Not a fan. Especially when my city has become a repository for the homeless and then gets blamed for the issue saying we're the cause of our own problems. And that's without acknowledging that the other towns dumping their homeless here don't have the money or resources or facilities that big cities do. And when those same small towns dumping their homeless here themselves have crime that is even shocking considering their small size.
It happens.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...him-to-austin/
A rural town ran out of resources to help a homeless man. So, they brought him to Austin
by: John Engel
Posted: Apr 7, 2021 / 02:47 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 8, 2021 / 09:28 AM CDT
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Tuesday, the head of Austin’s police union posted a video to social media showing a Giddings Police Department officer dropping someone off at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless.
“That’s just a disgrace,” Austin Police Association President Ken Casaday can be heard saying on the video. “These other counties need to be held accountable and take care of their own folks.”
Giddings is 55 miles east of Austin. The police chief there, Haril Walpole, confirmed to KXAN on Wednesday that, yes, one of his officers brought a man experiencing homelessness to Austin. But that was only after the man’s family turned him away and the town of just over 5,000 ran out of resources to help him.
Like many smaller communities, Giddings doesn’t have the volume of individuals experiencing homelessness to warrant the construction of a shelter and the city doesn’t have the money to build one, anyway.
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Giddings is tiny. 5 square miles with 5,171 people estimated living there in 2020.
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