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Services. 10 miles is a long ways to walk from the boonies to the homeless shelter, that is if you don't have change for the bus. This is the same reason that small towns typically don't have large homeless populations. They simply don't have the services and resources to deal with them, so those people go to the cities where they are offered. We also have the disadvantage of having good (not cold) weather for months. It's why northern cities have smaller homeless populations. If you think them sleeping on the sidewalk is bad imagine them dead and frozen.
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Hypothetically, would reducing services also reduce the homeless population in Austin?
Also, I thought the massive backlash to the camping ban repeal led to the ban on camping being reinstated by the City Council. What's the current status of that?