly beautify anyplace. They can only destroy.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/8/2023 2:56:19 PM (No. 1487714)
Scoop up these lay abouts and deport them all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 6/8/2023 3:15:46 PM (No. 1487724)
What political party dominates Austin’s government? Huh? What did you say? That’s what I thought you said.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Anaverageguy 6/8/2023 4:04:39 PM (No. 1487752)
Houston is representive of every democrat run city in America. Even in backwoods New Hampshire the trails, parks and wooded area have become Hobo jungles... and the dem mayors still think throwing money at the problem will resolve the issue. I long for the days where the police would give them a ride to the bus station hand them $50 and a one way ticket south and warm them not to come back.....
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 6/8/2023 4:54:22 PM (No. 1487802)
Misplaced and unwarranted compassion carries its costs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/8/2023 6:39:47 PM (No. 1487874)
#4 last time I was in Houston was '04. Every overpass had a homeless encampment under it and dodged grocery carts scattered about in intersections. nope, ain't goin back. Can't imagine what it became after Katrina
"Keep Austin Weird "? Haven't been there since '05. Even my hippie sister deserted it after 35 years. Remember when the city council provided kiosks where the homeless could get free plastic bags to dispose of their trash and garbage? hahahahaha!! silly progressives.
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