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Council, police, and providers confront camp challenge

Editorial: In city runoffs, Viagran and Lopez get the nod May 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Voters wait in line on May 1. It’s almost that time again. Early voting for the runoff election starts Monday.Marvin Pfeiffer /Staff photographer In the field of 12 candidates who hoped to succeed outgoing District 3 Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran, the two making it to the runoff are the ones whose names already are familiar to South Side voters. Phyllis Viagran, the incumbent’s sister, earned 22 percent of the vote in the May 1 general election. Meanwhile, Tomas Uresti, brother of Tax Assessor-Coll...

I had hoped to not need to write again about the hash we have made of our community's attempts to end homelessness, but I did not expect City Hall to whiff so badly in its first at-bat since laying out its strategy to comply with the voters' verdict on Proposition B. Our man Sanders gets to the heart of the policy dilemma and the facts on the ground – the unhoused poor who are living without shelter in Austin's public realm have nowhere else to go. Not much we can do in the next few weeks will truly change this fact.

New data obtained by KSAT 12 from the Bexar County Elections Department showed how each precinct voted on Proposition B.

Demonstrators set up tents outside City Hall on May 3 to protest the passage of Proposition B (Photo by Jana Birchum) The return to the pre-2019 rules on where and how Austin­ites without homes can live in public places, prompted by the victory of Proposition B on May 1, officially took effect Tuesday, May 11. But city leaders made clear that the public encampments in parks and under bridges that fueled the Prop B campaign will not disappear overnight, as they laid out a four-phase plan to ensure a "safe and humane approach." The current phase one, which ends June 12, invo...