Homeless Veteran on the streets of Boston, MA
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You
know when you read something, but then it's so ridiculous you have to
do more research to find out whether it's actually true?
Case in point, a story this week about a South Carolina city which has taken steps to "exile its homeless."
The
story suggested the city council in Columbia, S.C., had unanimously
approved an "emergency homeless response" plan which will ban homeless
people from the central business district and authorize police to arrest
any homeless person found within the no-homeless zone.
A
hotline will be established for residents and merchants to report the
presence of a homeless person to police, who will be obliged to move
them along.
Surely that can't be true, I thought.
Sadly, it is.
The
council of Columbia will partner with a local charity to operate a
24-hour emergency shelter on the outskirts of town, however it's
unlikely the 240-bed shelter will be sufficient for the city's estimated
1,500 homeless people. And once someone enters the shelter, they are
not allowed to leave the premises unless they set up an appointment to
be driven out by a van.
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