How much is city spending on homeless clean up?

AUSTIN (KXAN)— How much is the city spending overall on homeless camp clean up each year?

It turns out that answer is more difficult to find out without a lot of digging.

In 2021, Austin voters reinstated a camping ban that required enforcement of anyone camping in public spaces.

Since then the city has spent millions of dollars and cleaned up millions of pounds of trash.

KXAN has covered clean ups since the ban went into effect, many times covering the same camps being cleaned up over and over again.