I moved to Austin just about when Garza was elected. As far as the homelessness goes it's worse in many ways. It may not be Garza's fault though. One of the other correlated changes was routine breakup of large homeless camps. This seems to have caused many homeless to aimlessly wander around far beyond where they might've wandered before. It makes everywhere feel less safe rather than a few places.

Our last office also had a corner with a drug gang running it with police passing by several times a day and never acting on it. Someone was killed outside my office window, but the corner might've been that way before Garza came into office.