AUSTIN (KXAN) —  For months KXAN has been telling you about a homeless encampment in southeast Austin that has posed a problem to people living nearby. The camp is filled with trash, people openly use and sell drugs and there are open fires. "It is horrible," said a woman driving by. "I am even afraid to drive through here at night." Last week KXAN stopped by to find more people and trash piling up on the property, so we reached out to the city. "I have had outreach staff go to the property to see if anyone at the property is willing to take us up for offers on shelter, but no one yet has taken us up yet on that offer," said city of Austin Homeless Strategy Officer David Gray when we talked to him last week. On Friday, KXAN sat down with Council member Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes who represents the area to get an update. City councilwoman responds to growing homeless encampment concerns "We have heard from district two constituents who have reached out about health and safety concerns about the Bluff Springs encampment," Fuentes said. She said efforts to clean up the camp and get people into shelter continues, but with the property being private it's making it hard to move quickly. "I just got an update from our homeless and strategy office this week that about 21 individuals have been connected to emergency shelter as of this week," Fuentes said. KXAN stopped by the property shortly after the interview with Fuentes and found there were a lot less people, but there were still a handful that are still there. South Austin homeless camp drawing concerns as drug use, open fires continue The trash and tents remain on the site as well. "We have a property owner that has been unresponsive to outreach attempts by the city and the city has issued a demand letter today," Fuentes said. "That [demand letter] will ask the property owner to do three things. That they put up a fence to secure the site, that they clean up the site and that they remove the debris that is currently there as well as they issue a no trespassing notice." Fuentes said the city does put liens on a property when large amounts of money are spent for clean up. "We want property owners who are responsive to the needs of the neighborhood," Fuentes said. "And the other issue we have here is here is another example of an out of state LLC who is not being responsive to the local community." Fuentes posted that she will have a District 2 community conversation on Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 7:30 pm at Meanwhile Brewing, 3901 Promontory Point Drive. ...read more read less