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Originally Posted by lio45
Austin’s case makes it pretty clear that there’s a strong correlation between housing prices and homelessness (which isn’t really surprising). More affordable Texas cities have less homeless mostly because they’re affordable, not because of anything special Texas is doing about homelessness.
(I guess you could argue that Texas indirectly helps reduce homelessness by accepting to sprawl like crazy, and that argument would be solid enough, but it’s still indirect.)
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Not really. Houston is far less lenient on encampments and has had a better system of getting the homeless off the street and into shelters. Austin is more liberal than Houston or Dallas (already liberal) thus more tolerant and even accommodating to the visible homelessness population. Where I live, as soon as someone finds a tent in the trails, they call in HPD and they are quickly removed.
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