Ordinances that limit "providing food to homeless" is on the rise

ByDaniellehelm

Although the homeless population of the whole country is decreasing,Increase in some cities such as Silicon ValleyAnd it is still a big problem. There are many organizations that provide meals to homeless people as charitable activities, but municipal administration has stopped this movement.

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Provide support for homeless peopleThe National Coalition for the HomelessAccording to a report released by the National Hockey League (NCH), since 2013, 21 cities passed a regulation aimed at restricting the provision of food to homeless, and cities to which the ordinance drafts were not passed are raised to 10 cities It is said that this is an increase of 47% compared with 2010.

Fort Lauderdale city in Florida is also one of the cities where the regulations were passed. In providing food to homeless people in the city by the new regulations, it is necessary for each offering place to be separated by 500 feet (about 150 meters) or more and further providing only one place for each block When it came to not be goodSun SentinelReported.

ByDavid Blackwell.

Michael Stoops, manager of NCH, said about the move as described above "Each city feels that sightseeing and economic growth must be prioritized, providing foods that are widely done in public spaces "I thought that the ordinance would promote the seriousness of the homeless problem and the criminalization of the homeless. Even if we can pursue homeless on a surface by the ordinance, it will not solve the problem of "the homeless is born" itself.

There are two trends in the regulations that have been submitted and passed recently. One is concerning the provision of food using public spaces as mentioned above and the other is about the safety of food. In the city of Salt Lake, which defines the latter ordinance, the person preparing food became permission system.

In addition to municipal administration,NIMBYThere are pressure from the residents who say "Not In My Back Yard / other than my own backyard", that is, "You can accept the necessity of the facility but not build in your residence area".

ByLynne Hand

However, while there are people who oppose the provision of food to homeless from the perspective of profit, it is Robert Mahbut who interacts with the municipality about the homeless problem to oppose it from another perspective. "The act of providing food on the street is one of the worst behaviors that keeps them homeless, a futile act of purging them out of the recovery program to get out of homeless," Mr. Mutt said.

Mr. Mutto suggests that only food is offered in the vicinity of the facility such as vocational return service. The purpose is to reestablish homeless people who only ask for food on that day.

There are obvious options for acting food not in the street but in the room with air conditioning, but it is not necessarily that homeless people are seeking food in the room, "the best is the location where the homeless people are located It is to do offering, "Mr. Stoops says.

ByCorrado Alisonno