House Bill 1925 will ban homeless encampments across the state and require cities to get permission to allow them within city boundaries. However, city leaders and nonprofits say the bill will face some challenges from an enforcement standpoint.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/523326.html (Natural News) A new CHAZ-like tent city has sprung up at Austin City Hall in Texas, and city councilwoman Mackenzie Kelly wants it to be removed.
According to reports, a group of locals has set up shop outside the government facility in protest of a recent vote in which Austinites decided to reinstate a local ban prohibiting camping on public land.
Some area homeless residents are upset about the new rule, so they have brought their machetes and other weapons to Austin City Hall, where they patrol the grounds day and night.
“Today, for the second time, I’ve been harassed and screamed at with obscenities walking out of city hall,” Kelly tweeted. “One of the men had a metal pipe and at least one knife. I do not feel safe, which means others don’t feel safe either. This really needs to be enforced in some way and city leadership is not doing what it needs to protect [sic] its residents.”
How COVID-19 is changing the future of homelessness in the Seattle area
By: Jessie Cohen
and last updated 2021-06-01 12:18:57-04
SEATTLE, Wash. â As COVID-19 worsened throughout 2020, so did homelessness. During a time when preventing the spread of the virus was first priority, it was nearly impossible to shelter people in the same space.
Claudia Balducci, the Chair of the King County Council in Seattle, says COVID-19 changed the cities response to homelessness.
âPeople realized pretty quickly that we couldnât continue to house folks in homelessness in these big congregate shelters where they were sleeping on mats on the floor or bunk beds in a big open room because it was too dangerous. There was too big a risk of transmission of the virus, Balducci said.
Central Florida nonprofit needs plastic bags for volunteer to make mats for homeless
Bags can be dropped off in Winter Garden
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Matthew’s Hope is providing services to Central Florida s homeless population on the go. (News 6)
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – Do you have leftover plastic bags from your latest grocery run? They could help the homeless.
A Central Florida nonprofit that services the homeless has asked for donations of plastic bags so its volunteer can continue to make mats out of them.
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Matthew’s Hope in Winter Garden posted on its Facebook page that Lulu, a volunteer, is out of plastic bags which she uses to make camp pads for the homeless.