City staff said between May 11 and June 5, they visited 127 unique encampment sites.<\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 We’re getting a better picture of how homeless encampment sweeps are going in Austin after the city ramped up clearing operations<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n In a memo to the mayor and city council, city staff said between May 11 and June 5, they visited 127 unique encampment sites.<\/p>\n They went to some of them multiple times, and they were able to get 35 people connected with a shelter. Nine other people didn’t accept going to a shelter, but they did get connected to other support services, like behavioral health, housing navigation and case management. Another 44 people were offered help but didn’t accept it.<\/p>\n The city also removed more than 300 tons of debris from those camp sites.<\/p>\n City staff said reports to 311 are the main driving factor for their visits to encampments. The average time from a 311 request to when city staff initially assess a site is about five days.<\/p>\n
The plan, developed by the Austin Homeless Strategies and Operations(HSO) department, calls for a multi-department response. It involves 42 staff members, including personnel from the Austin Police Department (APD), Resource Recovery and outreach teams.<\/p>\n City officials said the goal is to connect people experiencing homelessness with services before clearing encampments. Individuals receive outreach and a 72-hour notice to vacate before crews move in.<\/p>\n A city map<\/a> shows approximate locations of encampments identified for potential sweeps. Several of those sites are near key service providers, raising concerns<\/a> about how displacement could impact access to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City staff said between May 11 and June 5, they visited 127 unique encampment sites. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-363203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA coordinated effort across departments <\/p>\n