UPDATE ON AUSTIN TX RE 'CAMPING HOMELESS'
I have stated that the present condition in Austin Texas vis a vis homelessness contrasts as well as potentially compares to that of Louisville KY, our rootedly genteely-administered city. In both cases we are facing two left-of-Center Metropolises with a state beyond its borders that is Solid-South Conservative Republican. Austin did vote at the Council level to abet aiding homelessness by decriminalilzing what I (with hope of being utterly non-pejorative) call 'camping homelessness'; a referendum in Austin re-criminalized that 'thrown state' (to use the expression of Martin Heidegger) and the Texas legislature went further by making camping-on-public-land a crime. So I have for information-purposes to our Louisville situation been following Austin's progress in this domain; it is personally edifying, but perhaps to the SolidGOPSouth guys in Texas disturbing that just a few days ago and with revision yesterday, Travis County (say Austin) voted in about $250million...