We moved away from Austin in 2015 after 20 years there. We’d witnessed the transition of the old “Slackers” era Austin into a corporate place of mixed use housing where all the cool music venues had been turned into condos. We visited last year and noted to our horror that literally everywhere we looked form the 183 / Burnet overpass to the City Hall was desperate camps of homeless people.
Something’s gotta change. There’s no excuse for the richest city in the richest state in the richest nation being so threadbare and hard-up. I’m an old-school ‘eat the rich’ sorta guy, but in this case I’m advocating for Bernie-style redistribution of wealth.
