The police department removed someone from the property on May 5, Morales says, but they soon tried to come back.Fox 7 Austin
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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If your life is wrecked, you may as well go out in a blinding flash of glory, blood and death.
Yeah, keep Austin Weird!
Just don’t move to Round Rock to do it.
The police department removed someone from the property on May 5, Morales says, but they soon tried to come back.Fox 7 Austin
I would “rent/pay” people to put tents right ON TOP OF the tents already there until they leave. No one says you can’t build UP. Put YOUR trash right on top of the tents there.
Austin is the anus of Texas.
And this is how they will redistribute wealth and end private property. If everyone organized and stopped paying property tax this would stop.
Maybe go out each day and spray everything with skunk scent, or that rotten-egg stuff that’s supposed to keep deer out of your garden but doesn’t.
This is what steer manure was made for. Plus “ It’s a Small World” on a 24 hour loop.
lawsuit against city
Yes indeed!
Abbott needs to clean it out.
That won’t work. It would make the homeless smell better.
Such is life in Austin, move.
C’mon man
That’s Pedo Joes favorite song
Well, there is the loss of property value to address first and foremost.
Get a large mass of discarded barbed wire and put it there. Anchor it down. They won’t stay very long.
Perhaps, but those things are easier to handle than fuming nitric acid.
Austin, Tx is getting it’s serving of that San Francisco Treat.
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