Residents of a southeast Austin neighborhood say they're seeing a disturbing rise in vandalism, vagrancy and even burglary.
Residents of a southeast Austin neighborhood say they're seeing a disturbing rise in vandalism, vagrancy, and even burglary ever since the Marshalling Yard emergency homeless shelter opened around the corner."It's a pretty friendly neighborhood," Carpenter said. "We have, like, little neighborhood parties and we walk around at night.""It's exhausting, and I do not feel safe, really." Carpenter said.
"We're always trying to balance safety with the most compassionate approach to handling our unhoused neighbors," Velasquez said. "Finding them a home, finding them stability."The Marshaling Yard opened as an emergency shelter in July of last year and was only supposed to operate for a year.
"I want them to have somewhere to sleep that's not outside, right?" Carpenter said. "But the problem is, they are just dumped off into our neighborhood." "If we're having issues in the neighborhood with crime, that is very different than having issues with the Marshall yard just being there," Velasquez said. "And we want to ensure that we are drawing a distinction between those two things."
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