Let's talk about the homelessness in Austin

[kyletxria1911a1]

I moved here in 95 I was homeless for a year I slept under the 360 bridge ladybird lake bull creek. I was blessed to have a car to sleep in but I always had a job.
Back in those times being homeless was not glamorous period. It wasn't a scourge but it wasn't nothing like Today.

I have a hard time finding compassion for them these days. Back then you had to have some want to Today not so much.
I really don't think Austin should spend that much money on this.
They are making way to easy today

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

The ones that want to overcome adversities can do so.
Others just want to live off everyone else and pity themselves.

 

[DoubleDuty]

A lot are mentally ill. And there is no money to treat them

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

A lot are mentally ill. And there is no money to treat them

BUT plenty to give illegals and invaders.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

A lot are mentally ill. And there is no money to treat them

No sir those aren't the ones I am talking about I'm talking about the lazy asses

 

[DoubleDuty]

BUT plenty to give illegals and invaders.

Yep, that's probably right

 

[baboon]

There always has been The Free Shit Army and always will be one on the future. Divide & concur! The haves & the have nots!

 

[pronstar]

Money for the homeless seldom reaches the homeless.

Just one example:
Who is being helped with $130k metal utility sheds that anyone can buy for under a grand at Home Depot? And aren’t even permanent?

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[kyletxria1911a1]

There always has been The Free Shit Army and always will be one on the future. Divide & concur! The haves & the have nots!

Ya know how to close that GAP?
GO TO WORK

 

[TreyG-20]

I saw a cute one the other day. No way that chick was homeless for any other reason than on purpose. Someone probably gave her a home. Cough Sterling... she was white. Cough 183 and Burnet.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

I saw a cute one the other day. No way that chick was homeless for any other reason than on purpose. Someone probably gave her a home. Cough Sterling... she was white. Cough 183 and Burnet.

 

[Sam7sf]

I moved here in 95 I was homeless for a year I slept under the 360 bridge ladybird lake bull creek. I was blessed to have a car to sleep in but I always had a job.
Back in those times being homeless was not glamorous period. It wasn't a scourge but it wasn't nothing like Today.

I have a hard time finding compassion for them these days. Back then you had to have some want to Today not so much.
I really don't think Austin should spend that much money on this.
They are making way to easy today

You kept a car and had a job. You were never homeless just had a hard time. A lot of homeless don’t want to change.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

I saw a cute one the other day. No way that chick was homeless for any other reason than on purpose. Someone probably gave her a home. Cough Sterling... she was white. Cough 183 and Burnet.

She was most likely working the streets for a pimp to take her panhandling dough. And drive off in a new car.

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

There is a panhandler that I have helped in Austin. Riverside Drive at I-35 southbound. I have given him a couple of bucks because I forget and do not carry beers - "Not hungry - Just need beer."

 

[WarBaby]

My favorite part about Austin is watching the skyline slowly get smaller and smaller in my rearview mirror.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Put a bounty on em and watch how quickly they disappear!

 

[rotor]

Homeless is a person evicted from their home because they are broke. Those people need help. Bums and drug addicts are not homeless. Almost always nothing helps them.

 

[Texasjack]

Back in the 80's the Hollywood folks were raising hell about people locked up in mental institutions. States started looking into the situation and the legislators suddenly realized that they could play "hero" by shutting down those institutions and thus free up millions of dollars for them to waste on coke and whores.

If you remember the movie "Awakenings" with Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro, it was based on a book by a real doctor, Oliver Saks. A few years after the movie, New York shut down the mental hospital and Saks was out of work.

So where did the patients go? To the streets. And, lucky for them, that's about the time that crack and meth flooded the drug scene. Cheap drugs, easily available, and no place to send you if people got tired of you peeing on the sidewalk, it was the perfect cesspool.

 

[Moonpie]

You can bet your ass the liberals and Karens that piss and moan about doing something about the homeless do so from their whitebread gated communities.
Where,ta-da, there aren’t any homeless.
Typical NIMBY horseshit.
If UberLib Karen had to walk her designer dog thru human feces choked sidewalks it would sound a lot different.

 

[Fletcherjl]

From my perspective of working in Austin and our location being entirely too close to an overpass tent city I will say they are a constant nuisance. One morning 2 of them were in the middle of the street fighting. Add the homeless to APD understaff issues and you have the perfect recipe for a shit show.