Hah! Even if Austinites tell the city officials to stop the madness, they won't listen.
per year? Some people on disability only get about $13,000 per year-
Buy them a bus ticket to some Democrat city at least 1000 miles away and wire them $100 to that city to make sure they go there.
150k on each person in five years!?!
Wow.
Why not just buy them a cheap house in a cheap state and be rid of them if you’re gonna spend that much?
Homelessness is as much about drug addiction and mental illness as it is about a “housing shortage.”
Its called root cause analysis...government idiots should try it some time.
I’ll bet that if the money could be tracked a lot of it winds up in the Austin politicians pockets and the pockets of their cronies
$28,000 , when the word gets out they’ll be flooded with Homeless
Who is getting the money that is being spent?
Bus ticket from Austin to San Fran, where welcome all homeless, is just $250, one-way. Moves them from where they are not wanted to where they are.
The amount spent on a homeless person in SF is mind boggling. If that person had a job and earned as much, they would be busy collecting taxes from them. In California, the public employee unions love homeless people, along with illegals, etc., because they are the ones that actually get the bulk of the money.
I blame the voters for this crap. Anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together knows full well that you don’t let children play with matches any more than you should put a democRAT in charge of anything.
It’s not nearly enough, bump it up....
It isn’t supposed to work. It is intended to funnel money into Leftist bureaucracies and well connected anti-American pockets.
“Just pay for it.”. Give them all tiny homes.
Philanthropy using public tax money is a very lucrative business. Pitt of that $28 million spent I bet only $1 to 2 million reachs the intended beneficiaries while the rest is vacumed up by politicians and the well-connected.
If the question is “How do we attract more homeless people?,” then, yes, that is the answer.
Austin was truly Texas until Governor Perry welcomed CA businesses into Texas and Austin in particular.
Stephen Adler should stop being "nice" and get the city to pass an ordinance that says if you don't have a job and a place to stay, you can't live in Austin, period.
I can hear the bleeding hears now, well just (ask Alaska).
Vagrancy can be a seasonal thing however, should not be an option in any city or state.
I’ll give the ‘homeless’ credit where it’s due. I tried camping in Northern Alabama during the summer years ago, and that part of the state is MUCH COOLER than Austin in the summer.
Still too hot for me...would never try that again. Yet the ‘homeless’ seem to thrive in that sauna.
I think one will find that the money is thrown at all kinds of folks having nothing actually to do with fixing the problem.
Anyone who really cares ought to watch Seattle is Dying on YouTube. Very sad but revealing. Most of the homeless are druggies or mentally ill or both. It would be smarter to throw money at increased law enforcement and rehab facilities.