Posted on 05/07/2023 2:45:01 PM PDT by dennisw
A property owner in Austin, Texas is begging the city for help in response to a homeless encampment that he says is negatively affecting his life and business to the point where he may have to pack up and leave.
Pedro Morales, who owns a building in the South Lamar neighborhood of Austin, told Fox 7 Austin this week that a homeless encampment popped up in a narrow area by his building complete with bedding, shelving, kitchen items and a laptop.
Morales explained to the outlet that the encampment started with just one person but then began to grow and he says he has been vandalized and even found an ankle monitor lying around.
“Eventually it’s just going to be overwhelming, and it’s going to cost us business, and it’s going to cost us money, and it’s going to cost us time,” Morales said.
Morales said he has called the city and the police and received a lackluster response. The police department removed someone from the property on May 5, Morales says, but the individual soon tried to come back.
“There’s absolutely zero accountability. I have to clean up somebody else’s mess. The city created this mess. I didn’t create that mess between my buildings,” Morales explained.
“The way the city has been progressively moving toward a direction of tolerance has caused this. I want to be tolerant, but you can’t affect my business. I can’t allow that. I’ll be tolerant to an extent. Once we start really losing business, it doesn’t make sense. We won’t live in Austin anymore. It’s that simple.”
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That could work.
A lot of 7/11 stores are blaring opera music to get homeless people to move along. It works.
Must be tough on the clerks, though.
> Get a large mass of discarded barbed wire and put it there. <
Somebody gets cut, and then the personal injury lawyers swoop in.
Such is America today.
I believe President Trump has recently said that soon they are going to take the homeless off the streets and take them to rehabilitation camps to help them re-enter society. I think he’s talking about very soon not Years from now.
San Antonio is working on being the stoma.
Is the camp site flammable?
I don't.
I’ll be tolerant to an extent.
I won't. If the freak show wants tolerance they can seek it among themselves.
That would invite a chemical terrorism charge in Austin.
Sorry, buddy, but you wanted to Transform America (tm), right? This is what the new one looks like. No do-overs.
Glad I don’t live in Austin, then.
Tiny Tim’s greatest hits, 24/7. All I am sayin’.
Homz sez ...
“I definitely don’t want to displace anyone...”
Either you do or you don’t, Pedro. Make up your mind. Besides, you probably voted for this.
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