Posted on 08/24/2019 1:16:50 PM PDT by bgill
Some Austin business owners say the homeless problem is now a homeless crisis. One downtown business owner says he may start closing early to keep employees and customers safe...In June, the Austin City Council changed the homeless ordinances to allow sitting, lying and camping in more public spaces, including sidewalks. Staley says that's when one homeless man moved in. “All his belongings are right here up against our patio and we can't do anything about it. We can't. The police can't,” said Staley. The patio on Congress Avenue was designed as a shady spot for tourists and locals to grab a quick meal. “Can you camp right next to a patio?” asked Staley...If the rules don't change the Congress Avenue store might start closing at 6 p.m. instead of midnight. Staley says the safety of employees and customers is the reason why.
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Wouldn’t the answer be for ALL store owners to CLOSE and Lay Off everyone, and tell them to go see the Mayor if they have a problem
The fact that virile men, who should be on the front lines defending women and children, are out on the streets loitering, getting drunk,doing drugs and unwilling to work is lost on Liberas and is a snapshot of where we are as a culture. Planned Parenthood assassinates 300,000 babies a year, human trafficking is at an all-time high with women and children, and men that should be protecting them are out on the streets f****** around. Oh and the communist politicians in Austin have a plan that has been in force for the last few years that only costs tax payers about $30, 000 per year for each homeless man. Everything they touch turns to dung.
4000 abortions per day...
Another city dominated by craven Democrats like my hometown of Los Angeles.
Liberal behavior is to occupy the most attractive locales, drive up property prices and drive out the middle classes who built them, pretend to be virtuous by allowing homeless and criminals to invade and make the it uninhabitable, then move on to the next pristine place and repeat the cycle. They’re like a virus, or an animal that befouls its nest to make it unlivable for any other creature. Wolverines are the only species I can think of offhand that compare.
Whatever these bum libs touch turns to s**t. Rush had a great idea when he said DJT should campaign in San Francisco. Let the nation see the mess these d’bags have created.
I’m glad we visited a couple of years ago at Thanksgiving.one and done.
yep
I kind of enjoy it when Leftist leaders make their Leftist subjects suffer a bit.
It should be perfectly clear to any thinking human being whose side they are on.
I own a car wash on a piece of dirt in west Nashville that will likely sell soon for 1.7 to 2 million..no I’m not rich it has a mortgage on it
Problem is it sits on an outparcel with a Lowe’s and WalMart as anchors
Other businesses too
Jim and Nicks bbq
Oil change
Bojangles
Bear in mind posh Belle Meade is a mile or so away and Hillwood West Meade with multi million dollar homes very close
Eric Church and Allen Jackson live very close too on River road
Yet this is Nashville which mimics Austin and Boulder and we have a huge hobo encampment behind Lowe’s by the banks of the Cumberland
It’s called the Trail
A few hundred meth heads and alkies and crazy folks live back there
They have broken into my back vacuum so much I just turned it off
Brazenly on camera
Lowe’s put up a fence but they go around it
W
Cops would help but city won’t do shite
I ate dinner with my daughter in Murfreesboro last week....
Leafy suburban small city about 35 miles southeast
We ate on the square and we’re going to walk around our Bedford Forrest courthouse one a union soldier tried to burn with prisoners in it in 1863....Forrest dispatched him promptly
Anyhow...bums were sleeping on all the benches all camped out with signs begging or already passed out
I think Lebanon and Dickson Andy other surrounding towns have this too
Franklin won’t let them squat there...the cops will pick them up and take them to a mission in Nashville
We desperately need to bring back institutions for crazy folks who wander our streets
Put drug addict and drunk street people in facilities and they will quit their crap
They want to be on the street
It’s a damn nuisance
And this from someone who routinely helps them
Been going on for at least 45 years. Back when I lived there in the 70s, the San Antonio cops used to take bums to the north city limits dump them out, and say, "Austin's that way."
(Warning: soliloquy rant follows) The Austin-American Statesman used to have a jerk, John Kelso, who played the "good ole boy" in his columns, writing about pickup trucks, ugly dogs, Willie Nelson, and other crap. He also came out of the woodwork to blast downtown businesses for being cruel to the "homeless." Downtown, guys used to pee on the storefronts, steal shopping carts, etc. Kelso complained that the stores were cruel to the poor people. Course, the Statesman, where he worked, had a camera guarded parking lot, security guys patrolling the perimeter, and a front desk guard. You weren't allowed in without a badge, and you didn't set foot in their parking lot without being confronted.
They were fine with store owners on 6th street having to hose down their storefronts every day cause people were peeing on it the night before, every grocery store downtown going out of business because of shoplifting and stolen grocery carts, and people not being able to walk down the street without being panhandled.
$50 and A bus ticket to LA.
Just fixed it.
unexpected, right?
Do they have poop on the sidewalks yet? They are not really a big liberal city unless there is poop on the sidewalks.
Austinites used to be proud of their clean beautiful city. They even spent lots of money to put up artificial moonlight pylons to keep the city safe and pretty.
I guess this will also ruin Barton Springs park and pool
Isn’t Austin run by DemoRATS, figures...
Hickory is the hardest wood
Yes, demonrats from the mayor on down to the dogcatcher. It was the idiot mayor who made the ruling allowing the homeless to camp out in front of anyone’s and any business’ front door. Gov. Abbott is angry about it and is trying to put a stop to it but don’t know if he has much say in city stuff.
Some people are worried about diseases they carry. Also, the poo and general filth which will bring rodents. Austin is the San Francisco of the South.
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