House Bill 1925 will ban homeless encampments across the state and require cities to get permission to allow them within city boundaries. However, city leaders and nonprofits say the bill will face some challenges from an enforcement standpoint.
Posted By Katie Hennessey on Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM click to enlarge Katie Hennessey Volunteers take part in San Antonio s 2019 Point-In-Time Count. Every January, volunteers from homeless organizations across the country comb their cities to tally their number homeless residents. It s called a Point-In-Time Count, or PIT Count. Due to dangerous COVID-19 infection levels this year, many of those organizations including the San Antonio Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH) cancelled their PIT Counts of unsheltered individuals. A separate count of people in shelters, reported by local agencies, will take place as usual, however. Katie Vela, SARAH s executive director, said the cancellation of the unshelter