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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy
It's amazing that when there is a good proposition to help the homeless there is pushback. There should be more development companies coming out to help.
We will see how reinstating some of the camping ban actually changes much because even before all of this came into effect, there were homeless sleeping in doorways and other areas along sidewalks DT and there were homeless coming up asking people for money or food outside of Royal Blue Grocery on 3rd. In my area there was already a large homeless camp at the intersection of Manchaca and Ben White under and around the overpass of 290/71. That won't change and I doubt we will see police do much to enforce the ban because I didn't see much if any enforcement before.
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I think there was enforcement before it was just not the "we are taking you to jail" type, which is why I ignore the hysterics from the extremists on the council. From an article on the downtown before the change in ordinance:
"officers interacted with more than 8,000 people violating the solicitation, camping, and sit-lie ordinances. Of those interactions, 98% of the time, people voluntarily complied with officers’ requests to change their behavior — so no citation was issued."
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