{"id":45958,"date":"2025-11-12T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/45958\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:50:08","slug":"city-of-austin-wraps-up-operation-cleaning-up-homeless-encampments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/45958\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Austin wraps up operation cleaning up homeless encampments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The City of Austin wrapped up its three-week operation to connect the homeless with resources and clear encampments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">During that time, more than 1.3 million pounds of debris and trash were collected and removed along with about 700 campsites in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They have also connected more than 180 people to shelters and nearly 90 others to different resources and services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CFE8EE7AAC9117B3B60E1D1EFF21E4A3.jpg\" alt=\"Abbott orders homeless encampment removals in Austin\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/video\/1727746\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abbott orders homeless encampment removals in Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed state agencies to begin a concerted operation to remove homeless encampments and enforce laws in Austin, citing public safety concerns over &#8220;weapons, needles, and other debris&#8221; littering the city&#8217;s streets and state property.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I want to be clear, it&#8217;s social services, it&#8217;s health care services, it&#8217;s shelter services,&#8221; said City of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson. &#8220;We offer those up. We allow them the opportunity to collect their items.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The City of Austin&#8217;s Homeless Strategies and Operations coordinated these efforts with several city departments, including APD, EMS, Austin Watershed Protection, and Parks and Recreation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;It is important what we do in order to address this issue,&#8221; said Mayor Watson. &#8220;Again, it is not as easy as just saying we&#8217;re going to go out and clear an encampment and then somehow we&#8217;ve done something other than clear that encampment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The following steps for Austin&#8217;s HSO and its partner departments will include transitioning to regular encampment response operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Although the three-week initiative is over, city leaders plan to use the data that they have gathered to build on these efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from interviews conducted by FOX 7 Austin&#8217;s Katie Pratt<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/homeless-crisis\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Homeless Crisis<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The City of Austin wrapped up its three-week operation to connect the homeless with resources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,26704,223,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-45958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-homeless-crisis","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-travis-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45958","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=45958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}