Austin – What is the value of the city in general in the homeland camp every year?
It turns out that the answer is more difficult to discover it without a lot of drilling.
In 2021, Austin’s voters re -banned camping that requires the enforcement of any person in public places.
Since then, the city has spent millions of dollars and cleaned millions of pounds from garbage.
KXan has covered cleaning processes since the embargo came into effect, often covers the same camps that are cleaned over and over again.
“People go out and clean it, then the next week there again,” said Michael, who lives near a homeless camp.
He says he would like to know how much the city spends every year in general and the amount of garbage that is captured, but it may be difficult to find.
In fact, if you want this answer, you should collapse from each section in the city deals with cleaning. There is no information board that displays this information.
“It will be great to be the maximum transparency,” Michael said. “The maximum transparency in the government is a huge feature.”
KXAN asked the city of Austin if there was a system in a place that tracks the amount spent on all cleaning operations.
In an email, a city spokesman KXAN told that the request requires an account of multiple departments and that we need to submit a public information request.
There are many sections of the city of Austin dealing with cleaning operations, but we wanted to know if they have a total number of all departments combined. Do the city know how much they spent in general?
After a few back and forth e -mails with the city, they sent KXAN another email that says the data sent by the city only includes the expenses of resource recovery, Austin and does not include expenses for other departments.
He explains that in the 2024 fiscal year, Austin spent the Recovery resources, which is one of the many departments that help in cleaning, $ 1.8 million on cleaning operations.
Should there be a dashboard to track cleaning costs and how much garbage is cleaned?
KXAN asked the city if he hoped to develop a dashboard.
A spokesman for the city sent us this statement: “The city is not yet ready to talk about the basic information technology painting or developing, but the media will be notified through the press statement when the homeless strategy office is ready to issue an advertisement.”
KXAN got some information from the departments that deal with cleaning, but it is difficult to know the total number, which is why we have come to the city.
The Austin Parks and Entertainment Administration spent about $ 311,000 in 2024 on cleaning and cleaning about 275 tons of garbage.
Pard also shared a list of all the cleaning sites that they went to, in detail the amount of garbage cleaning, and the number of times they went to the camps and where the sites were.
The Water Assembly Protection Department also sent us information after requesting general information. Click here for more information about spending.
For information from the Transport and Public Works Department in Austin, click here.
The questions that we posed to the city
Do you know the city how much it spends in 2024 to clean the homeland camp?
The ARR expenses (Austin Resources) in the fiscal year 2024 to clean the camps were 1,829,464.96 dollars. This number does not include other departments expenses.
Do you know the city how much it spends in 2023 to clean the homeland camp?
ARR expenses in the 2023 fiscal year to clean the camps were 1,773,187.06 dollars. This number does not include other departments expenses.
Do the city know the number of tons of garbage that they cleaned in the homeless camps in 2024?
1720 tons
Do the city know the number of tons of garbage that they cleaned in the homeless camps in 2023?
1528 tons
I saw the city hoped to develop a dashboard. Do you know when it will be available?
“The city is not yet ready to talk about the basic information technology painting or development board, but the media will be notified by the press statement when the homeless strategy office is ready to issue an advertisement.
Shelter space is a problem
In previous reports on Camp Clean Ups, David Gray told the Austin David Gray Strategy Officer that there is a shortage of bed space, which means that no person has a place to go to.
Gray said on any specific night that there could be between 6000 to 6,500 people sleeping in the streets.
The city has invested millions of dollars in what is intended to be temporary shelters, places like Northbridge and Southbridge.
Housing Bridge is a mixture of emergency refuge and transitional housing to serve the targeted population. It features short -term housing and support services, with the aim of helping people achieve self -sufficiency or access the permanent housing options available.
Efforts to add a family to people who are persistent.