Altamonte Springs proposes ordinance to punish homelessness
According to this article, Altamonte Springs seemingly has issues with a single homeless person, so they are proposing an ordinance to punish all those who are homeless and may encounter certain public spaces. Other articles suggest this issue is broader with general homelessness growing and requiring a solution.
While the City seems to provide shelter space for many homeless, seasonal transience overwhelms what they can do. It isn’t clear if the City has a demographic profile of the homeless within their community. A survey of this population and a breakdown of causes could shed light on how many homeless were living this way due to drug addiction, economic hardship, loss of support structure, mental illness, SORR and other reasons.
With this analysis, it might also help understand if the city or county is actually causing a significant component of the homeless issues due to SORR ordinances. If that were the case, this would be a double bind for persons forced to register with housing insecurity. Those folks could be told by one city or county office to go live somewhere and are then told by another local government agency that living there is illegal.
Let’s hope there is deep enough thought and analysis into this proposed ordinance to not cause more harm and create unintended consequences.
Did anyone see on fox website the new law passed that states small cities officials have to make public how much money they make and all business deals and a bunch quit. They as government employees state that doing so puts them,family and business in danger as in safety by making it public… how is it dangerous for them but not for us and ours is 100 times worse. I emailed the link to fac about it