Here is our press statement from earlier this week:

For Immediate Release

Save Austin Now Responds to City’s Public Camping Ban Enforcement Plan

60 Days for Full Enforcement is ‘Slap in the Face’ of 58% Majority of Austin Voters
 

AUSTIN, TX — Today nonpartisan nonprofit Save Austin Now issued a statement in response to the city’s enforcement plan for the public camping ban that was reinstated by a strong majority of Austin voters on May 1st:
 
Save Austin Now co-founders Matt Mackowiak and Cleo Petricek released the following statement after final passage:
 
“It took just ten days to enforce the ridiculous public camping ordinance that took effect July 1, 2019. Why does full enforcement of the public camping ban require 60 days? The camping ban was in effect for 23 years; it should not require 60 days to put it back in place and restore public safety and public health to our city. Residents, small business owners, visitors, and Austinites who visit our city parks should not have to wait two more months before this public camping disaster is fixed once and for all. The will of the voters was clear. Nearly 91,000 Austinites voted to reinstate the public camping ban, over the strenuous opposition of the Mayor and nine of ten City Council members. We want the homeless to be in safe and sheltered locations so they can receive services. This wasn’t happening under the public camping ordinance. The city has had two years to address this problem and all they have done is make it worse, while wasting $161 million with almost no new homeless housing to show for it. Disrespecting the will of the voters in this way is a ‘slap in the face’ of the nearly 91,000 Austinites who demand their city become safe and clean again for everyone.”
 
To learn more about Save Austin Now, please visit http://www.SaveAustinNow.com.
 
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We must continue the fight to save our city!

Thank you!

-Matt Mackowiak
Co-founder, Save Austin Now

> Questions? Email matt@saveaustinnow.com
> Learn more: http://www.SaveAustinNow.com