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Leading Off (2/4/21)
The stench of urine makes facts hard to follow.
By Kathy Wise
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FrontBurner
February 4, 2021
4:39 am
Dallas City Council Considers Code Amendments to Crack Down on Panhandlers. Nobody likes urine in the median, but that’s about where the clarity and consensus stopped during yesterday’s council briefing. According to the
Dallas Morning News, city staff received 500 complaints about people asking for money last year. Just over half of the complaints came from the city’s four northern districts, although the majority of the incidents occurred along three major thoroughfares in South Dallas (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Samuel Boulevard, and Jim Miller Road) in addition to North Central Expressway and Royal Lane. While council member Cara Mendelsohn claimed that panhandlers were making more money in her district than the $60,000 she does as a council member, city outreach workers reported that most panhandlers are homeless and use th