Topic: Waller Street

The Austin Health Department headquarters at 15 Waller Street exhibits the same maintenance issues for which it cites private citizens. The facility grounds feature six-inch grass, trash, cigarette butts, and crumbling walls. Observers characterize the department as a "mobster building" that engages in shaking down homeowners while failing to maintain its own public property.

Alex Jones films the exterior of the Austin Health and Human Services building at 15 Waller Street, documenting overgrown weeds and unkempt grounds. He argues that the city's own property is in worse condition than Roland Ellingson's yard, which the city is currently penalizing. Jones uses the visual evidence of six-inch grass and "objectionable material" at the government site to highlight a double standard in code enforcement.