Unveiled Footage Exposes Devastation Of Austin Texas's Premier Trail As Concealed Homeless Camps Take Over

Written By BlabberBuzz | Saturday, 10 June 2023 09:30 AM
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Unveiled Footage Exposes Devastation Of Austin Texas's Premier Trail As Concealed Homeless Camps Take Over

Jamie Hammonds, an investigative filmmaker and founder of Documenting Austin’s Streets and Homeless (DASH), has brought attention to the homeless problem in Austin, Texas, and its impact on greenbelt areas.

Hammonds shared videos on Twitter on Wednesday, showing a homeless encampment in the Violet Crown Trail that had been neglected for a year. The videos depict piles of trash, cars, trailers, mountains of garbage, needles, human waste, and hundreds of homeless people. Hammonds blamed city officials for exacerbating the problem, arguing that city policies have pushed people experiencing homelessness into greenbelt areas, out of the public’s view. Consequently, many city dwellers are unaware of the problem.

"The problem’s there, it’s just that people can’t see it. They don’t realize how many people are actually in the woods," he said.

Hammonds, who has experienced homelessness himself, clarified that he was not out to shame the less fortunate but to keep pressure on city officials to provide them with shelter and services to help them get off the streets. He lamented the trail’s damage, noting that the "Crown Jewel of Austin" and greenspaces like it, made people forget they were in an urban area.

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"It's destroyed. It will never be the same," Hammonds tweeted. A real-estate agent concurred, saying the "environmental damage from these camps is immense."

Hammonds reported that there are probably 300 people living in the woods, and their trail has been decimated and completely destroyed with trash. "You can smell these places in the summertime. These large homeless camps. The trash and stuff that’s going up," he told Fox News Digital.

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Hammonds’ videos have brought attention to the unseen impact of homelessness on greenbelt areas in Austin, Texas. His aim is to keep pressure on city officials to provide shelter and services to help the homeless get off the streets.

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