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Advocates call on North Charleston to address homelessness
VIDEO: Advocates call on North Charleston to address homelessness By Nick Reagan | May 18, 2021 at 3:27 PM EDT - Updated May 18 at 7:19 PM
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Activists are calling on the City of North Charleston to make meaningful strides to tackle the problem of homelessness.
On Tuesday morning, representatives from Walking Women Welfare, Favor Foundation, Five Star Legacy Group, Covenant House of Recovery for Women, and Destiny Café gathered outside the café to demand the city create a more attainable path for those experiencing homelessness to transition back into society.
“I think since we have been standing here just because I know what it looks like, I have seen about five homeless people walk by,” Aquilla Kirk said.
Efforts to help homeless people get out of the criminal justice system and into more social services might get a boost Tuesday night. That’s when the City Council will vote on a proposed $254,000 grant to run a pilot Homeless Court program.
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The money, which comes from a Community Development Block Grant, would run the new Homeless Court through June 30, 2022, and would include the hiring of an additional full-time Homeless Court Coordinator in the City Prosecutor’s office, according to a report to the City Council from Health and Human Services Director Kelly Colopy. The grant funding includes the option to renew the program for three one-year periods.
Caitlyn Jenner sounded off about homeless – by focusing on her plane-owning friend. (Screen capture via Twitter/Fox News)
Caitlyn Jenner sparked controversy Wednesday (5 May) after saying she knows someone who left California because he didn’t want to see people experiencing homelessness.
Jenner let her true colours shine in her first TV interview since announcing her bid to become governor of California.
Rattling off incumbent Gavin Newsom’s “failures”, she said: “My friends are leaving California. My hangar, the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said: ‘Where are you going?’
“And he says: ‘I’m moving to Sedona, Arizona, I can’t take it anymore. I can’t walk down the streets and see the homeless’.”
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Federal prosecutors filed charges against the recently terminated CEO of one of New York’s largest homeless shelter networks. They allege he pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from contractors hired by the nonprofit organization he led for two decades.
These charges were in addition to the sexual abuse and financial impropriety charges that resulted in his firing last month. Victor Rivera, according to the prosecutors, had enriched himself for years.
In the heart of the nation’s financial services capital, in the heart of its homelessness capital, in the heart of someone who professedly cares about the homeless, how do such egregious crimes happen even once, let alone over 10 years without notice?