The South Austin encampment where Tony Carter, 66, had called home for six months was targeted in a homeless encampment abatement operation in January. Carter, seen here in Austin on April 15, now sleeps under a Southwest Austin bridge. (Sam Stark/Austin Current)
On a January afternoon, Tony Carter returned from work to a South Austin encampment he had called home for six months, only to find much of his and his friend’s belongings gone.
“I was devastated,” Carter, 66, recalled. “Even though it was a tent, it’s still a house … That was my house. They took my house.”…