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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.”
