“The Columbia City Council in South Carolina has unanimously approved a new plan, the “Emergency Homeless Response,” that seeks to remove homeless people from the downtown area.
The initiative, which was started by Councilman Cameron Runyan, will consist of police officers — who patrol the city center — enforcing the city’s “quality of life” laws, including bans on loitering, public urination and other violations.
In addition, officers will be instructed to keep homeless people out of the city’s center. If the homeless refuse to leave, they could be arrested.
The city will partner with a local charity to keep an emergency shelter located on the outskirts of the city open 24 hours a day. The shelter in question has the capacity to hold up to 240 guests at a time. Once at the shelter homeless people won’t be allowed to leave the premises.
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I don't understand the problem, you have a group of people who built a city, town, community etc., they pay taxes and become productive. They support the homeless, feed them, clothe them, the homeless then multiply and require more and more services and benefits (which of course are a "right"), crime goes up, property values go down. Where does my responsibility for someone else end? If they are not mentally competent don't we put them in a sanitarium? They are being given a shelter with all the bene's included. If that is not acceptable why don't they just roll on down the road? What is making them stay?
ReplyDeleteYour extended family and/or friends should do the helping as before. When I drove a cab in San Clemente, the police would stop people who looked as though they were tramps and if they didn't have a certainly amount of money on them, they would be escorted to the bus station where the city paid for a trip out of town.
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